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      "body": "Hello everyone. If you follow me on notes, you will know that I have been talking about this already. Now that I am able to sit down, I wanted to make a longer format rant about the H1B debate that has raged over Christmas.\n\nFor those of you who don’t follow me on notes, the long story short is that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, Trump’s DOGE heads, came out with multiple posts on X about how we need H1B workers in the technology sector. Most of these H1B workers would be from India.\n\nNow, you might be thinking, Oceanus, what is the problem here? H1B is legal immigration. Why wouldn’t we want talented people working in our technology sector? To that I say there is a problem because I am a nationalist who believes that we should be using American talents as we have historically.\n\nMy criticism of illegal immigration has been straightforward. It creates a massive foreign underclass that demographically changes the United States and takes work away from our people. 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These elites will be more influential in policymaking as they will be embedded in a key sector of the economy, technology.\n\nWhile this influx of foreign talent may seem good in the short term, in the long term it will turn out just as it has with mass migration, only this time we will have an issue from the top of society rather than from the bottom.\n\nAmerican talent will have a harder time competing for jobs in the technology sector as the H1B class is embedded into the power structure. The H1B class will continue advocating for the further importation of H1B talent.\n\nMusk and Ramaswamy received massive pushback from the American right-wing on this issue. I would still have disagreed with them, but I think they would have received less of the reaction they had gotten had they not posted stuff like this:\n\n\n![image.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmY8aU11ujZG2jHgcWRxZWusT9oK1bvnZb52UifEu4sCZD/image.png)\n\n\n![image.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmXAGhJq4SzpU2sCRYcY5ENGHw1gqMQXsry8fQCpDsXLXF/image.png)\n\n\n\nInsulting Americans for having misgivings about more foreign labor (of a different kind) coming into the country was not the way to go. It makes them look bad and it also makes President Trump look bad.\n\nOne of the biggest reasons that Donald Trump got elected a second time in the first place was because of massive amounts of foreign labor coming into the country. Even if that backlash was technically against illegal immigration, that doesn’t mean that replacing American jobs legally is good either.\n\nThis isn’t some novel idea either. In multiple instances throughout our history, the United States put restrictions on legal immigration. The Naturalization Act of 1790 restricted immigration to free white persons of good character. The Naturalization Act of 1795 increased the naturalization period of required residence in the US from two to five years.\n\nMind you the above examples are clearly very out of date, but we have had numerous legislation on the immigration issue since then. The point is that America has sovereignty over our borders, whether anyone likes it or not.\n\nForgive my ignorance, it is just difficult to understand as to why Americans always seem to have to be reliant on others to get a job done. We didn’t become a superpower through H1B or illegal immigration.\n\nIf there is a problem with the American education system (which there are many) to the point that we aren’t producing enough people who can do these technology sector jobs, shouldn’t we instead strive to fix the education system where it is lacking?\n\nThis wouldn’t just be a benefit for us, this would be a benefit to India as well. If we take most of India’s best and brightest, what does that leave India? Wouldn’t we want India to have a thriving economy? The same applies to the rest of the third world that suffers from brain drain as their best and brightest come here for work.\n\nAlso, regarding to the rebuttal of Wernher von Braun being German and advancing our rocketry well beyond where it would have been, I would argue that Von Braun was, to put it frankly, a spoil of war. I’m pretty certain that Von Braun would have gladly stayed in Germany had history gone differently.\n\nThe bottom line is this: America is not an international shopping mall or economic zone. We are a people, a culture, not an internationalist launchpad for capitalism, socialism or whatever ideology revolving around internationalist aims. It is about time that our government starts acting like it.\n\nThe sovereignty of the American nation is not negotiable. The breaches of our sovereignty by foreign interests has only gotten us into debt, war, and economic and social decline. When one takes in the world, suddenly the world becomes our business.\n\nI’m not saying that I am now anti-Elon. Despite being horrible on this issue, he still has good ideas and vision for American technological and interstellar advancement. 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In a sense of self-preservation, the neoliberal powers started to put money and material into the Ukrainian war machine at the expense of their own citizens.\n\nAt the same time, despite their initial victory lap after Covid, inflation was on the rise. The prices of everyday necessities started rising to unsustainable amounts. People who would normally be considered well off started feeling economic pain.\n\nTo add to this pressure, increased uncontrolled mass immigration led to demographic displacement and wages being driven down as illegal migrants happily worked for cheap. First World citizens were suddenly burdened with the costs of an influx of more people than the social safety net could manage.\n\nThe response of the neoliberal consensus was not to provide relief for the people. The response was for the people to suck it up. This increasingly condescending attitude from the governments who were supposed to look after their people led to a massive backlash in the form of the anti-incumbent waves we have seen over the past two years.\n\nThe major players of the 2020s, France, Germany, the United States, Britain, Japan, South Korea, Canada, etc. Have all faced some sort of backlash from voters as discontent increased.\n\nTwo years ago, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was voted in due to anti-incumbent sentiment. Ironically, he himself may be voted out of office due to his actions as incumbent and subsequent martial law declaration.\n\nOver the summer, Emmanuel Macron of France saw his parliamentary majority slimmed down by the combined efforts of the French Left and Right. While it has not been enough to throw him out of office, he has been forced to deal with a minority government which has already gone through two Prime Ministers.\n\nMacron, elected in 2017, has been the face of European neoliberalism for the past 8 years. Despite his low approval ratings, he has been able to etch out a win in nearly every subsequent Presidential election due to the two-round system and the opposition’s disagreements.\n\nWhile his position is not in any immediate danger, his governing abilities have been hampered by the parliamentary chaos that has engulfed France over the summer of 2024. Should his majority be outright lost in future elections, Macron will be defanged.\n\nThe summer of 2024 also saw the landslide election loss of the British Conservative Party. The Conservatives, who had been in the majority since 2010, governed as the typical neoliberal party and failed to really conserve anything at all.\n\nWhile there had been times over the late 2010s where it looked as if the Conservatives would face a loss, especially with left-wing firebrand Jeremy Corbyn leading Labour, these losses never materialized. Jeremy Corbyn was later replaced by more moderate Labour leader Keir Starmer.\n\nThat loss finally materialized in the summer of 2024. Labour under Starmer swept to victory, less on their own merits and more on the failings of the Conservatives. As someone on the right, I personally find Starmer to be a less impressive man than Jeremy Corbyn was, but he happened to be in the right position at the right time.\n\nDespite the win for Labour, they are not at all popular. Keir Starmer is more of a Tony Blair style Labour politician as compared to Jeremy Corbyn, who was more akin to Bernie Sanders in the United States, had Sanders led a major party.\n\nThe Starmer government has not really done anything revolutionary that would be needed to improve the lot of the British people. They have kept the Conservative’s foreign policy in regards to Ukraine.\n\nMass migration is still occurring, although Starmer has apparently said that mass migration was the fault of the Conservatives, indicating that he sees it as a problem. However, at the moment it is just words. Good on him for acknowledging the problem, but it doesn’t matter if he doesn’t do anything about it.\n\nAs a result of this duopoly, Labour themselves may be swept out of power in the next elections if they do not do something revolutionary. British politics will become like America, where they vote in one party, nothing changes, then vote in the other party next election, rinse and repeat.\n\nThen came America. The ruling Democratic Party had sought to avoid an anti-incumbent wave by swapping out Joe Biden for Kamala Harris at the eleventh hour. While our propaganda press gave the illusion of this working, it ended up failing.\n\nDonald Trump swept all the swing states needed to win, and then some. Kamala Harris failed to flip any counties, the first for a candidate since Herbert Hoover and his landslide loss to Franklin Delano Roosevelt.\n\nThe Republican Party swept both chambers of Congress and are set to enter government in 2025 with a trifecta of legislative, judicial, and executive authority. On top of this, Trump also won the popular vote, a first for a Republican since 2004.