American Unity Joe

@pmarca As chance would have it, this is the post I saw immediately before yours. Sounds grim, but I'm sure it's nothing. x.com/LayoffAI/statu…

And so the myth of technology-driven unemployment dies once again.

I often note how different things might be if he were alive today. Far from taking complete responsibility, as he so nobly did, he probably would have blamed it on the evils of a capitalist system that forced his dear mother to lose her grip, never mind the slow but steady decline of the Church that rendered his religious studies all but useless.

@GraduatedBen Even under these conditions of malaise he was the one and only rebel child in the family. Other siblings lived a humble life, you could even say a meek one. Just shows the salt of the earth quality of the heritage white underclass even under the darkest of “structural” environs.

“But no one wants to talk about why Merle Haggard turned twenty-one in prison doing life without parole, despite the best efforts of his mother. They don’t want you to know that the mass displacement of farming families during the Dust Bowl broke communities and families for generations. Because that would mean talking about the banks.”

Do you truly understand what Japan just gained? As a Japanese citizen, I’m telling you—this moment changed history. Trump's Pearl Harbor joke wasn't an insult. It was the key that finally unlocked something buried deep in the Japanese soul. For 80 long years, we've carried apology and guilt like a permanent shadow—haunted by the past, bound by the Constitution America wrote for us, forever in "reflection mode." He turned that raw wound into a shared laugh between equals. No more endless atonement. No more vassal shadow. The curse is broken. Japan is free now. Thank you, Mr. President. We're allowed to stand tall again—as true partners, not subordinates. The strongest alliance in the world is rising—equals, brothers, ride-or-die. #PhoenixRising

Hate existed yesterday and it will exist tomorrow. But so does something stronger. The promise of America. That no matter where you come from, who you are, or what you believe, you can live freely, contribute meaningfully, and belong. Hate divides. The American promise unites. And it is worth defending. @BuildersMvt

@DanielLubetzky @KINDSnacks Ever notice how 'I'm just being realistic' is always about hitting the brakes and never about hitting the accelerator?

Never be satisfied. Be in the world of possibilities, not the world of realities. At @KINDSnacks, we trained our team members to think this way. We would start by asking: “What is your first objective?” The answer was always the same: Get the product in stores. Okay, great. Once that’s done, what else can you do? Instead of getting one item into the store, can you get three items in the store? Okay, now what else can you do? Can you move the product from the bottom shelf to eye level? What else can you do? That mindset is powerful. You keep pushing. You keep asking the question again and again. What else can you do? There is never enough. You can never be satisfied. You have to leave no stone unturned. The moment you think you’ve done enough, you stop seeing the possibilities in front of you. When you live in the world of possibilities, instead of the world of realities, you start discovering opportunities that others miss. #BusinessAdvice

'Should the civilization that made the individual possible finally collapse, the backward man will still be congratulating himself before the darkness falls on him too.' Amen. This is a profoundly important point that needs to be widely disseminated and understood if we're going to save the American way. Really hope this takes off like a rocket when it comes out. 🙏🇺🇸

It's a good analogy, so let's take it a bit further. Alarms don't put out fires. Water does. If all we're doing it sounding the alarm, people become frustrated and demoralized at the lack of water and tune out the noise entirely. So the pressing issue isn't how can we more effectively sound the alarm as much as it is how can we be like water? 🤔

Something approximating this scenario is unfolding right now on the political Right. There is a fire, ignited by malign forces, that takes the shape of Wokeness, bigotry, isolationism, anti-institutionalism, and antisemitism. It carries qualities of both Marxism and Fascism and is rooted in foreign influence as much as outright foolishness. Its champions and mouthpieces are well established media figures and former government officials. People who road Trump’s coattails and ingratiated themselves with MAGA through years of emotional monologues, memetic content, and careful manipulation of their audiences. Many people are sounding the alarm, many have been for years, yet the audience—thanks to years of agitprop and counter-programming—perceives the warnings as a joke. They see the people shouting “Fire!” as clowns on a stage. It is a profoundly dangerous situation for the “audience,” the “clowns,” and—most concerningly—for our country.

@chrissomebody @NiohBerg Was just gonna say but you beat me to it. Great minds think alike, and apparently so do ours. 🤣 Your bio says you ain't here to please me. Nevertheless you have. Sorry, not sorry. And don't call me buttercup. I hate that. 😎

@NiohBerg Apparently, death comes at them even faster than life.

Life comes at you fast.

@ZacKaizen You mean like he himself just low key did right there? Yeah, it's ghoulish and disgraceful, but such is our world. Except when it isn't.

@ConceptualJames It is getting incredibly sickening seeing people try to use his name to further their own agendas. 😡

As far as I know and have every reason to believe, Charlie Kirk was my friend. I cannot express in any way whatsoever, verbally or not, how much I resent seeing people use things he said or just may have said to advance agendas while standing on his coffin in its eternal silence.

