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5d ago
But what could he do to improve the economy for the average person? He tried to get more jobs for normal people but shutting down H1-Bs and deportations.
The only other thing he could have tried is wrecking the current health care system and doing a full libertarian reboot but the short term pain would have crushed him.
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5d ago
The economy is not rekt. Stocks at all time highs. Oil prices especially after accounting for fuel efficient are like 40% of 2 decades ago.
Some legit K-shaped issues but no one has proposed a good way to solve that issue.
Bernie Sanders of 2016 would seem like a great candidate for today.
But still the economy can not get much better than it is right now. The biggest issue is unemployed males which are booming mostly thru leaving the labor market.
I don’t like losing elections. So Jews either need to figure out how to win American elections or it’s Ciao. Sure some deep state connections will continue but not much else.
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6d ago
I don’t mean necessarily today that Israel falls, but I do think a S Africa path is becoming politically possible.
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6d ago
I’m not crying over any votes losts over ICE. That’s where you needed to spend political capital.
I guess it’s a cliche to say move to Canada but the right does need to think about serious investments with Peter Thiel into S America. Maybe you can actually built a refuge for a century there.
These midterms scare me.
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The Country feels ungovernable to me now. I don’t think there is a true majority to rule in any direction. We have a right, a left, and some entirely confused middle. In theory you should run like Mitt Romney or some boring dude and crush it but I don’t think voter distributions are linear like that. The country just from Trump being able to win the popular vote to Sayed’s winning elections easily.
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I’m honestly scared with Texas going blue. Demographically it seemed like that was a risks in decades. It’s been very important in terms of deregulation and keeping America moving forward in the physical world. Texas can’t be a California version of Texas. Florida I don’t believe can be Texas in US politics. Florida might be the home of the red tribe now but geographically I just don’t think it can be a manufacturing, agricultural, and scientific hub that is Texas. Before recent history Florida sold sunshine and Texas sold Oil.
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Palestine has a realistic path of defeating Israel now. Israel has zero friends now. Sayed’s are the new breed US politicians.
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There is little chance at stopping third world US. A better Brazil has to be the copium now. Somehow you need to keep out the wrong parts of the Middle East and India from America and close the border to Africa. If America starts getting lower caste Indians instead of Brahmins then it’s over.
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I’m somewhat becoming a socialists with AI. It somewhat already feels like only 10% of Americans are productive + a huge medical industrial complex + it feels like a huge amount of America is already on UBI. Maybe AI is just going to turn all of commerce into what happened in agriculture (from 90% of population to 2%)
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The only Democratically viable election strategy seems to be to lean into Hispanic voters. You can probably partner with them to keep Somalians out of the country. There vote appears to be what shifted Texas blue.
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You might also need to figure out how to play Indian caste politics to get current Indians to agree with limiting unlimited Indian immigrants.
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6d ago
There is just very little ability to operate anymore as POTUS and contrarian and flakiness is high.
Trump is the only POTUS I’ve loved and it’s now apparent that America can’t be governed. He’s largely delivered on campaign promises and got crushed.
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6d ago
I mean they also gave you blank checks to protect your tribe so at the very least extremely useful.
The Left Behind books seem like they were 20 years ago now so I am not sure that is entirely the reasoning behind why Evangelicals still support today.
Regardless, after these mid-term only a stupid politician would ever show any support to Israel or Jewish interests. I like be Jews but I like the interests of my people better and being friends with Jews makes you no longer have political power.
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6d ago
“ 'Fraud' implies that the person getting the benefit has lied to get something they don't deserve, but that is simply not the case here.”
- this is a third world definition of fraud and not a definition of an Anglo country. We should create military disability programs that are light on verification in an Anglo society to make sure that no one who really needs it doesn’t get it. But a person capable of holding a job should get a job. It should be easy to get but Americans should be too proud to apply for it. When Americans vote for politicians to support military veterans they assume it’s for people with real injuries.
I would be shocked if we’ve even had 1.35 million actual combat personal since Vietnam.
I find your view abhorrent disgusting and I would strip you of citizenship if I could.