\n\nTrump has promised revolutionary change, from our immigration system to the way our executive branch operates, as well as drastic purges of the federal bureaucracy. Should he succeed, the American government will never be the same again.\n\nThis was in contrast to the message sent by Harris and Biden’s campaign, which was one of stagnation and normalcy. The problem is, people weren’t liking the Biden/Harris stagnation and normalcy. They were elected in 2020 with the promise to return the adults to the room, but the adults ended up being out of touch and stubborn.\n\nThe Democratic Party, who had long prided themselves on being the party of the working man, discarded the working class in favor of marginalized groups such as transgenders and illegal aliens. The wealthy, who they used to shun, ended up agreeing with them on nearly every issue.\n\nRust Belt Rick working at the factory for low wages watched as the party which his family traditionally supported raised his taxes and allowed mass amounts of people in who would work for cheap while outsourcing his job in the name of free trade. To make matters worse, the money that was taken from Rick would be used to house people who came illegally.\n\nNow, we need to be careful here. The Republican Party without Trump is your typical neoliberal party, and was responsible for ushering in the neoliberal consensus in the first place. Never underestimate the willingness of the Republican old guard to metaphorically shoot themselves to prevent Trump from delivering on his agenda.\n\nThen we have the Germans. Olaf Scholz, the Social Democratic Party of Germany’s Chancellor who came in after Angela Merkel, suffered an embarrassment as their coalition partner, the Free Democratic Party, left the coalition in November, putting them in minority status.\n\nScholz, another Starmer style Tony Blair “socialist,” initially created a coalition between the SDP, FDP, and the German Greens. They ended up in power during the Russian SMO in Ukraine and decided that they would throw everything and the kitchen sink into it.\n\nIronic, considering the Greens are traditionally anti-war, yet the foreign minister, a Green, is probably one of the most rabid war hawks I have ever seen. What a betrayal of your base! Is it any wonder why Chancellor Scholz is now receiving a vote of no confidence? Elections are set to be held in February. I hope the AFD wins.\n\nThis brings me to the magnum opus of today’s piece: Canada. Justin Trudeau has been in office since 2015. Winning on a liberal platform and name recognition from his father, who had been Prime Minister himself.\n\nThe Liberals, being based in a relatively liberal country like Canada, had seen success over success in the part decade. The election of Donald Trump allowed them to fearmonger their way to power, seeing themselves as the bulwark against Trumpist populism in Canada.\n\nNot anymore though. Despite Trump’s victory, recent polling still has the Liberal Party losing in a landslide to the Canadian Conservatives. Even Canadians have seemed to have enough of their leadership.\n\nThe Canadian Conservatives aren’t revolutionaries like the Trump, they are liberal in their own right, but it says a lot considering how despite being painted as Trump apologists, the Canadian public doesn’t seem to care.\n\nAnti-incumbency has gotten so bad for the neoliberal consensus that they have even begun to do away with the concept of fair elections entirely. In Romania, insurgent candidate Călin Georgescu won against neoliberal candidate Elena Lasconi.\n\nAs a result of this, the Romanian Supreme Court annulled the results of the first round of the election. Weird how the supposed protectors of democracy protect democracy by outlawing it when they don’t like the results.\n\nIn Georgia, they kicked out their French-Born EU shill President, who is also refusing to accept the results of their election. Hold on people, I thought refusing to accept the results of an election was bad? Or is it only bad when Donald Trump does it?\n\nSo what does all of this tell us? It tells us that the neoliberal consensus which has ruled for decades is starting to come crumbling down and has indicated that they won’t go quietly. That it is not their fault for the ills of society but the fault of the people for pointing it out.\n\nThe only country in the First World that operates under the neoliberal consensus and has managed to avoid this fallout is Japan. The Liberal Democratic Party (despite the name, being their conservative party) has consistently been dominant for years and will probably be dominant into the future.\n\nI would argue that this is because the issues in Japan are an entirely different sort than the issues plaguing the rest of the First World. There is no unfiltered mass migration into Japan and the country is homogenous. Fringe issues like wokeism don’t really have mainstream appeal either.\n\nConclusion\n\nI believe that all of this is poetic justice. The neoliberal consensus prided themselves on being the winners of the Cold War, the vanguard of democracy, and are being voted out democratically because they failed to adapt to the times and said that the problems plaguing people aren’t actually a big deal.\n\nIf there is anything I hate most, it is snarky condescending people who think that they are invincible. The neoliberal consensus became that exact concept over the past two decades. 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I don’t believe that we even should be involved in the Middle East in the first place, but since we are, the urgency at which our government displayed an insistence that Assad must fall is puzzling and makes nearly no sense from a strategic point of view.\n\nBefore the Civil War started in 2011-2012, Syria was one of the most stable Middle Eastern countries. The Assad government had kept the lid on radical Islamic terrorism since the beginning of the Syrian Arab Republic in the mid-20th century.\n\nThat changed with the onset of the Civil War. The Assad Government, weakened, had no way of stopping elements of these radicals from joining up with radical Islamists in already destabilized Iraq to form what came to be known as ISIS.\n\nISIS, which was considered to be our number one foe during the mid-2010s, ended up expanding to the point where it looked as if they would actually annex Iraq and Syria. This ended up changing from 2017 onwards when Trump allowed the military to destroy them by any means necessary.\n\nDuring the ISIS onslaught, the Assad government was actively helping to fight the terrorist threat. After all, Syrian territory had been declared as part of the Caliphate. It was in his best interest to destroy the group.\n\nYet despite this, the United States didn’t miss any opportunity to screw the Assad government over. Instead of doing the logical thing and teaming up to combat terrorism, the US took every opportunity to cripple the Syrian state’s capabilities.\n\nI understand why. The US already had given funds and weapons to the Syrian opposition. We Americans don’t like feeling like we wasted money. We had already invested in a side, even if we didn’t fully understand who was in the side we were invested in.\n\nWith the collapse of ISIS, the situation had looked like it stabilized despite the Civil War still ongoing. The SAR held the majority of territory and was, by all means, the internationally recognized government of Syria. This period of stalemate held until last week, when rebel forces took over Damascus.\n\nIt is important to understand that the Syrian opposition isn’t a monolith and that there is a variety of competing groups that will be trying to take the throne in the coming months. I would also argue that this is not the end of the Civil War but the beginning of a stage without the Assad government.\n\nAs of now, there is an interim government led by a transitional Prime Minister named Mohammad al-Bashir, a member of the Tahrir al-Sham group, a Sunni Islamist Paramilitary. Oh joy.\n\nTheir military leader, Abu Mohamad al-Julani, is the second Emir of this group. He had ties to Al-Qaeda and was arrested by American forces in 2006. In 2013, he was listed as a specially designated global terrorist by the US state department.\n\nJulani has said that he has reformed himself, but gee, that is quite the background for someone who is apparently now a moderate rebel. That’s like putting a reformed bank robber as Secretary of the Treasury, like okay bro.\n\nAs I said, it is going to take a couple months before we fully understand the direction that the new Syrian state will take but given these interesting characters that have currently found themselves in power, I am not optimistic.\n\nIn the meantime, foreign nations have wasted no time in looting the corpse of the collapsed country. Israel has declared the Golan Heights as formally Israeli since all treaties with the Assad government are now void. On top of this, they have even launched a land grab beyond the Golan Heights, nearing the Damascus area.\n\nIsrael and the US have even been running aerial bombardment campaigns against military assets in Syria that aren’t Russian, astounding the rebels who had been under the impression that the US and Israel were partners in the efforts to depose Assad.\n\nLong story short, aside from whatever weapons and manpower that the Syrian rebels hold, the country of Syria is pretty much defenseless from any form of attack from Israel and America. We can also assume that Ba’athism (secular pan-Arabic socialism espoused by the Assad government) is dead from now on.\n\nThe future is now uncertain for Syrian Christians, who had been protected under the Ba’athist government, and Alawites, a minority group which the Assad family comes from and elevated during their years in power.\n\nWhile I have made it no secret that I would have preferred it had the Assad government stayed in power, all I can do now is hope that these supposedly reformed Jihadists are true to their word and govern the country in a way that provides stability.\n\nHowever, this cannot happen if the American and Israeli bombardments and land grabs do not stop. Your supposed enemy is dead. Why are you beating a dead horse? Do you want the Syrian territories to be an anarchic wasteland forever? Wouldn’t it be better for our national security if it wasn’t?\n\nThis schizophrenic policy of deposing governments and then being surprised when an explosion of terror groups erupts from the ashes is quite annoying, to say the least. You would have thought that we would have learned our lesson from Iraq and Afghanistan, but nope.\n\nNow it is on to the monitoring stage. I shall be keeping an eye on developments in Syria, whether good or bad.",
