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But if the cause be not good, the king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and arms and heads, chopped off in battle, shall join together at the latter day and cry all 'We died at such a place; some swearing, some crying for surgeon, some upon their wives left poor behind them, some upon the debts they owe, some upon their children rawly left.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...ee40&ei=6&rc=1
34 charges. MTG is cheerleading in Trump's defense.
You can say all you want about Trump, but I will have more issues if MTG becomes the vice president of USA in 2024 than if Trump becomes the PotUS.
alhoon is not a member of the infamous Hoons: a (fictional) nazi-sympathizer KKK clan. Of course, no Hoon would openly admit affiliation to the uninitiated.
"Angry Uncle Gordon" describes me well.
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Beta-tester for Darthmod Empire, the default modification for Empire Total War that does not ask for your money behind patreon.
Developer of Causa Belli submod for Darthmod, headed by Hammeredalways and a ton of other people.
Developer of LtC: Random maps submod for Lands to Conquer (that brings a multitude of random maps and other features).
If the mugshot gets published, I can guarantee that the cultists will throw their money at it.
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Funny how all the Presidents of the USA are guilt of thousands of deaths, especially Bush for his criminal invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan but only Trump is indicted in what's a clear politically motivated trial. Good luck putting him in jail!
All 34 indictments are related to “falsifying business records” regarding Trump’s alleged very expensive sexy times with some blonde sex worker years ago. Nothing to do with Trump’s presidency, of course. But I guess if impeachment failed to substantiate claims Trump was a Manchurian candidate and cops escorted Buffalo Guy through much of the Capitol like personal tour guides during the “coup” that turned out to be “obstructing an official proceeding” when it came time to file charges, the DNC and their allies in the media have to mention that the alleged illegal payments were made “during Trump’s campaign” to make the association between the latter and criminality. I mean ffs:
Regardless of whether or not Trump is actually guilty of trying to disguise sex as a business expense to avoid bad press (yawn), it’s comical how desperate the Democrats are to punish him for humiliating them. Bragg campaigned for his current job by promising Party elites to go after Trump. Once he got it, he cobbled together a string of rumors, ranging from Trump misrepresenting his net worth to the alleged “no kiss and tell” payments, to come up with something, anything, to file charges with - all in a blatant effort to advance his own career by proximity to the limelight and virtue signals of political fealty to the Party. And it appears to have served his purpose.Jeremy Saland, another former prosecutor, cautioned that prosecutors know they "have a very long road ahead with these charges" because they will have to prove to a jury that Trump intended to break election law even though he is not criminally charged with doing so.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...st-2023-04-04/
What I find most entertaining, however, is the Left’s attempt to “refute” comparisons between the DNC’s subjugation of state and federal institutions to their political vendetta and what that says about the health and of those institutions. The “fact checkers” were quick to point out the political machinery in lots of other countries have attempted to jail current or former leaders, so it’s totally ok and not unprecedented, before listing countries with long and often infamous modern histories of political instability, systemic corruption/cronyism and autocracy, including Brazil and Argentina. Lmao.
https://www.politifact.com/article/2...d-united-stat/
Whatever happens from here on out, Trump’s presidency, retaliation by the establishment and subsequent indictment are the latest canaries heralding trajectory of US decline in absolute if not relative terms, even if we manage to avoid becoming a one party state with the sort of social and political environment you’d expect to find in Latin America, from the PRI in Mexico to Venezuelan Chavistas to Argentina’s Peronism. You can already see it in the increasingly hostile and intransigent institutional dominance of the liberal establishment in the US.
As for why and how that is, you can read commentary from the Founding Fathers predicting this sort of outcome due to failure to safeguard the institutions they created for us and which made the US system one of the oldest and most stable living governments in the world. I suspect some of the contemporary reasons are similar to those behind the growing prominence of India/Pakistan Hindu/Muslim rivalry in domestic British politics, thousands of miles from either of those places.
https://theprint.in/opinion/rishi-su...stanis/495746/
I coined the term “s—holification” some years ago to describe this process, but I suppose a more printable version works just as well.The Brazilianization of the World
Welcome to Brazil. Here the only people satisfied with their situation are financial elites and venal politicians. Everyone complains, but everyone shrugs their shoulders. This slow degradation of society is not so much a runaway train, but more of a jittery rollercoaster, occasionally holding out promise of ascent, yet never break*ing free from the tracks. We always come back to where we started, shaken and disoriented, haunted by what might have been.
Indeed, this story of regression is now perhaps most conspicuous in the Global North, which today is demonstrating many of the features that have plagued the Global South: not just inequality and informalization of work, but increasingly venal elites, political vola*tility, and social ungluing. Is the rich world not also becoming “modern but not modern enough,” but in reverse?
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2...-of-the-world/
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@Lord Thesaurian
Excusism
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Of these facts there cannot be any shadow of doubt: for instance, that civil society was renovated in every part by Christian institutions; that in the strength of that renewal the human race was lifted up to better things-nay, that it was brought back from death to life, and to so excellent a life that nothing more perfect had been known before, or will come to be known in the ages that have yet to be. - Pope Leo XIII
@ Lord Thesaurian
You stated that Trump may have commited a crime:
Regardless of whether or not Trump is actually guilty of trying to disguise sex as a business expense to avoid bad press
Then excused it.
So..... uhm..... yeah.... that's excusing the crime so.... Excusism.
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Of these facts there cannot be any shadow of doubt: for instance, that civil society was renovated in every part by Christian institutions; that in the strength of that renewal the human race was lifted up to better things-nay, that it was brought back from death to life, and to so excellent a life that nothing more perfect had been known before, or will come to be known in the ages that have yet to be. - Pope Leo XIII
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The only evidence they have that Trump is being targeted or treated unfairly is "I don't like it!"
It's especially laughable coming from the party that has a long sordid history of attempting to use the legal system to go after it's enemies, or even people who just happen to be related to it's enemies.
There is more than enough evidence to suggest that Trump's prosecution has political undertones. There is a lot more to this for his supporters than "I don't like it".
As for your second point, what it reads like is that it's not that the legal system is not being weaponised against Trump to serve the DNC's vendetta against him, no, it's that the GOP did it first. I'm afraid, that's not a very good argument. It may be discrediting the GOP's moral high ground, but it doesn't excuse the DNC's failings.
I agree that there would not have been as much woohaaa if it wasn't Trump. The Democrats are using this woohaa to their benefit.
These may be problematic or not for a person but the fact is, woohaa or not, Trump may (most probably) have committed a crime and he has his legal right to defend himself.
Politically motivated prosecution or not, it is his fault if he broke the law.
Also, as Alastor said "the others did it first!" is not a good defense when it comes to politicizing this and trying to use the woohaa for the party's benefit. It is understandable though. And it has been happening before the Democrats and the Republicans were formed. Using scandals and anger is not exactly new in politics.
alhoon is not a member of the infamous Hoons: a (fictional) nazi-sympathizer KKK clan. Of course, no Hoon would openly admit affiliation to the uninitiated.
"Angry Uncle Gordon" describes me well.
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Beta-tester for Darthmod Empire, the default modification for Empire Total War that does not ask for your money behind patreon.
Developer of Causa Belli submod for Darthmod, headed by Hammeredalways and a ton of other people.
Developer of LtC: Random maps submod for Lands to Conquer (that brings a multitude of random maps and other features).