And I won’t just call this fraud. It’s also fraud when 13% of Americans are on food stamps and my local convenience store pays $20 an hour. 13% of Americans do not lack the ability to feed themselves.
My mom cared for my uncle who was basically in bed for 2 decades from Vietnam. That’s a disability. It’s entirely disgusting that people are abusing the programs that were meant for him.
So yes go get a fucking job and get off welfare.
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6d ago
America is a Christian country and to be honest has largely converted from a Protestant Country to a Catholic Country since FDR.
So why would a Catholic Country care that AOC is Catholic? There aren’t any significant policy differences anymore.
It has nothing to do with devotion.
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6d ago
It’s better for Israel to get out of the direct aid game in the current political environment. American politics are very partisan now and you don’t want Israel to be an issue. Quiet support when they need it is probably better. The old game where everyone supported Jews because of Holocaust is dead.
And honestly as a Republican I asks myself why do we support Israel? Jews mostly hate Republicans. I saw a favorability ranking of Evangelicals among Jews and it’s -40%. Evangelicals have long heavily supported Israel and it’s not even that Jews don’t vote with Evangelicals…..they hate them.
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6d ago
I think the word usage here can vary. Looking the meaning up it sometimes requires worship of pre-Christian gods but can also use definitions like this: “ Historically, terms like heathen or infidel were used interchangeably, and literary contexts sometimes use "pagan" to describe a non-religious person who enjoys material or sensory pleasures.” I feel like I can fit Trump/Thiel into these definitions and also other areas that feel like pre-Christian Rome. Things like separating the world between third and first worlders.
I also don’t like calling everything secular pagan as I’ve always felt woke retained a lot of Christian theology in their moral frameworks.
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6d ago
So if someone doesn’t have an actual injury that prevents them from working but gets disability that’s not fraud?
I 100% agree there are real cases of military disability but that in no way contradicts my point that many cases of military disability appear to be essentially fraud.
We currently have 1.85 million Americans with 100% disability rankings in 2026. In 2015 we had 493k veterans with 100% disability ratings. The US withdrew from Iraq in 2011. Afghanistan we only had like max 20k troops since 2014. So where did 1.3 million fully disabled veterans come from? These are massive numbers. Since 9/11 we have 2.7 million Americans who have deployed.
So yes a 50% rate of “fully” disabled is insane. And most people in the military do not serve in combat roles.
Just because a group has a “sympathetic core” does not mean that there aren’t a huge amount of people adjacent to the core abusing the system.
And yes if you are fully capable of running a Senate Campaign then you are not 100% disabled so we even have very high profile cases of obvious fraud.
My 90% fraud might be too high. The 2014 disability numbers are likely mostly true cases.
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6d ago
I think their are spots a MINO could fit into the red tribe. I call it the pagan right and I would call Peter Thiel the leading proponent of it.
Obviously, a MINO would not fit in with the Christian right which is probably still the largest right wing coalition partner. A MINO has basically depersoned themselves. They no longer have a central ideology and have fallen into global homogenism. No longer having a cultural tradition they are attached to then yes that does not fit with the definition of conservativism which is about maintaining traditions.
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6d ago
Maybe I am online too much but most people who follow the data collection on military disability pay realize it’s a lot of healthy people getting disability who spent a couple years in the military. To begin to educate you on the issue look at Graham Platner who ran for Senate and runs a farm while getting a 100% military disability rating.
If you are serious curious spend a half hour with Google and AI to see why policy wonks consider military disability as semi-legal fraud now.
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7d ago
DEI complicates it. Did he qualify for DEI? As far as I know he would be a white male bucket. I believe in the American system Egyptian counts as white.
On the plus side I have him for: Double engineer parents, charismatic, above average looking, Columbia Med School.
Rhodes does do too much individual DEI and is meaningless in modern day.
Mid: UMICH. This is my midtwit line between EHC and Average. The smarter grads are fine especially as a white male
If he got into Columbia as a white male then he’s 100% elite EHC. If not he’s probably just smart.
