Reagan’s Ghost

@micah_erfan “Did” what? This a projection based on his increased taxes and his team’s projections. No one ever debated that you could balance that on a spreadsheet. We told you that it wouldn’t come true once it starts to play out in real life. And it won’t.

He did this without cutting any social services, btw.

@eliotranch Let’s start with this - the left wing politicians you support don’t want the same things you want.

Explain to me how mass immigration is a 'left wing' concept. I can't fathom how people swallowed this idea wholesale. - Endless supply of cheap labour helps capitalists, not workers - Strip mining of talent from developing countries is a form of neocolonialism - Endless pressure on the housing market inflates assets and prevents the poorest from having reasonably priced homes - A refusal to train enough people here removes vocation paths that the working class used to follow - The most negative social and cultural second order consequences are happening to working class, deindustrialised or neglected areas So it's left wing how? I can see how anti-immigrant sentiment can be seen as ethnonationalism and therefore right wing. But I can't see how support for mass immigration is left wing. And to be clear: it's not just a part of left wing thought. It's now so central to left wing thought, apparently, that any divergence from this immediately makes you 'far right'.

@holdthefunge @jew4youtoo @TheOmniLiberal No benefit of the doubt needed, no one would question that at all if not for TDS.

@GhostOfRonaldR @jew4youtoo @TheOmniLiberal This doesn’t seem like a reasonable administration. At this point there’s no reason they should get the benefit of the doubt.

so uh, what's up with that downed pilot that we saved in Iran? did he ever get any awards, or did anyone honor anyone involved in the rescue? anyone on stage to talk about what happened or anything like that..?

@holdthefunge @jew4youtoo @TheOmniLiberal Years later. Not publicizing the names of pilots flying missions over a terrorist nation we are at war with that has threatened to activate terror cells within our country seems like a reasonable position.

@jew4youtoo @TheOmniLiberal We’ve never celebrated war heroes in America? We make movies about things like this.

@CarterElliottIV @CarterElliottIV would have no problem with 51% voting to imprison the other 49%.

Here’s the deal: Virginians voted.

@PatrickHeizer You jack up taxes and the deficit goes down. Really hard to figure out.

Every Democrat since Carter has decreased the federal deficit. Every Republican since Eisenhower has increased the federal deficit.

@katieporterca This should end Katie Porter’s campaign if the American Left was sane. Unfortunately, it won’t.

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@michaelpfreeman Right, she just seeded her own conspiracy theory into the Washington establishment with fake oppo that led to impeachment. That’s an actual attempted coup.

What a profoundly dishonest argument. Hillary Clinton didn't go to court dozens of times in an attempt to overturn votes, didn't call a state official and pressure him to find her several thousand votes, and didn't have her supporters storm the Capitol. She also conceded.

@NotAvgLiberal I know, man, all the airlines are shutting down now because they all have the same fuel costs. Oh wait…

Just so we’re clear. Republicans are blaming Biden for Spirit Airlines shutting down. Yet they don’t blame Trump for the 70% increase in jet fuel costs that shut them down. A jet fuel increase that’s a direct result of Trump’s war with Iran. Jesus Christ… Next thing you know, Republicans will be blaming Biden because Trump raped kids. Fucking Idiots.

@MarvinTBaumann No, you didn’t. You lost your trust that America would continue to allow itself to be taken advantage of by countries that do nothing but mock and disrespect us.

Americans don't understand that we did not lose trust in Trump. We never trusted him. We lost trust in the American people not to elect people like Trump & lost trust in US institutions to reign a president like Trump in if he hurt US allies. Both people + institutions failed.

@FurkanGozukara US obliterates nearly all Iranian military facilities - Media/Leftists like this guy : “Doesn’t matter, the regime is still operating. Empty victory!” Iran damages a couple handfuls of forward bases the US can repair - same people : “Iranian victory! Long live the ayatollah!”

