Politics

[Brent in Az]

An 11 point jump in the economic approval rating. The best is yet to come.

 

[Brent in Az]

A win for California gun owners.

Federal appeals court rules California ammunition background checks unconstitutional

A federal appeals court ruled that California's law requiring gun owners to undergo background checks to purchase ammunition violates the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Betterinthebush]

AI surveillance and data colonialism shape African conflicts - Africa in Fact

On 3 November 2021, Professor Meareg Amare, a respected chemistry academic at Bahir Dar University in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, was gunned down outside his home by men wearing special forces uniforms. He lay dying in the street for seven hours while his killers warned onlookers they too would be...

africainfact.com

I noticed the enormous amount of money china was pouring into Namibia. There was new fiber optic cables being plowed in from Windhoek toward Otjiwarongo (I presume transport to accommodate future tower construction) and newer distribution fiber on aerial strand (judging from the splitter and splice cases) serving rural customers. Not to mention the new bypass road being built from Uis to Henties Bay.

That much money, they’re definitely going to want to monitor the population.

 

[spike.t]

Bloody Chinese....

UK condemns Hong Kong cash offer for help in arresting activists

David Lammy and Yvette Cooper describe the bounties as "another example of transnational repression".

www.bbc.com

 

[Red Leg]

The photos of Trudeau and Fidel are rather remarkable. But in this clip, even the facial expressions are remarkably similar. Genetics are a powerful thing.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1949010224527859896

 

[Tanks]

A win for California gun owners.

Federal appeals court rules California ammunition background checks unconstitutional

A federal appeals court ruled that California's law requiring gun owners to undergo background checks to purchase ammunition violates the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

www.foxnews.com

For now. State most likely will ask for an En banc decision by the mostly Democrat appointed 9th circuit

 

[spike.t]

The photos of Trudeau and Fidel are rather remarkable. But in this clip, even the facial expressions are remarkably similar. Genetics are a powerful thing.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1949010224527859896

Someone needs to get some turdeau dna from something...can't be that difficult

 

[DmacD]

That's part of the reason why Canada is so far in the shit today.
Those Communist ideologies crept into Trudeau's government, and really put us in the hole.
Want DNA proof that Castro is his father? Shouldn't be too hard to find some DNA samples, Trudeau has been squirting them out all over Ottawa. Just ask his ex-wife.

 

[Altitude sickness]

Listening to Castro explain his form of government is hilarious.

You could transpose every past Socialist or Communist up and comer. From Viet Nam, Korea, South America, a few European nations. New York, Chicago and LA. They each think their form of Social Justice and wealth redistribution is original. And they are smarter than all the failures before them.

Their version is different.

But they never are, and it always ends up with them holding all the wealth and everyone else in bread lines.

 

[Altitude sickness]

Here is a more contemporary example of the archetype Socialist and then the reality.

The Bill Always Comes Due: AOC's Designer Hypocrisy Finally Catches Up to Her

She preached. Now she's paying up.

istandforfreedom.com

 

[Aaron N]

The photos of Trudeau and Fidel are rather remarkable. But in this clip, even the facial expressions are remarkably similar. Genetics are a powerful thing.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1949010224527859896

There you go with your tinfoil hat again!

 

[cwpayton]

It is a rather long list of failed Trump supported senate candidates - Hershel Walker, Kelly Tshibaka, Blake Masters, Adam Laxalt, Mehmet Oz, Don Bolduc, Leora Levy, and Gerald Malloy.

He actually lost in Georgia three times counting the damage done to the candidacies of Perdue and Loeffler when the true believers stayed home in the runoff because they were convinced by Trump and his minions that their vote would not count. Speaks to the dissatisfaction with the radical drift of the democrat party that the republicans have a majority in the senate.

A MAGA approved challenge should work out great in Maine.

Adam Laxalt lost his senate race to Cortez Masto by .8 %. all mail in ballots. 48 to 48.8 %. mail in ballots made the difference. years later the state purged 162,000 voters from the rolls. Not that it matters now but it did then , Nevada's yote is notoriously suspect in fraud in June of 2024 clark county alone remover about 100,000 voters. hmmmm what if they did that a few years earlier, would Cortez still be senator.
The republican Gov. vetoed a bill to require voter ID , again hmmmm, nothing to see here. as the bill was backed by the republican senate.
all conspiracy theory but fun facts are hard to over look.