May God bless the Iranian people with their independence from tyranny in time to be our very special guests in spirit at the Independence Day celebration of America's 250th birthday. 🙏🇺🇸🙏🇮🇷

I fully agree there's no getting rid of God and wouldn't dream of denying His existence. I don't buy the standard tale as it is put forth inside the JL tent because I watched it all unfold in real time. His reporting of it is disingenuous to say the least. He's constantly painting himself as a victim with the canceled bit, but before his galactically stupid St. Michael blunder, he was doing everything he could to ingratiate himself in that whole grifter crowd. When Trump won, he was actively gunning for a spot in the admin, all while MOF was busy trashing Vance and the rest of the cabinet picks. When he didn't get his spot, just as we had the high ground and had clearly put woke on its heals, he immediately went on a bitter scorched earth campaign about the woke right stuff and played his own motte and bailey on that to the hilt. For all the time I've known of him, the one constant, just like the left, is conflict. He ALWAYS has beef with someone and no matter how he tries to paint it in righteous tones, he is always working to sow discord and he is always seeking to control. For all his talk of the friend/enemy distinction, he always sets things up along friend/enemy lines. As so many have pointed out, if he's accusing others of it, you can be sure he's doing it himself. Look, I hate that whole CN thing, along with CO and NF and all the rest of those crazy grifters. I don't consume that shit and want nothing to do with them. But I can't help but noticing that he's doing everything he can to churn the dialectic with them. By making himself as odious as possible with his unchecked narcissism and unquenchable thirst for 'being right' and being glazed for it by his followers, he poisons the very ground he's supposed to be defending. It's sus af.

First, there is no "getting rid of God." We can choose to deny God's existence, but I can also choose to deny anything I find troubling. Denying something exists doesn't make it so. But as to James, I'd believe that he really has given up on new atheism and sees its folly. His decisions certainly reflect that in that he has, at great personal cost, stood up for truth in the face of woke everywhere it has turned up. The careers and fortunes of those who go along with the grift tend to wax while James' has pretty clearly waned.

Nothing Lindsay nor O'Fallon has said since I've been paying attention to them is "against Christian morality in American politics." I've never heard either of them say anything to "oppose Christians advancing a biblically-grounded moral vision of law and politics." What they do oppose--and what I and every patriotic Christian also oppose--is a state that is "going to impose [Wolfe's morality] upon you" and a state that that allows Wolfe to "enforce my morality on you." Christian faith cannot be imposed. Faith is within the heart, an intensely personal thing. It is between each person and God. It is the Holy Spirit calling individuals, who respond with faith and obedience to Christ. Christianity is not Islam, in which it is sufficient for a third party--the state--to enforce statutes of religious law. Christ died that we may be free of such a law, and he called the Pharisees who practiced what Wolfe envisions the children of Satan. And, as children of Satan, Christian nationalists are happy to lie and to bear false witness as they have against Lindsay and O'Fallon. Truth does not concern them unless it serves their interest, and they have exactly one interest: power. There is nothing Christian about Christian nationalism.

I am 100% against CN, but although I was once a fan of both, I no longer trust JL or MOF. At all. Did you ever wonder why, of all the people MOF could have gone into business with back in 17, a supposedly devout Christian would choose two avowed atheists and rabid anti-theists? We're told they have outgrown their old views, but this is still in line with those same views and it's still up on ND. Social Justice isn’t a substitute for religion; it’s a roughly religious structure that services the same human needs that religions do from within a remarkably different paradigm. This difference is significant because if we see Social Justice (among other movements) as a substitute for religion, the obvious prescription seems to be to reinstate religion to give the masses their sociocultural opium and get society back on track. This, in fact, is a path we see people attempting to encourage already—unsurprisingly, with the many attendant epicycles (such as that religious truth is “evolved truth”) necessitated by living in a post-Enlightenment world. That will not work. God is dead, and dead things don’t come back to life, even when they’re God (Christians may need to deal with this point in their own ways). It reminds me of what Nietzsche observes in The Gay Science, 'God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we—we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.' Postmodern Religion and the Faith of Social Justice James Lindsay, New Discourses. June 18, 2020

This is what the fuss about the New Atheist stuff was about. When you put it in context with the endless conflict he is waging against the other pole in the dialectic, it seems kinda relevant. This is one source of where the talk of infiltration comes in. Outside the tent, 'oh, I don't believe that anymore' doesn't hold the same pop as inside the tent, nor does the vague bit about 'oh, I've since repented.' With Everybody Is Wrong About God, God—and with it atheism—is finally and unequivocally interred. James Lindsay is the undertaker. —Peter Boghossian INTRODUCTION: THE NEXT RATIONAL MOVE The next rational move: Considering the entire theistic enterprise beneath serious consideration. —Peter Boghossian Philosopher and author Peter Boghossian tweeted this on June 18, 2014,1 paraphrasing something extremely similar that I had just sent him in an email. We were having a discussion about the future of society, one focused on getting toward a goal we share with many others: helping our society become properly post-God and post-faith. After the tweet, our email conversation continued, leading to the realization that this simple idea—considering the entire theistic enterprise beneath serious consideration—was the final step in getting rid of God for good, and Pete said so. He suggested “The Final Step in Getting Rid of God” as a first stab at a working subtitle for this very book, which was in the conceptual phases at the time. I completed his thought some hours later; the final step in getting rid of God is getting rid of God.