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      "body": "![2024 electoral map.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmS5e53qHkYGtmkWw9YM6Po11guAEW563GL8vhgtJELyV6/2024%20electoral%20map.jpg)\n\nWell, it happened, everybody. Donald Trump won the 2024 United States Presidential election. Not only did he win it with 312 electoral votes, he also won the popular vote as well. Something that liberals assured me wasn’t possible in this day and age. \n\nI have spent the last couple of days unwinding and relaxing. I was up all night on Tuesday, and when Pennsylvania finally fell to the crimson tide, it felt like a giant weight had suddenly lifted off of my shoulders. \n\nYou know, the funny thing is that I had predicted for months that Trump would win with 312 electoral votes. I was laughed at and mocked, but I never once changed my prediction. Well, guess who is laughing now? \n\nI never bought the spin that the media was pulling on the election, that somehow, Kamala Harris was more popular and would outrun Hillay Clinton and Joe Biden. That this attorney from San Francisco would do well in the rust belt.\n \nI never bought the outrageous polls released by the likes of hacks such as Anne Selzer and Nate Silver, nor did I buy into the subjective application of Mr. Thirteen Keys Alan Lichtman (wonder how he’s doing, lol). \n\nI did buy into the general sentiment that was going through the American population. The economic uncertainty, the lawlessness at the border, the insanity of gender politics, and a political and media class who prefers to talk down to you for daring to raise these concerns. \nI tell you what, to see all of these hacks and people who refused to listen for four years get absolutely wrecked on Tuesday was so satisfying. I would argue that it was even more satisfying than 2016, as now all their lawfare and other obstacles that they put in front of Trump completely failed. \n\nWe have won a great battle. A battle that the ruling class was assured that they would win. However, just as in 2016, the war has just begun. Our opponents will not go quietly into the night. Donald Trump’s mistake in his first term was playing too nice in the hopes that they would unify. It didn’t work. \n\nThey have shown that they need to be beaten down so badly that they can never rise again. A second Trump term must be a term of offense and gains. No more playing on defense. Trump showed during his campaign with his gains in blue states that an offensive strategy works. \n\nTrump must hit the ground running \n\nAlready, there are reports of treachery coming in from liberal politicians. The Governor of Massachusetts, Maura Healey, said that she would not allow Massachusetts to assist with the removal of illegal aliens. That she would obstruct such operations. \n\nGreat. She can be the first example. I argue that, should she obstruct the enforcement of the law, she and her administration should be labelled as in rebellion to the authority of the United States. The Massachusetts National Guard should be federalized. \nSound harsh? Yeah. You know what though? The libs were arguing for the Texas National Guard to be federalized in response to Governor Abbott’s attempt to secure the Texas border. They wanted to make an example of him for being bold enough to pick up the federal government’s slack. \n\nSo yes, I believe that we should resort to harsh measures that the libs would have eagerly inflicted upon us should Harris have won the election. If the libs are so stupid as to cause a constitutional crisis over illegal aliens, so be it. \n\nFor Trump to have a smooth transition, we need to have the cabinet approved within the first week. Republicans have a 53-seat majority in the senate. Everyone must be united and ram these people through. \n\nTrump also needs competent people as Attorney General and Homeland Security Secretary. No more Jeff Sessions or Bill Barrs. We need people who can work fast and root out the rot in their respective departments. \n\nWe also need competent leadership at the Defense Department. We cannot have a neocon who will only continue the old policies. We need a nationalist who will clean house and reorganize the military apparatus. Rank and file military love Trump, don’t worry what the brass thinks. \nThere also must be a complete restructuring of the FBI, CIA, NSA, and other intelligence agencies. Get rid of the swamp creatures at the top. \nUse Schedule F to enact a full-scale purge of the federal bureaucracy. John McEntee was a great asset, use him. \n\nDo all of that first, and everything else will be a heck of a lot easier at the federal level. \n\nTrump must engage in dialogue with adversarial leadership \n\nHe is going to be inheriting Biden/Harris’ mess regarding foreign policy. Brutal wars in Ukraine and Israel were only getting worse as time went on. These are wars that we never should have instigated or gotten involved in. \n\nTrump should use his good relationship with Vladimir Putin to have a sitdown between himself, Putin, and Zelensky. Negotiations need to be held on the future of Ukraine and the occupied territories. \n\nFrom what I have heard so far, the Trump strategy in Ukraine will be an end to the war, not for Ukraine to retake territory lost to Moscow. Whatever he and Putin decide, Zelensky won’t have much of a choice in the matter considering how the US has bankrolled his country. \nWe must also have constructive dialogue with the Iranians, North Koreans, and Chinese. There needs to be a settlement on the Israeli Palestinian issue otherwise this is just going to keep happening for the rest of time.\n \nIt is time that we recognize that the era of unipolarity is over, and that we are moving into a multipolar world. We must recognize that there is an American sphere, a Russian sphere, and a Chinese sphere. Respectful competition, not conflict, should fuel our drive. \n\nIn a way, the actions of the United States post-1991 to preserve our superpower status led to the downfall of the unipolar world. Our active antagonization of Russian and Chinese governments who were willing to work with us drove them to rearm and reassert.\n\nTrump needs to pardon the political prisoners \n\nOne of his first acts in office needs to be to pardon everyone involved in January 6th. Those men and women have been unjustly imprisoned. They have suffered for four long years. They should only have to suffer for two more months. \n\nI also argue that he should pardon Derek Chauvin. He was only imprisoned to calm a situation that was never going to be satisfied anyways. He has faced dangers in prison, including being stabbed. \n\nAlso pardon Daniel Penny, who has been unjustly charged for defending subway passengers against a homeless black man who was creating a disturbance. In fact, Trump ought to go over a bunch of racially charged cases in his free time and just start pardoning people because there are so many examples it is ridiculous. \n\nIf he fails to pardon the January 6th prisoners at the least than we will know that he is doing something completely wrong. To not do so would be a complete betrayal of voters who would take a bullet for you. \n\nConclusion \n\nVictory is here. Revel in it. We have two months of rest before we have to go into offensive overdrive. The libs will continue to have their meltdowns. They have two months until doomsday. \n\nThat being said, we must stay vigilant and on the lookout for saboteurs and bad actors that will seek to destroy our success from the inside. These people must be rooted out, exposed, and destroyed before they can take root. \n\nI am of the belief that Trump’s second term will be much more successful and radical than his first. He has a vision, he has people around him who also share that vision, and if they dominate the scene, they can succeed. \n\nRegardless of what happens, it is going to be a wild four years and America will be radically changed by the end of it.",
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      "body": "For those of you who have been tuned out over the events of the past couple weeks, I will give you a refresher on something that is quite important. There have been multiple instances where we have seen a military escalation.\n\nFirst, Israel accused Hezbollah of bombing a playground with one of their missiles. Israel got really upset over this, and vowed retaliation. Later, they struck Beirut, Lebanon, where a prominent Hezbollah official was residing, killing him.  \n\nIn turn, this led Hezbollah to vow a retaliation against Israel. This retaliation is yet to come. It has resulted in multiple countries pulling out their citizens from Lebanon in the fear of a wider ground war.\n\nTo make matters worse, Israel assassinated the head of the Hamas Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, while he was attending the inauguration of Iran’s new President, the reformist Masoud Pezeshkian, who himself was replacing President Raisi, killed in a helicopter crash.\n\nGiven that this assassination took place on Iranian territory, and the capital city, Iran has vowed retaliation. It has been nearly two weeks, and we are still awaiting this response. Unlike Iran’s last strike against Israel in April, there seem to be no backchannel communications between the US, Israel, and Iran, suggesting a larger strike with better weapons.\n\nDue to this uncertainty, the United States has deployed numerous Naval assets in the region, with more on the way. I take this, along with the admission from top US officials that indicate they have no clue what Iran is going to do, as a sign that Iran is actually serious this go round.