 

[cwpayton]

One of my first out of country hunts was 65 years ago to British Columbia elk hunting. My guide had picked up an attractive hitch hiker and was blinded by love. She was supposed to watch his cabin while we hunted. When we returned she was gone and so were my valuables including my money clip i had hidden in the toe of a shoe. Since then my money stays in a belt at all times. During the decades of travel since then a couple knives have disappeared from luggage and a camera from a tent.
Have had three special trophies exchanged for smaller ones. I still have the memories of the hunts

Thats exactly why I like mounts, too remember the hunt, not to display their size.

 

[Wishfulthinker580]

I didn't watch all of this, but the opening implies that the people who are "acting up" and leading us to civil war are whites in fear of loosing their status? Perhaps recent voting patterns which defy this racial divide and the underlying basis of Betz's theory of civil violence was missed at King's College?

Thought it was an interesting video. Kisin challenged him on those subjects and he really had no answer. Whole argument fell apart

 

[WAB]

The photos of Trudeau and Fidel are rather remarkable. But in this clip, even the facial expressions are remarkably similar. Genetics are a powerful thing.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1949010224527859896

Even more damning of pictures of him beside Pierre Trudeau at the same age. Zero resemblance. Maggie was a wild woman!

 

[Alistair]

Thought it was an interesting video. Kisin challenged him on those subjects and he really had no answer. Whole argument fell apart

I think it's worth remembering that it's a UK focused channel, and a UK focused discussion.

That matters for a simple reason, and it's a reason that is relevant in basically any country: If 'your group' is already quietly and effectively sliding into a position of authority within the bounds of the current political paradigm, then there is little point in 'rebelling'. Why would you? You're already winning. As a US-centric example, extreme right wingers were angry under Biden, and might have rioted, maybe even contemplated widespread civil war if they thought they had the support (which they didn't have). Under Trump, that's far less likely.

In the UK, people who aren't 'right leaning, white', aren't going to rebel to a meaningful degree for that reason. Sure, you'll have some fringes within that group who complain the shift isn't moving fast enough. But they remain fringe, and they're getting more fringe as more and more power is concentrated within the group that they hope to draw support from. The elephant in the room group, whom the discussion touches on - immigrant Muslims - are more secure today than they have been at any time in the countries history, for example.

If anything, and in my opinion, the militant fringes of that group will be the minority who will provide the 'spark' for a real backlash. They won't be the ones leading the rebellion. The Bradford stuff proves that, as does any number of other examples in the past 4 or so years.

The 'Reform' right however, was, and is, a powerful voting block. Possibly even a plurality. They've traditionally been the ones calling the shots, and now they feel they're getting more and more marginalized with every passing day. Right now, that leads to grumbling, low level political dissatisfaction, the odd low level riot like last summer. But in 6 months? In 12 months? The current Labour government is doing nothing to convince them that conventional political means will be a 'solve', so they get less and less satisfied.

Either Nigel wins the next election, or that tension continues to build. Arguably, even if Nigel does, he won't be able to effect meaningful change, which damages confidence in the 'conventional system' even more.

My only real counterpoint to the discussion; In my opinion, and having lived in both, the UK is a fair bit behind the US political cycle on the 'loss of confidence in the state, loss of faith in political process, loss of trust in politicians'. As such, if I had to guess, the UK today sits about where the US was prior to 2020, possibly even prior to 2016. In that framework, I think the next spark will lead to major riots, just as the BLM stuff did in 2020, but won't lead to a full on civil war.

However, the UK hasn't yet had a Trump. For this political block in the UK, they're still very much in the 'Uniparty, nothing change, no solution' mindset. Righly or wrongly, Trump did manage to head that pressure off in the US by selling the story of 'radical change within political bounds'. Is it true? Probably not, but it's enough to calm that group.

In the UK, either Nigel suceeds in doing a Trump and selling the story of radical change to those dissatisfied group and calms things down in the same way that the US did, or he fails to do a Trump, and makes things worse. We shall see I guess.

 

[Wishfulthinker580]

I apologize for my last response to you @rookhawk. Don’t know why I responded in that manner. It was unnecessarily harsh and rude.

 

[1dirthawker]

I apologize for my last response to you @rookhawk. Don’t know why I responded in that manner. It was unnecessarily harsh and rude.

takes a grown up to admit they think they are wrong, well done.

 

[Betterinthebush]

Meanwhile, on the Thai/Khemer border war;

https://twitter.com/x/status/1949098277212713365

A little history on the seriousness of the Thai’s and their love and honor of their elephants of war; https://ancient-asia.blogspot.com/2025/04/thailands-elephant-army-special-forces.html?m=1

 

[375 Ruger Fan]