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Cletus Van Damme retweeted
It's the people who the English government would draft for a war, at which point there would surprisingly be no confusion at all.
Hope this helps.
What is this English ethnicity that "simply exists"? The Saxons? The Normans? Did you know that the term English was applied to the low-born who were ruled after the Norman conquest? Did the English know that they were English before the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
I know this is Twitter and that everything goes. It so happens that there are people who have devoted their whole career to the study of these issues too here, so I suggest you read a few history books before making absurd claims on an eternal English essence. I can suggest a reading list if you want.
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“Climate change” was almost completely discredited on points of fact, but the general feeling of environmental doom and emotional reflexes remained. This is now pointed nonsensically toward AI. Modern lifestyle requires a sort of secular millenarianism to rationalize itself (1/3)
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So many choices after the military campaign felt antithetical to how he’s always operated on foreign policy. Outside of literally this conflict, I can’t tell you a President that has better instincts on foreign policy. And even as I typed that, I don’t think anyone would’ve handled Iran any better either. The political fallout of this adds the weight but there’s still no President in modern history that matches his instincts on foreign policy despite this really bad mistake.
And it’s hard to say that without implying that “ISRAEL ALWAYS HAD HIM AND CRUSHED MAGA” but that’s not it at all, at least in my opinion. What seems to me is that it was a mix of fear and ego that drove him away from his instincts. Half his former allies were calling him the anti-Christ or working with those who did. The only ones that weren’t that had any outreach that mattered were retards on Fox News who he’s also turned against and begun to tune out.
This all probably seems like I’m trying to make excuses but I’ve followed Trump for a long time. I feel like anyone following him since he came down the escalator who isn’t mind raped by Israel (in both ways) would somewhat agree with my take on that. It’s all very speculative of course, I have no connections to the admin let alone to those in charge of war.
Cletus Van Damme retweeted
⬇️”I ain’t reading all that” type post below⬇️
I have my personal opinions on a lot of things about this administration, and most of them, the vast majority actually, are positive.
One lesson I will take, not that I did not already know it, is that despite feeling correct, and even if I am, it does not matter. I mentioned this a couple days ago in a post, but Ben Shapiro did us a great disservice by getting us comfortable with the phrase “facts do not care about your feelings.” It is completely the other way around.
This may be seen as cope, and that is okay. Maybe it is blackpilling, but we really need to take a lesson from Obama on how to quietly make radical change while appearing moderate and using fantastic messaging.
So many things we want are radical or take radical changes. I do not say radical in a necessarily partisan political way. We do need tariffs for reindustrialization, but people will use them as an easy scapegoat if things do not get better, and then they become toxic. They also needed to be implemented much more smoothly.
Like I have said in all my posts since the loss, a lot of these things do not make much of a difference when accounting for the war and the rise in fuel prices, but even that could have been sold so much better. Despite my support, that was clearly recognizable.
This “assuming you are always correct” thing might get worse on the Right. Groypers think they are the reason these midterms happened. Tucker thinks his disgusting traitorous rhetoric helped this. Plan trusters were really caught off guard by Democrat turnout. But Republicans showed up for the midterms. Republican support of Trump is not likely to go away anytime soon despite all of this. The main policies of MAGA, even more so. And that is a good thing.
It is upsetting, but we need to do better in these spaces. For reference, the 2014 midterms were considered high turnout for Republicans, and the number was 40 million. Things change and make them relatively different now, but even in a blue mega tsunami, the Republican raw total was 54 million. This is a clear sign of a pre Trump GOP and a present Trump GOP.
The AI issue, chiefly among this thinking, is one that really showed, just like nuclear energy. It doesn’t help that we have Altman and Dario trying to sink their industries to become the monopolies of the American AI industry or whatever gay reason they have for it.
Yes, the tone deafness of Trump mmay not have affected those who support Trump already and trust him, but we all need a normie sixth sense. Not to bend the knee to it, but to be able to decipher how we sell controversial policies and ideas. A rule I have discovered between both of Trump’s terms is that he can say anything he wants with a good economy, affordability wise of course, but when people do not feel that way, his behavior and choice of words get compounded negatively in the minds of voters. You can talk about Nicki Minaj’s fat ass all you want when things feel good, lmao. I know that is just one example, and I used the most egregious one to get the point across, but I feel like that point is understood.
I am upset that he made mistakes that led us to our loss too. But disregarding Trump is not a winning move and will lead to a bigger loss in 2028. We need to get leaner and more efficient of course, for lack of a better term, but a GOP that pretends like Trump did not exist will not win. We have more to offer as the GOP than ever before, at least in the last 30 years, but we still unfortunately need the infrastructure to sell these ideas.