\n\nTo top all of this off, unrelated to the Middle East, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have seemingly pulled off a relatively successful push into Russia’s Kursk Oblast. How long they will be able to hold what they have gained is unknown.\n\nThe Problem\nAs an American, I am deeply concerned by these developments. The United States has had our hands in many of these issues. We have a close relationship with the Israelis and the Ukrainians, so much so that their conflicts become our conflicts.\n\nThe US has already had our share of Middle Eastern wars, such as Iraq and Afghanistan, the latter of which is considered a failure despite going on for over two decades. I do not believe that we will be able to take on Iran without suffering major damage militarily and domestically.\n\nIran is not like the Taliban. The Islamic Republic has been an established state since 1979. They have a large military force and are quite technologically inclined. Remember, it was Iran who started supplying Russia with the drones they are now using in Ukraine.\n\nAmerica, unlike Russia, has not spent the last two years fighting a modernized army. Our focus has mainly been on counterterrorism. We haven’t fought against a proper state since Iraq, and even then, it wasn’t much of a fight.\n\nOur main advantage against Iran would be our great air force, but after that I don’t see a ground incursion going too well. Iran is a mountainous country with a large population. We might be able to control seaside ports in the south at best. That’s if we can even land.\n\nThere is also the issue of their anti-ship missiles and suicide drones. I could see them using swarms of drones to force our ships to use up ammunition while using anti-ship missiles afterwards. We currently have a carrier in the Persian Gulf, good luck to those guys.\n\nThen we have to wonder if the Russians are supplying them with hypersonic missiles. There have been planes flying to Tehran from Russia for days now. Currently the US has no ability to deal with hypersonics, though we are trying.\n\nThe truth is that the US and Iran, while being stuck in a years long cold war, have never actually fought each other. Should a regional war erupt in the coming days, we will both be in uncharted territory.\n\nImagine Joe Biden leading us through the US/Iran War. He has been up to his usual antics in regards to this issue, telling Iran to, and I quote, “don’t.” Alright Joe, well what if they do? They are clearly fed up, don’t doesn’t matter at this point.\n\nGeorge Washington, our glorious first president, warned us against these foreign entanglements, even when there was no nuclear world ending weaponry to warrant such fears. We didn’t listen, and now we are on the verge of another Middle Eastern war.\n\nSpeculations on Response\nNow, there is, like in April, the chance that the Iranian response will be rather underwhelming. I think that is what the US is hoping for. I don’t think that is what they are expecting, given that we are moving so many assets to the region.\n\nUnlike April, when the Iranians were telling everyone the targets, they are now dead silent. US officials simply do not know what is going to happen. You may have heard numerous reports during the last two weeks about how an Iranian response was imminent. “Iran will attack in the next 72 hours!” Only for 72 hours to pass with nothing. Rinse and repeat.\n\nI was hearing things about internal disagreements over the response. The new president, Pezeshkian, who wants better relations with the west, is apparently pushing for a limited response. On the other hand, the Revolutionary Guards are pushing for a hard response. Ultimately, the Supreme Leader controls foreign policy, so the decision lays with Khamenei.\n\nPersonally, I believe that they have to deliver a hard response otherwise it will just be inviting Israel to continue operating inside Iranian territory with little consequence. As a sovereign country, you cannot just allow attacks inside your territory unchecked.\n\nAll this leads me to believe, and I could be totally wrong as it is just speculation, that we will see a larger scale response than was seen in April. Perhaps the US sending carriers to the region can make them think twice, perhaps they already have made up their mind regardless.\n\nConclusion\nNo matter where this leads, it will definitely be added to my list of topics to cover on this page. This conflict has been a long time coming, it just needed the right fuse to be lit. 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We mainly just want to be left alone and leave others alone.\n\nI have been to many different countries during my short life, I have never felt any hatred for any of the cultures that I have experienced. In fact, I believe that my travels have bolstered my nationalism.\n\nI have experienced the cultures of places like Germany and Russia, and I believe that those, like mine, are cultures that deserve to be preserved. I believe that cultural differences are beautiful and that we should respect each other.\n\nThere is no desire among the modern nationalist movement to dominate or exterminate certain cultures. I would argue that the neoliberal establishment has done more to diminish culture with their policies of turning nations into economic zones more than any nationalist government.\n\nNationalists despise warmongers\nThe majority consensus among Western nationalists today is that we must end unnecessary military adventures. The United States has been embroiled in Middle Eastern conflicts since soon after I was born.\n\nMany modern nationalists come from my generation, born before or during the post-9/11 world. Think about this, we were babies when Afghanistan was invaded and yet many of my peers could still enlist to serve in Afghanistan after we turned 18.\n\nOur soldiers fought in Afghanistan for over 20 years and in the end, it didn’t matter because the government that we propped up turned out to be absolutely useless. Afghanistan will go down in history like Vietnam, another long conflict that ultimately ended in failure.\n\nSince 9/11, America has militarily intervened in multiple Middle Eastern nations, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Palestine, and Yemen. Now, you could say that our mission to eradicate ISIS was somewhat successful, but other than that, we haven’t seen much success.\n\nThe population there doesn’t like us. We had a bunch of political science professors draw up a government for post-Baathist Iraq that barely functions. There is a brutal civil war in Syria, and it looks like we will see a regional war erupt over Israel/Palestine/Lebanon.\n\nThere were many who were against the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan in the first place given that Osama bin-Ladin wasn’t actually in any of those nations. The guy was in Pakistan. There ended up being no WMDs in Iraq.\n\nMany of the people who were opposed to these wars who weren’t on the left were old-school nationalists. Many of the people who were for these wars are considered today to be moderates. This always confused me.\n\nThey call us the extremists, yet they were the ones who voted to partake in multiple offensive wars that ended up failing? What is extreme about analyzing the situation and coming to a logical conclusion based on that analysis?\n\nThe Cold War ended in 1991. That should have been the time for the United States to focus inward into our own house so we wouldn’t end up broken like the USSR. The European countries could have formed their own defensive alliance.\n\nYet that didn’t happen, instead we expanded NATO and undertook intervention into the former Yugoslav territories. When there wasn’t a conflict to be found, our leaders took it upon themselves to create one.\n\nThere can be no greater example of this than post-Soviet Russia. Boris Yeltsin was, for all his faults, perhaps the most pro-western leader Russia ever had. Instead of extending an olive branch to the new Russian Federation, we continued to treat it as if they were still the Soviet Union.\n\nThis, of course, led to the creation of our present-day situation. Vladimir Putin was, initially, willing to work with the West. Many Russian hardliners criticized him for being too pro-western in the past. Some say he is still being too polite.\n\nHad our government listened to the nationalist voices back in the 90s like Pat Buchanan, we would not be in our current predicament.\n\nLiberal governance is not working for the people\nTo my American readership, when I speak of liberalism, I do not mean it in a Republican/Democrat context. Most governments in the Western world are liberal in character, even those run by conservative parties.\n\nLiberal Democracy has been the Western consensus since after the Second World War when we defeated the Axis. Initially, this was a good idea, but recently we have seen a degradation in the character of liberal democratic states.\n\nMy main critique against liberal democracy is that it doesn’t provide a solution to societal degradation. Sure, you can form a political party, run in elections and promise that you have all the answers, but in the end you will be hampered by the system.\n\nIn the US, you can become President, but you cannot enact major ideas unless you go through congress. You can use executive orders, but even those are limited in their power to actually do anything.\n\nThe problem with Western democracy today is that there are many interests which are so entrenched in the government that it makes change near impossible. Change is only allowed if the powers that be allow it.\n\nBig business, the military-industrial complex, international finance, etc. all have their agents entrenched into powerful positions, let it be congress or the invisible fourth branch of government, the executive bureaucracy.\n\nThese agents have even made it so that it is difficult if not impossible to actually fire them. Government workers in the bureaucracy have very strict job protections. You really think that this is for stability or democratic protection? Nah.