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7d ago
El-Sayed is obviously whatever Hannania liked to promote as Elite Human Capital. If you are filtering for talent he’s the far right tail of Egyptian ancestry people and there probably are not many Egyptian Copts above him.
So he fits perfectly with America should take in the top .1% of shithole third world country people.
So that is why you take him. Culturally though America is always going to be a weird fit for him. The uncultural fit for people like him is to completely drop religious identity and join the global homo NYT reading blob. A lot of America still has a lot of Christian influence and being Muslim or atheists doesn’t weld very well to those places.
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7d ago
El-Sayed identity is what I’m trying to find out here. If he’s closer to MB then being anti-Israel is obviously his type. I think the not religious MINO types have affection for Palestinians because it feels like your tribe/team. I don’t think general MINO types thought about Israel before it was in the news everyday.
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7d ago
I can’t tell how stretchy that is in practice but here is one line I found in that article, “ Safeguarding of a Muslim's life is a mandatory obligation that should be observed; and that lying is permissible when the shedding of a Muslim's blood is at stake.”
I feel Israel is indirect but this would seem in a very stretchy way he could advocate for trans rights if he thinks more Democrats means less Israel funding and therefore less dead Muslims. Which opens the door for him being full Muslim Brotherhood.
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7d ago
Are devout Muslims allowed to lie to non-Muslims to advance Islamic interests? A devout Christian could not for example sell a non-Christian on the benefits of trans in schools. It’s a sin to lead others to sin.
A reminder that when an Evangelical bombs a Muslim country they have to wrap the bombs in “for Democracy” and “women’s school”. Bush had to bomb Muslims for human rights and not because they were Muslims.
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7d ago
Shutting these things down is 100% good for me besides simply saving money.
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7d ago
Her MINO category fits with every “Muslim” I have ever met. I don’t believe you can be both “Muslim” and “Western”. Real Muslims would be hated by blue and red tribe. I have many MINO friends but no Muslim friends. My vibes on Sayed is he’s one of these MINOs. His family probably does have some Muslim Brotherhood ties, but he vibes fully secularized to me.
The anti-Israel in his worldview feels very much like sports team fandom to me. I am not sure if Sayed types have to be anti-Israel but if you are a Democratic politician today and Democrats hate Israel then rooting for the Muslim side feels like the correct team to cheer for.
I do have a MINO friend whose family loves Trump so they can play for either side. I think a struggle for these types comes down to having to adopt someone else’s culture - Western Culture - instead of being born into it.
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7d ago
To be honest I don’t think you can be Muslim and a Democrat in the same way that you can’t be Catholic and a Democrat. You can be a skinsuit globally homogenous Democrat who by virtue of ancestry are Muslim but follow Muslim beliefs. An ethnic Muslim but not a religious Muslim.
Trans is one example where a real Muslim’s response could be nothing less than trans mental people have a mental illness and should be locked up. And there really is no way to sugar coat that while maintaining spiritual connection to god.
I can’t see “anti-Israel” being a core belief that drives all of your beliefs but a symptom of a broader world view. For a typical progressive I think their mental model flows primarily thru an “oppressor-oppressed” framework which makes a progressive good person because they fight for the weak. Israel therefore is the bad side of this framework because they are rich.
The best mental model I can come up with Sayed is to model him on wealthy brown friends who are non-religious but tend dislike Israel for a vague tribal connection feeling similar to how an American with an Irish name supports Ireland. Basically the same reason I hate a few sports teams.
Your modestly cherry-picking a low price during the time frame.
https://www.macrotrends.net/3591/us-gasoline-prices
And to be perfectly fair for affordable it would be better to compare to a wage index. Inflation comp makes sense to compare too but affordability would be wages.
Just eyeballing peak war gas prices are inflation adjusted basically 2006. Wage adjusted guessing 30% cheaper. Adjusted for fuel efficiency even cheaper. And some reason I remember back than seeing north of $5/gallon though I’m guessing that data isn’t adjusting for taxes.
Looked at a Brent crude chart and it peaked $12 higher in 2008 then the highest price during the Iran War. Oil is definitely a lot cheaper today than what we’ve had historically.
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