@IPostAndGhost No idea. I haven't read any of his new atheist material. Seems pretty irrelevant now. 🤷‍♂️

@WarClandestine Ever since I saw the way he phrased it in that first post back in February, I have assumed it wasn't going to pass and haven't been paying attention to the drama because of it.

Will the SAVE America Act pass the Senate? It appears unlikely at the moment, but the way I see it, Trump didn’t come this far to be stopped at the goal line and leave the future of the Republic to chance. Election security is National Security, and Trump already told us that voter-ID will be implemented, whether approved by Congress or not. Now, there are some serious optical advantages to getting the Dems on record opposing voter-ID/election security, so holding a vote that doesn’t pass has value, but the SAVE America Act is not passing via 60 votes in the Senate. It’s not passing unless there is a rule change to a simple majority via nuclear option or talking filibuster. However, this struggle could be exactly what Trump wants. I think Trump wants all the Dems on record opposing voter-ID, despite 90% of Americans wanting voter-ID. Then once Trump has the optics he wants, and the American public have thoroughly seen that the Dems oppose the will of the American People, he can then go the Executive Order route. If the Senate GOP eventually grow some balls and pass the bill with a simple majority, fantastic, but I don’t see it happening unless there is a massive and rapid shift in attitude from Thune and other Senate GOP leadership. So what’s my point? Don’t freak out if the SAVE America Act doesn’t pass the Senate right away. Trump has a plan, and he is not leaving this situation up to chance.

I saw the whining about the WH UNDEFEATED clip yesterday, how the weren't sober people yadda and thought way to miss the point. I saw it projecting just this absolute dominance in support and an 'in it to win it' attitude as a blunt reminder that the new boss ain't the same as the old boss. That has to be so damn heartening to the fighters after all the heartbreak of previous campaigns, never mind what it says to our adversaries, especially the ones posing as allies. Tectonic times ahead.

This tells me we have total air superiority.

@stephenie808 @Roots_n_Reason @BretWeinstein Game recognizes game. 😎🇺🇸

@AmericanUnity76 @Roots_n_Reason @BretWeinstein Well spoken sir!

Starting a war is a sobering prospect, yet the people who started this war are not sober.

I won't pretend to be surprised, but it is striking how the plight of the Iranian people is absolutely inconsequential to these charlatans. The best they can do is a 'sure, the regime is bad, but' brush off before the main job of supporting that murderous regime while trashing America commences.

OR In Iran, I am glad we are living the principles we have long proclaimed. We are breaking the shackles of the Iranian people by destroying the tyranny that oppresses them and threatens us and the rest of the free world. You're welcome Nik

@JustJamesMedic @impetro9 Whoa, calm down. No need to make a Federalist case out of it. 😆

@impetro9 Ahh yes, because no one of any consequence in American history has every opined under a pseudonym

This is a vital point, and one missed by all the high-minded whiners like Brett and this guy here. As you might imagine, this 'more in sorrow than anger' hand-wringing is a one-way street. The 'never seen something so profoundly inhuman in 50 years' notion is interesting in that it focuses on one side while ignoring the profoundly inhuman act of indiscriminately slaughtering tens of thousands of Iranians. Somehow that is overlooked or waved away in all the 'outrage' at the response to that slaughter, a response that is brutal, yet tightly focused on military targets as opposed to the general populace. I'd wager dollars to donuts, the two groups that understand and approve of this mustering of that dark nature you cite are those actually fighting against the darker nature of the mullahs, the troops involved and the Iranian people who are so joyously cheering it on.

@Roots_n_Reason @BretWeinstein I would argue it is an adaptive approach to muster that darkest nature: the nature that allows us to kill to protect our kin. Ain’t nothing inhuman about that. Been going on a long, long time and now that the end of history failed, it will be needed again.

Yeah, all life matters. But it matters less to some than others. Those mullahs that thought so little of the life of the people of Iran that they didn't hesitate to slaughter them by the tens of thousands have already stated that they are willing to do it again. Maybe you can make an appointment for the mullahs to see that doctor you cite, but I'm guessing they won't listen to you any more than you are listening to the Iranians who are daily expressing their full-throated approval of that which you condemn. Seems like their lives aren't part of your calculus.

@AmericanUnity76 @molsjames @BretWeinstein Yes it is disrespectful as it cheapens human life. All life matters & anyone who thinks they're better than another because of a flag needs to see the doctor. Preferably a Dr who is independent & will give solid care rather than a shot of the same old shit