\n\nThe groups mentioned above have played the game of liberal democracy and have managed to rig a previously thought unriggable system by merging themselves with the system itself. This took years to do.\n\nWhenever we are taught about the USSR, a word comes up: Nomenklatura. The Nomenklatura was a term to describe the Communist Party’s dominance over the system of appointments in the Soviet bureaucracy. It essentially cemented Communist Party rule over the entire government.\n\nWe in the West have developed a capitalist version of Nomenklatura. The only difference is that it isn’t under one uniform group but separate powerful interests who are united in their desire to stay in control. There is no need for a single-party system when you control all parties.\n\nTo be a conservative in such a society is to say that you wish to conserve that system. To be a liberal in such a society is to say that you want to keep the structure of the system but with a more human face.\n\nTo be a nationalist in such a society is to say that we must do away with the structure and system that has been rotted altogether.\n\nA new, people’s government must be formed so we can cast out the agents of big business, the military industrial complex, and international finance.\n\nFailed focus on social engineering\nThe liberal establishment has proven that they are more concerned with social engineering than they are with keeping civilization intact. Their alliance with modern day Social Justice Movements has proven disastrous for the masses.\n\nWe have seen our society degrade as governments have focused on idiotic proposals such as diversity, equity, and inclusion instead of hiring the best people for the job. This has led to collapses in infrastructure and other areas.\n\nThis has come at the expense of the West’s native white majority. I am sure that you have seen the new thing, White Dudes for Kamala Harris (the presidential candidate for the US Democratic Party). As you would expect, it is full of white self-hate and groveling towards women and minority groups.\n\nThis is just a symptom of a wider anti-white problem that the West has been facing from its own ruling class. White people, due to historical power, are considered to be evil and need to be erased. We know where this leads.\n\nAll this is done in the name of equality (or equity, whatever the word is they use these days), and you are a bad person if you oppose it. Conservatives have proven that they cannot or will not use government power to end this idiocy.\n\nAs nationalists, we must be willing and able to use the power of the state to end this suicidal ideology. We must enact laws forbidding anti-white practices, because we were apparently left out of the Civil Rights Act.\n\nI believe that self-hatred on the basis of skin color is a form of abuse, and any institution or individual advocating or practicing it should be put under arrest.\n\nThen there is also the question of this weird gender ideology nonsense that is going around the West. Our ruling class seems to have forgotten that there are only men and women in existence. This too must be rectified using state power.\n\nIt is silly that I must advocate using authoritarian methods to restore what was previously common sense to the West, but if we continue going down this road then all forms of democratic options will have been exhausted\n\nUltimately, nationalists advocate for an end to social engineering. The government should not be used to enforce fringe ideologies onto the public. Government should be used to govern. Anything else is outside the bounds of reason.\n\nJustice must return\nWe need to end the soft on crime debacle that our rulers have gotten us into. It used to be that if you commit a crime, you get punished for it. Now whenever someone commits a crime we have to bring out a billion sociologists to explain why.\n\nThe end result is places like New York City or Chicago where you have repeat offenders because they get out time and time again. You get gangs terrorizing neighborhoods, druggies on the streets.\n\nRemember when Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, said that all this is “just part and parcel of living in a big city?” I do, and I absolutely disagree. It may be part and parcel now because of weaklings who refuse to do anything about crime, but it wasn’t always that way and it will not always be that way.\n\nWe need a full crackdown on criminal activity in our cities so we can make them livable again. Nobody should have to fear walking on their own at night.\n\nAn end to unsustainable immigration\nThe big business lobby has deemed it necessary to import unskilled labor from abroad at the expense of the native peoples. This has led to lowered wages, exploitation of the illegal aliens that come here, and stagnation.\n\nWe need to have mass deportations of illegal aliens in Western countries. This has been done successfully in the past and can be done even more successfully now with all the technology we have today.\n\nUse all means at our disposal: planes, trains, semi-trucks, cargo ships, whatever. If the countries that they are originally from will not take them back, threaten them financially, if that doesn’t work, threaten them with military force.\n\nDemographics are destiny, you cannot have a large influx of foreign demographics into a nation just like you cannot have a hundred people move into your house and expect you to feed all of them.\n\nThe big business lobby will cry about this, but it will be too late. The nation will direct capital, capital will not direct the nation.\n\nConclusion\nThere is much work to be done in order to fix the West. This piece was a floating of ideas, any other ideas are more than welcome. I believe that in the end, we will win.\n\nTell me what you think in the comments.",
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      "body": "So it finally happened. Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 Presidential Race, leaving his campaign to Vice President Kamala Harris. If you remember, Harris ran once before in 2019, and lost after getting beat in a debate by Tulsi Gabbard.\n\nMany people thought that would be the end of Kamala Harris. Sadly, this was not to be, as Joe Biden announced her as his running mate. They went on to win the election in November during the Covid Crisis.\n\nI really do not believe that Kamala can beat Donald Trump in November for the following reasons.\n\nKamala has no Rust Belt appeal  \nOne of Joe Biden’s appeals, even if you disliked him, was that he was known as Scranton Joe. Pennsylvania was basically his second home state. No hate there, I consider Missouri to be my second home state after Florida.\n\nNeedless to say, that moniker helped him in 2020. He appealed to white working-class union voters in the Rust Belt, which had previously gone to Donald Trump in 2016. Of course, we should keep in mind that his win was not a landslide despite the Covid Crisis.\n\nEven though Biden had declined since then, he was still a dangerous opponent due to his appeal with white-working class union Rust Belt voters. The same cannot be said with Harris. Harris is a San Francisco liberal, the definition of a coastal elite.\n\nI really had no idea what Biden was thinking when he picked her as his VP, given she had no strategic value outside of nonwhite women. The Democrats don’t need to lock down California, they need to lock down the Rust Belt. Alas, it ended up not mattering due to Scranton Joe, but it will most likely come to backfire this year.\n\nSure, she could pick a running mate from the region, like Governor Shapiro. While the VP pick is important, the person at the top of the ticket is also important. I do not believe that Mike Pence alone would have won Trump the Rust Belt despite being picked partially for that purpose.\n\nIf she was smart, she would pick a running mate from the region. I am hearing Arizona Senator Mark Kelly’s name being tossed around. If she opts for a Sun Belt strategy it will be interesting to see the realignment. I don’t think a Sun Belt strategy would be worth it though.\n\nKamala is not very likable\nHarris suffers from something that other liberal women in politics have suffered for years: the fact that she is not very likable. Hillary Clinton had this same problem in 2016, and we all saw how that went. Ironic that Clinton was one of Harris’ first defenders.\n\nI don’t know what it is, but most women in politics on both sides of the aisle come off as very robotic. Just something I have observed. Yeah, there are exceptions, like Tulsi Gabbard or, if you are following her, Missouri Secretary of State candidate Valentina Gomez (who is a bit on the crazy side if you follow her X).\n\nPeople might call this a misogynistic comment, though I cannot see how one can argue against it regarding Harris. She speaks very slowly to the point where I feel like she is trying not to stumble over her words.\n\nThen you have the fact that she is just plain condescending. No better example can be given than when she was debating Joe Biden in the primaries and the topic of bussing was brought up. Seriously, the guy looked like he was about to cry.\n\nThe point is, to win the white working class, you have to have some sort of gusto and likability. Trump has his New York brashness; Biden had his folksy stories. That the Democratic establishment is going with Kamala makes me believe that they are either abandoning winning the WWC or that they are confident enough that they have that demographic locked in.\n\nAlso, her base is just plain annoying. Remember the Khive? Well they’re back, and just as annoying as they were in 2020. This girlboss slay queen tiktoker attitude might work in California, but it definitely isn’t working where she actually needs to win.\n\nKamala still has to answer for her mistakes\nThen we have the largest strike against Kamala, which is the fact that she is still responsible for many of the administration’s failures. She can’t just be allowed to distance herself from Biden, as she will surely try to do.