Absolute bombshell on CNN. CNN confirms precise Iranian strikes have caused unprecedented destruction to the majority of US military sites. At least 16 American installations are heavily damaged and virtually unusable. The Pentagon is hiding a massive defeat.

@toujoursyucky @BLM_Stanton @ResoluteMichael @hutchinson The hilarious thing about this thread is that, nearly always, when someone says “republic, not a democracy”, they are doing so to point out the other person’s lack of understanding the distinction, not that it isn’t a form of democracy. But they are the illiterate ones? Ok.

@BLM_Stanton @ResoluteMichael @hutchinson Exactly this. The whole “We’re actually republic” crowd just likes to be pedantic or trying to shutdown arguments about the erosion of democracy in the US.

“We’re a republic, not a democracy”

@broe_jogan11_11 @TheOmniLiberal @OwenShroyer1776 “Fight” has been used innocuously in political rhetoric for decades by both sides. If you want to go example by example I don’t think that will look great for your position.

@GhostOfRonaldR @TheOmniLiberal @OwenShroyer1776 "Fight like hell or you're going to lose your country" said before a riot and attempted insurrection. I think someone wrote gullible on the ceiling

I wasn’t calling for violence against conservatives, I said you all need to stop romanticizing civil war because you guys are absolutely obsessed with turning your side into a frenzy after every single shooting. How’s your secret child with @OwenShroyer1776 doing btw?

People are perplexed that the shooter seemed to be a somewhat normal guy, with an education and a job. As a Conservative who has been living near DC for 15 years, this isn’t perplexing at all. If you could hear the way Leftists talk about Trump and his supporters, especially when they think there are no Trump supporters around, none of this would surprise you. They actually believe Trump is Hitler, and they actually believe violence is justified against Trump and his supporters. This is not some fringe belief, this is widespread. They openly and unapologetically fantasize about Republican politicians being assassinated. They are proud of it. You could ask any Leftist on the street in DC if they wish any of the assassination attempts on Trump were successful, and they will look you straight in the eye and say “absolutely”. Just like they openly rooted for us to die during Covid. A great sickness infects these people, and I don’t think those who live outside the cities have any idea just how much these Leftists hate you and want you to die. The shooter was not some fringe activist. He is just a regular Leftist who acted on the thoughts and conversations that all of them have been conditioned to have, due to the 24/7 exposure to anti-Trump propaganda from every bit of media they consume. They are heavily brainwashed.

@avidseries Sometimes I read your posts and think you’re intelligent, sometimes I read them and don’t understand how you can be so dumb. You mean to say wacko Leftists don’t describe themselves as far Left extremists? I’m shocked.

In the largest survey ever conducted on the ideological orientation of US teachers, only 30% described themselves as "liberal". A plurality (43%) identified as "moderate".

@ComplicitLenny Says someone that has never been to a private golf club to understand that most don’t let these wacko Leftists within 500 yards of the place.

You mean to tell me the first time this asshole attends the correspondence dinner he’s attacked. But he can golf every weekend without issue. Yeah. Okay.