Cletus Van Damme retweeted
It’s hard to get a true comparison of the swing between 2026 and 2024 because they were different elections. So heres the swing in 2026 in each state VERSUS the last Trump midterm in 2018, relative to the nation.
Regional differences are declining.
Cletus Van Damme retweeted
Was there a brief period after the election where "shy Trump voters" were emboldened before regressing to their normal M.O., or did voters genuinely vote Trump into office and then give him all of one month before saying, "guess i'll cut my dick off"🤷♂️
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there’s something psychologically terroristic about these kids books that are full of adult platitudes. “there’s nothing wrong with asking for help”. yeah. my 5 year old never would have thought there was. “you don’t have to be extraordinary to be loved”. do not tell my kid that
Cletus Van Damme retweeted
We live in a kind of stuck culture and this tends to have a political valence, because the culture we’re stuck in is a progressive one. But you see this even with some more right wing coded ideas, where you have, for example, multiple consecutive generations of people complaining that they were taught by the previous generation that all they needed to do was go to college and they’d have a good career.
What we see in many of these cases is that the complaint has long ago replaced its referent in the dominant culture.
To take a more typical progressive example, a culture organized around the complaint that little girls are told that they should stay in their place and not expect the same opportunities as men has long ago replaced any culture in which that was actually true.
So you end up in these absurd situations where you have entire institutions organized around teaching the opposite of their motivating complaint, but all the while acting as if they’re outsiders, even as they make the rules that in aggregate define the culture.
Cletus Van Damme retweeted
there are hundreds, maybe thousands of talented “rw” posters out there who can and do combat this in a haphazard, ad hoc way.
but the GOP won’t organize or fund them, so instead they spend $500M on boomer cable TV ads that result in maybe 20-50 votes.
🚨Coordinated Democratic Social Media Campaign to Win Midterms Revealed🚨
CNN’s Van Jones says Democrat operatives coordinated tens of thousands of people through the “American Accountability Network” to amplify their unaffordability message across social media.
“The Republicans never figured out what we were doing,” Jones said.
He described the participants as “online humans, not bots” and claimed the campaign generated 32.5 million daily hits on Instagram, 88.8 million on X and 185 million on Facebook
"Driving the kitchen table affordability message and tying that to Democrats on a positive and Republicans on a negative.....They couldn't get any traction on these cultural war issues anymore because we figured out how to get around all that."
Cletus Van Damme retweeted
"A German-American billionaire from South Africa is plotting with the Freemasons to raise up a Protestant antipope in Nashville" is the sort of thing you'd expect to find in a bad Walker Percy imitator, and yet the Lord Himself has written it on the canvas of history.
NEW: In leaked recordings, Peter Thiel argued that Nashville should be a moral alternative to Pope Leo XIV and the Catholic Church, which he called “a dubious ally” against a hypothetical future Antichrist Democratic president.
“America is the last and final form of the Roman Empire,” Thiel told a closed-door crowd in Nashville’s Masonic Temple. “There is no successor.”
He has attacked Pope Leo XIV at least four times this year, once calling him “a useful idiot for the CCP.” thelettersfromleo.com/p/the-…
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It's funny that Kaczynski dedicated 10,000 words to shitting on libtards, while his criticism of conservatives was a single paragraph that read: "You guys are fools for thinking that you can maintain traditional values while radically altering the material conditions of society."
Cletus Van Damme retweeted
The last time Stephen Miller posted about Israel, Joe Biden was president
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30 years from now Stephen Miller will have the most fascinating memoirs ever put to paper in the 21st century
Cletus Van Damme retweeted
This is something the Community Relations Service used to do, too; Before a busing program launched, get all the news media together for a meeting to go over “best practices” for reporting on school integration.
If there is an incident of violence at a school as a result of busing, best practices include:
- No on-camera interviews with participants or “agitators”
- Avoid inflammatory words like “brutal” or “savage”
- Panoramic shots only, no closeups of blood or weapons
- Don’t report on any story without letting the point person at the school district comment and confirm
- Emphasize that busing is “the law of the land,” so the best thing for everyone is to accept its inevitability and try to make it work
Obviously the effect of these rules was to suppress the public’s awareness of school violence. Even today it is difficult to find sources that describe the violence we all know was happening.
Cletus Van Damme retweeted
Facebook took down videos of violence against Trump supporters for violating its policies on depictions of bullying, but video of violence against liberal targets was left up under the “newsworthy” exception.
If you wonder why there is never a white Republican George Floyd, it’s because the entire system is set up to prevent such a thing from happening.
Sacred victims are like political fuel, they give your side energy, which is why the right can never be allowed to have any.
The inability of the right to turn these horrific stories into a "national conversation" about anti-white hate with wall-to-wall coverage in the legacy media is one of the reasons it loses to the left. The media only jumps into action when the story gives them the opportunity to demonize white people. Radio Rwanda, with American characteristics.