\n\nRemember, before Mayorkas started acting like an idiot, Kamala was the one in charge of the border. Biden sent her down to Latin America to find the “root causes” of immigration. Of course, doing this while leaving the border wide open.\n\nJoe Biden, had he chosen to continue running, could have passed the blame on the border crisis to Kamala, technically. However, the opposite cannot be true, as Kamala was the one who had actual oversight.\n\nGiven that Trump himself has made the border central to his campaign, I do not see Kamala being able to put up a sufficient argument to explain what we have seen for the past four years. Seriously, what is it?\n\nIf you really want to find the root causes of illegal immigration, fine. We should look for that, even though the answer is pretty obvious to anyone paying attention. However, we should also be able to secure the border at the same time.  \n\nThe is no excusing the state of our southern border right now.\n\nKamala has come out in favor of further gun control\nLiberals got supercharged by the abortion argument. You would think that Kamala would use that energy to win the election while keeping the opposing team as calm as possible. Well, she didn’t.\n\nGun control is to conservatives what abortion is for liberals. The fact that Kamala came out in favor of further restrictions on guns proves that she doesn’t realize what wins and loses nationally.\n\nThis would be like Trump coming out and endorsing a full federal abortion ban across all fifty states. It’s a losing issue outside of deep red areas. Same with national gun control, which is why such legislation has been limited.\n\nWith this, Trump could easily make the argument that she is trying to bring the California system to the entire country. This is also why I believed that DeSantis would have failed. The Florida and California systems are hated by certain aspects of the country for different reasons.\n\nGiven that Trump hasn’t come out and endorsed any federal bans on abortion yet Kamala has come out and endorsed federal gun bans, I can see rural areas being super energized on election day, which has been lagging in recent elections.\n\nConclusion\nUltimately, Kamala Harris is the spitting image of an out of touch, California coastal elitist. The only reason that she has received any strength at all is because she holds the title of Vice President.\n\nOf course, we are seeing a bit of Harris fever right now in the polls. While this may seem alarming, I say we wait until the post-Biden dropout whirlwind wears off. I find it hard to believe that the person many said was the worst Vice President in American history suddenly has such massive popular support.\n\nI am interested in what she will actually run on other than gun control. She talks a lot about Project 2025 but Trump isn’t even running on that platform. If it is just “Trump is a threat to our democracy” then consider her candidacy dead in the water.\n\nI look forward to covering this election with you all.",
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      "body": "So debate night came and went, and while I was a bit skeptical of Trump accepting the challenge, it turned out to pay off big for him. While I think that Trump could have done better in several areas, Biden fumbled the ball.\n\nI, along with a few others, was of the opinion that since the bar was set so low for Joe, all he had to do was remain above that bar for the debate to be considered a success. Sadly for him, he was unable to do that.\n\nImmediately after the debate ended, liberal pundits across the news media voiced their utter disappointment. Even our most liberal network, MSNBC, was dooming hard, bringing up that a conversation ought to be had at replacing Biden as the Democratic candidate for president.\n\nAfter all, having a debate this early with many safety features (that were meant to benefit Joe) was supposed to reassure the Democratic elites and electorate that Biden could hold his own against Trump. In an ironic way, those safety features (mic muting, no audience, delay) contributed to Biden’s downfall.\n\nEver since the debate, there have been conversations being held in Democratic Party elite circles about Biden’s competency, which those of us on the right have been talking about for years. They can no longer be contributed to “cheap fakes.”\n\nGovernor Gretchen Whitmer, who comfortably won her reelection campaign in 2022, has expressed doubts that Biden can win the state of Michigan. It also appears that, according to Jake Tapper, a group of Democratic governors held a call yesterday expressing concern about Biden. The call was initiated by Minnesota Governor Walz.\n\nAside from that, many of Biden’s donors have reportedly expressed frustration over the campaign, with some asking for refunds. Apparently, these people were asleep for the past three and a half years.\n\nThe Biden campaign has tried to reassure people by declaring that he will remain in the race, despite growing calls for him to drop out. This is further reinforced by the fact that, with only four months left to go before election day, it could be too late to swap out.\n\nThe Bidenists have responded to these calls by attacking primary voters, who, they say, voted for Biden. Never mind the fact that there wasn’t much of a Democratic Primary to speak of, with no debates or major names thrown in the ring.\n\nIt appears that the Biden campaign is now running on the hope that people see Trump as the devil, and that even if Biden is not up to the task of governing, he would still be surrounded by a team of people who will uphold “our democracy.”\n\nWhich brings us to the problem I wish to discuss today.\n\nBiden’s rule by committee\nThe Biden campaign, whether intentionally or not, admitted what many have long suspected for a long while. Biden isn’t really in control most of the time, in fact, he is surrounded by a team of agency heads, cabinet members and bureaucrats who are setting the agenda.\n\nEssentially, Biden has decentralized the office of the President to such a degree that the President himself isn’t the chief executive anymore. The White House has been degraded to more of a board of directors, with Biden as a very weak chairman.\n\nI saw this coming years ago, given that many of Biden’s biggest arguments against Trump was a supposed lack of cabinet and agency independence. It was laughable, given that there were numerous times that Trump and his agency heads disagreed heavily.\n\nHowever, this wasn’t enough for Joe. Now we have an executive branch that is too decentralized, with agency heads being able to act with near total independence. Pete Buttigieg, for all I know, is still on his eternal vacation.\n\nThis presents us with a big problem. If Biden isn’t able to function at all times (until 4 PM, apparently), who is making the decisions half the time? Who do we blame if things go wrong? This administration isn’t very transparent.\n\nContrast this with Vladimir Putin, who is able to function hours on end, even during the middle of the night. Of course, Presidents are people who need sleep, but the Presidency isn’t a part time job. In being elected President, you have volunteered yourself to be put on call 24/7 for 4-8 years.\n\nAlso, if the entire thing about Biden being woozy after 4 PM is 100% true, then whose bright idea was it for him to go up against Trump, a guy who doesn’t have this issue despite being close to his age, at 9 PM?\n\nThis also presents a problem for Biden’s defenders. They claim that Joe Biden is the last line of defense for our democracy against the onslaught of Donald Trump. How can this be, if he isn’t mentally or physically up to the task of the office?\n\nHow can anyone in good faith claim that democracy is on the line when the person we are supposed to vote for to defend it isn’t in control of his administration? Are we supposed to believe that democracy must now be defended by the faceless unelected bureaucrats in the fourth branch of government?\n\nTo argue that Joe Biden is the choice to defend democracy is also arguing that democracy is rule by the unelected bureaucrats of the fourth branch. How can this be, when such people are appointed, and not elected?\n\nTrump’s Centralization\nOn the other hand, we have Donald Trump, who isn’t facing the same problem Joe is. His goal seems to be the opposite: a full centralization of executive power in the hands of the Presidency. The actual elected official, I should add.\n\nSuch a proposal didn’t start with Trump. The Unitary Executive Theory, which has been floated around for years, argues that the President possesses the power to control the entire executive branch.\n\nThis theory is based upon article two of the US constitution, which in its Vesting Clause states that:\n\n“The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice-President chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows:[...]”\n\nAccording to Alexander Hamilton:\n\n“In the article which gives the legislative powers of the government, the expressions are \"All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a congress of the United States.\" In that which grants the executive power, the expressions are \"The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States.\" The enumeration ought therefore to be considered, as intended merely to specify the principal articles implied in the definition of executive power. ...”\n\nHamilton was pointing out the difference between the unenumerated powers of the legislative and executive branches. Congress is limited to powers specifically delegated to the legislature, as the term “herein” implies. Meanwhile, executive power is vested in the President of the United States. There is no “herein.”\n\nAs the years have gone by, the US government strayed from this course and created the web of faceless, unelected bureaucrats that we see today, many of whom the President has no control over despite being formally part of the executive branch.\n\nJoe Biden, along with the modern Democratic Party apparatus, have made it quite clear that they do not believe in the Unitary Executive Theory, so much so that it seems we have almost done away with an executive during these three and a half years of Joe.