No British government ever imagined an American president might finally tell the truth about the “special relationship.” Until now. Spare me the pearl-clutching obituary from The Economist, that decaying salon of transatlantic nostalgia where the ghost of Churchill is still being pimped out like a rent-boy for Davos subscriptions. Your precious bunting of flags in the bin isn’t some tragic metaphor for Trump’s “betrayal.” It’s the autopsy photo of a one-way parasitic bargain that America has carried on its back like a drunk uncle for eighty goddamn years. And the drunk finally woke up, looked around, and said: Fuck this. This isn’t “turning his back.” This is a sovereign nation refusing to keep subsidizing a continent of strategic eunuchs who have spent decades castrating their own militaries, hollowing out their industrial bases, and importing the very pathologies that make them security liabilities rather than allies. You want the special relationship? Earn it. Reciprocate it. Stop treating the United States like an ATM with nuclear weapons. Geopolitically and militarily, the numbers don’t lie and they never have. The United States still shoulders roughly sixty percent of total NATO defense spending...$845 billion out of a collective $1.4 trillion last year. Most of your European “partners” couldn’t hit the 2% GDP target even after Russia parked tanks on Ukraine’s border and started lobbing missiles at civilian infrastructure. Britain under Starmer talks a big game about “global Britain” while quietly slashing capability, courting CCP-linked cash, and letting its own streets burn under the weight of demographic transformation and speech codes that make the old East German Stasi look libertarian. You lecture us about values while your own government criminalizes tweets and turns Rotherham into a cautionary tale the media still refuses to fully autopsy. Historically, the ledger is even more damning. We bled for you in 1917 and 1941 when your empires were on the ropes. We bankrolled your reconstruction, anchored your defense for the entire Cold War, and let you punch above your weight on the world stage because sentimental Anglosphere nostalgia still meant something. In return? Suez 1956, where you expected us to back imperial nostalgia while we were trying to contain Soviet expansion. Vietnam, where you sat it out. Iraq, where you half-assed it and then spent the next twenty years sneering at us in your broadsheets. And every single time an American president dared put America First, your commentariat wailed like Victorian widows about the death of the alliance...as if the alliance was ever meant to be a suicide pact. You’ve internalized a victimhood narrative so profound it borders on the clinical...projecting your own national decline, your own loss of agency, your own self-inflicted castration onto the one country that still possesses the will to act like a great power. Trump doesn’t “deprioritize” the relationship; he simply refuses to indulge the delusion any longer. He sees what you refuse to admit: the United Kingdom of 2026 is no longer the reliable offshore balancer of 1945. It’s a mid-tier European power wrestling with internal entropy, elite disconnect, and a demographic trajectory that makes long-term strategic partnership… let’s just say, complicated. We are sick of it. Sick of the free ride. Sick of the lectures from people whose capitals are turning into no-go zones while their defense ministers beg Washington for more F-35s and more carrier groups to patrol waters they can no longer secure themselves. Sick of the pomp, the pageantry, the royal visits, and the hand-wringing editorials that treat American self-interest as some kind of moral failing. The special relationship isn’t dead. It’s being stress-tested by reality. And reality, Mr. Economist, is a vicious bitch with a ledger in one hand and a mirror in the other. Look into it. 💀⚖️🗡️

@tommysantos14 Or, maybe, just maybe, Leftists are as violent as we have all been saying they are.

If you think the fucking badass Secret Service of the United States, after keeping the first black president safe for 8 years in office without major incident, has now screwed up royally FOUR TIMES securing Trump? You’re not real bright.

Cole Allen is the Dunning-Kruger Assassin. Allen is not some random nut job from the fringes of society. He’s a very articulate graduate of Caltech, which means he has a high degree of native intelligence. He’s in the education profession. He is on BlueSky. He goes to No Kings protests. He’s your basic rank-and-file Democrat. But it’s that high native intellect that led him astray. The Dunning-Kruger Effect is, at its simplest level, people thinking they know more that they do. People who are high achievers in one area often mistakenly believe their native abilities make them experts in all areas. So you get a super-smart guy like Allen, he excels in one narrow area, and extrapolates that excellence into thinking he knows more than he does in other areas. He goes into Blue Sky, he goes to No Kings protests, and he is easily swayed into believing all of the insane, violent lies those sorts of intellectual cesspools foster. All of a sudden this computer science expert is a national political policy expert too, except that latter expertise is derived from insane propaganda. The man with the intellectual skill to write code is not smart enough to recognize when he himself has fallen prey to propaganda, so he KNOWS that Donald Trump is Hitler and must be stopped. And when you KNOW that someone is Hitler, what’s the right thing to do? That’s what is so scary at this very moment—the sheer number of ostensibly educated Democrats who KNOW so many things are “true" that are actually so very, very untrue. In many ways, Cole Allen is just an average Democrat, and like most average Democrats, he fell prey to credentialism and Dunning-Kruger. But Cole took it to the next level; let’s pray more do not.