\n\nTrump, on the other hand, seems to believe in the Unitary Executive Theory, or at least his own version of it. His Schedule F seeks to strip protections from many employees of the executive branch that would normally be protected from dismissal.\n\nSchedule F was enacted during the final days of the Trump administration but never enacted because Biden rescinded it. Biden has also attempted to strengthen protections for the federal bureaucracy. No surprises there.\n\nDespite this, Trump has vowed to bring it back on day one, with many as 50,000 people potentially being affected at the minimum. While people might gasp at this, it could be a good thing.\n\nAfter all, why should unelected bureaucrats have greater protections than the average citizen? Why should they be allowed to continue their work unchecked? The people elect the President to set an agenda, why should it be stonewalled by people nobody voted for?\n\nOne could argue that the office of the American President is a uniquely populist position that has been undermined by intrusions into the branch of government that it is supposed to have total control over.\n\nIt seems to me that Schedule F, like many good ideas, is only opposed because Trump is the one that proposed it. Now, we must suffer through the Biden unelected bureaucratic machine because Trump is a threat to democracy despite his argument for executive centralization being grounded in the constitution.\n\nConclusion\nThe above written is why I believe that the argument of this election deciding the fate of our democracy is a simplistic one at best. If anything, this election will decide the fate of our executive branch and the power that it possesses.\n\nJoe Biden has made it clear that the best defense of democracy is a weak executive with a strong team of cabinet officials and agency heads despite these people being unelected themselves. Institutional integrity is what matters.\n\nTrump has made it clear that the best defense of democracy is a strong executive with total control over appointments, agencies and cabinet departments, grounded in a constitutional basis even if it looks authoritarian.\n\nWhat happens next depends on who wins in November and whether Trump can succeed in his efforts to create a unitary executive should he win. He didn’t last time.",
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      "body": "Well, today will be the day of the first US Presidential debate, with Former President Donald Trump going up against current President Joe Biden. Biden has been at Camp David for a week to prepare for this event.\n\nI can’t say that I am really looking forward to this debate. We all know how it is going to go, the moderators will throw Trump very hardball questions about 2020 which will cause him to rant about that.\n\nI don’t see them pressuring Biden that much, even though he really deserves to answer for his mismanagement of the country for the past three and a half years. They won’t ask him about the economy, immigration, or his entangling us in multiple foreign wars.\n\nOn top of everything, they have refused to let prominent independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy into the room. I am not an RFK fan, but in principle I believe that he ought to be allowed in. 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I have taken numerous drug tests for stupid things, but Biden once again proves that he thinks that he is above the average citizen.\n\nAs I am writing this, I have also received word that CNN will implement a 1-2 minute delay instead of the standard 7 second delay. Why they did this, I do not know. This is supposed to be a live debate, such a delay is not live in any sense of the word.\n\nThis comes after the announcement that CNN will not be allowing independent media channels to stream the debate. This will affect political live streamers who wish to do commentary on their own channels.\n\nWho am I kidding? We all know why such decisions have been made. We just aren’t allowed to talk about it.\n\nI will say that one good thing about having the debate this early is that people haven’t already voted. In my view, all debates should be done before early voting. Case in point the 2022 PA senate race when Dr. Oz beat down Fetterman but by that point it was too late.\n\nAnother big event to note is that Trump will probably be announcing his choice for Vice President tonight. I am not too excited for this given that most of the names that have been floated around are unimpressive.\n\nPeople are saying Burgum, but I think it would be more helpful to him to have a rust belter or Governor Youngkin of Virginia. He needs someone who can absolutely humiliate Harris in the VP debates, which will be easy to do.\n\nPotential topics\nI have no faith in the topics that we will most likely see brought up by the moderators tonight. This debate will be a farce if it becomes all about January 6th, Ukraine, Israel, or whatever America Last event has happened over the past three years.\n\nWe need talks on immigration. Biden’s handling of our southern border has been inexcusable. 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      "body": "British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced last month that snap elections will be held on July 4th, 2024. Sunak himself is from the Conservative Party, which currently has a 346 seat majority in the House of Commons.\n\nI truly believe that the Conservatives do not deserve to keep their current majority, for reasons that I will go into momentarily. First, I would like to give you the alternatives that will be running to attain a majority next month.\n\nMind you, the following are just basic outlines of the parties in the House of Commons, if you are a British voter I recommend doing more thorough research into your options, and not just taking my opinion as the gospel when voting.\n\nThe Parties\nThe Conservative’s main competitor, the Labour Party, has 205 seats. Labour is led by Keir Starmer, who took over from Jeremy Corbyn after a string of election losses. Those of us who paid some attention to British politics during the Corbyn leadership remember him being a pretty big deal for the British left at the time.\n\nThen we have the third largest party, the Scottish National Party, led in parliament by John Swinny (who is also the new First Minister of Scotland, so I don’t know how that works). I don’t expect them to make much more inroads considering they are mainly a regional party favored by Scotland.\n\nAfterwards we have the previously third largest party in the UK, the Liberal Democrats, led by Ed Davey. Their ideology is exactly what you would think, being, well, liberal democrats. They are liberals that believe in free markets and a pro-EU Pro-interventionist foreign policy.  \n\nThe fourth largest party, the Democratic Unionist Party, is another regional group situated in Northern Ireland. They actually were part of a governing coalition with Theresa May at one point which many considered provocative against the Irish Republic. They are very conservative but again, I do not expect them to make much inroads due to their regional nature.\n\nFollowing the DUP, we have the British wing of Sinn Fein, which is in Parliament for no other reason than to advocate for Irish unification. Again, I do not expect this party to make much inroads.\n\nThe next three parties are smaller regional organizations. Plaid Cymru represent the Welsh, the Social Democratic and Labour Party represents leftist voters in Northern Ireland, and Alba is a more nationalist version of the Scottish National Party. Again, these are regional parties and I do not expect them to gain more support.\n\nThen there are the British Greens, which are much like their continental European counterparts. They are left-libertarians who advocate for environmental issues, LGBT rights, and eventual abolition of the monarchy.\n\nAfterwards there is Alliance, which is another regional party. Alliance is Northern Ireland’s liberal alternative to the DUP and SDLP. Basically, the libdems but for Northern Ireland.\n\nThere is also the question of the up-and-coming Reform Party, led by Nigel Farage, the man who championed causes such as Brexit and other forms of nationalist policy such as immigration restrictions.\n\nFinally, we have the Worker’s Party of Britain, led by George Galloway. Galloway is, from what I can tell, more of an old-school working-class leftist, as opposed to modern day hipster leftism. They are social conservatives but economic socialists.\n\nWhy the Conservatives deserve to lose\nThis brings me to the main point of this piece. The Conservatives have been in power in the UK since 2010, when they, under the leadership of David Cameron, beat Labour under former Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Think about that, the Conservatives have been in power for almost fifteen years.\n\nHowever, that they have been in power for so long is not my reason as to why the ought to lose in July. The main reason I believe in their defeat is the fact that, despite being in power for such a time, they have failed to do one critical thing: actually conserve anything British.\n\nYou might be wondering why I, as an American, care about this. It is because I am a quarter English on my mother’s side. I have relatives in the UK, I try to go over there on occasion. The last time I was able to go was in 2013, and sadly I have missed the chance to go over this summer due to other obligations.\n\nThe truth of the matter is that everything negative we are seeing happen to the UK has been allowed to happen under the Conservative’s watch. The mass immigration into British cities such as London changing the cultural landscape, the hate speech laws, the LGBT pandering, the warmongering, etc.\n\nAll of this is happening without the so-called Conservative Party conserving British culture, British values, and British sovereignty. If the Conservative Party refuses to conserve anything, then why shouldn’t they lose to Labour? What difference would it make? Why should Conservative Britons waste their time?\n\nThe current batch of polling seems to point to a wipeout at the ballot box for the Conservatives. However, we should also note that the Conservatives have had bad polling numbers in the past and came out strong in the end. This happened most notably with the 2019 elections, polling pointed to a Labour win, but we still ended up with Prime Minister Boris Johnson while Jeremy Corbyn got kicked to the curb.\n\nThen you also have the issue of the Conservatives changing leadership as often as people change their socks. We started with David Cameron, who resigned because he was butthurt about Brexit. Afterwards we got Theresa May, who resigned because she called an election which went horribly for the Conservatives despite keeping a slim majority.\n\nThen we got Boris Johnson, who resigned after scandals despite presiding over a golden age electoral wise for the party. After Johnson, we received Liz Truss, who was only in office for a month, and finally, we have Rishi Sunak, who is likely about to be leaving office soon.\n\nSo that is, within a span of ten years, five Prime Ministers. Meanwhile, Labour has only changed leadership once during that same timeframe, from Corbyn to Starmer. Whether we would see a continuation of Labour stability in a Starmer Government I do not know.\n\nSo here we have five different Conservative Prime Ministers, and not one of them actually conserved anything. Cultural degradation continued, the woke agenda is still being pushed. The only thing they are conserving, like most western conservative parties, is the GDP.\n\nBasically, the gripes I have with the British Conservatives are the same gripes I have with the American Republicans. The difference is that the Republicans don’t deserve to win but will most likely win because the Democrats don’t deserve to win either, whereas the Conservatives don’t deserve to win and probably won’t because Labour has opposition advantage.\n\nShould the Conservatives once again defy expectations and squeak out a win, I do not expect them to have an awakening and change course. I hope that, with losing, they will have an awakening, but given the track record of establishment parties, I do not see that happening.\n\nLong story short, if you are a truly conservative Briton, I am of the opinion that you should cast your vote elsewhere in July.\n\nIf not the Conservatives, then who?\nFor me personally, I think that Farage’s Reform UK and Galloway’s Worker’s Party of Great Britain would be better alternatives. Farage believes in immigration restrictionism and cultural conservatism, while Galloway also believes in social conservatism but has left-wing economic policies.\n\nI would say that I am giving a double endorsement to Reform UK and the Worker’s Party of Great Britain given that both Farage and Galloway have positions that I agree and disagree with. 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      "body": "There is nothing that annoys the heck out of me more than people whose ideology trumps their commitment to ensuring continuing civilization. As a leader, the continuation of civilization must be paramount. Yet certain people disagree. One of those people is Boston Mayor, Michelle Wu. \n\nMayor Wu is just one of a growing number of city officials in this country that wishes to enact suicidal policies on the American people living there. I have covered others before, most notably Chicago’s own Brandon Johnson. \n\nWu has endorsed a new, “progressive” agenda that shows her steadfast commitment to soft on crime policies. \n\nShe has said that she would refuse to prosecute crimes, including: \n•\tShoplifting \n•\tLarceny \n•\tDisorderly conduct \n•\tReception of stolen property \n•\tDriving with a suspended license \n•\tBreaking and entering with property damage \n•\tWanton and malicious destruction of property \n•\tThreats \n•\tAlcohol possession as a minor \n•\tPossession of marijuana \n•\tPossession and intending to distribute\n•\tOther drug possession \n\nWe can debate whether or not marijuana possession warrants prosecution, but shoplifting? Really? What is the point of going to the store and buying something with my own money if I could just shoplift? \n\nI have heard a lot from people about how shoplifting “isn’t a big deal.” Yeah, one item being shoplifted may not be a big deal, but eventually all of it adds up if it just keeps happening. People call slippery slope a fallacy, but is it really a fallacy if it ends up true? \n\nThen there is the good old “why are you shilling for mega-corporations” line. Do you think that shoplifting doesn’t affect small businesses too? Are mom and pops somehow immune from this behavior? \n\nI swear that the left has this sort of noble view of shoplifters, these modern day Robin Hoods that steal from giant chains to feed their families. That there is some sort of shoplifter code of honor somewhere that they all abide by. That touching the small stores is a no no.\n \nWell, let me tell you, I work in an office supply store, and these people aren’t stealing food or medicine. They’re stealing headphones and other leisure items. There is nobility, there is only trashy behavior.\n \nThen there is larceny. Larceny is defined as nonviolent theft of personal property. It is like shoplifting but applied to the rest of the world. Basically, if someone takes your bike that is sitting outside, they wouldn’t be punished for it.\n \nDisorderly conduct, which is what is sounds like, would also not be prosecuted. This would give people permission to engage in behavior that threatens the harmony of society. The obscene would be normalized.\n \nI am not going down all of this list because I think that it is all pretty obvious where this is going to lead. Especially threats. Why would we not prosecute threats? If I am going to threaten someone, should I be allowed to walk the street in a wait and see manner? \n\nWhat we will get are these cases where people harm others, and we find out that threats were issued beforehand. Then the city officials will wonder how they could have possibly seen such a heinous action coming. \n\nAlso, what is it with the left and wanting to legalize drug use? I don’t want to legalize drug use. Imagine putting all that bad stuff in your body. Couldn’t be me. All it does is make society trashier. \n\nMost of this list has to do with property damage, which is not surprising to me considering that the left doesn’t see property as valuable for whatever reason. I would imagine that the punishment for a person defending their property would be harsh. \n\nRemember kids, “why do you value property more than the lives of others?” To which I respond, “why do you value my property over your own life?” \n\nMayor Wu has also advocated for shutting down the Boston Police gang database. \nWu has been a silly person for a long time now. When she was first elected, she opened offices that focused on food justice, black male advancement, LGBTQ+ advancement, etc. In all honesty, we should have known where things would be headed at that point. \n\nWu was also the same person who had that holiday party hosted for non-white city council members only. Remember that? For a person who wants to combat racism, she sure doesn’t like white people. \nYou know, for a person who comes from the Asian American racial group, a group that has become the victim of many a heinous crime as of late, she sure as heck doesn’t seem interested in combatting it.\n\nWhy does it matter? \n\nWhat Mayor Wu is doing is just another example in a long line of examples of liberal and left-wing politicians putting the well-being of criminals and the dregs of society over the law-abiding citizen who just wants to get by. \nThere is no justification for any of this. Societies and civilizations have rules and laws for a reason. They help protect normal people from those who would seek to do them harm. They protect us from anarchy. \n\nIf rules and laws apply only to the normal, law-abiding citizen going about their day but not the deviant who lives dishonestly, then why should we even follow the law at all? Why shouldn’t I be allowed to just rob a bank? \nOh right, technically that isn’t on the list of protected prosecutions. In that case, why can’t I just “shoplift” a bank? If we are all going to be allowed to play stupid games, we may as well be allowed to win big prizes. \n\nYou have people who live in these places that wonder why their areas are turning to garbage and at the same time they vote in people like this. What do they expect is going to happen when thieves are allowed to do whatever they want? \nOkay, maybe they will vote for the social policies. I love some social policies, but not enough for me to sacrifice high trust society. \n\nThis is the stupid thing about US politics and our two-party system. You have some good ideas on both sides of the aisle, but then you also have really horrible ideas that are pushed by the same people. \nYeah, generic Democrat 1 may support worker’s rights, but what does it matter if they support letting criminals walk free from prosecution? Sure, generic Republican A supports a strong border, but what does that matter if we are sending money overseas? \n\nOur civilization cannot survive if the people who actually contribute it have no protection from the people who seek to destroy it. We may as well just dissolve the United States of America at this point and become the Territory. \n\nConclusion \n\nMichelle Wu is not alone in her efforts to help destroy American civilization. There is an entire segment of the population who believes that this is a just and necessary thing. Ultimately, we must do something about this thought process in order for us to right our course. \n\nI am glad that I do not live in a city like Boston. American cities used to be the prime example of American greatness and achievement. Now they are protection rackets for gangs and their criminal underlings. \nWe need a full reset of the cities. The house must be cleaned out so the good, normal people of the United States of America can once again prosper.",
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