A point I didn't make: The top two threats to the West are Trump and Russia, in that order. Radical muslims are tied with toys that are also choking hazards on the list of Threats To The West.

Trump didn't understand the speech, doesn't actually believe it, but he thinks it sounded presidential.

The first time around, pre Isreal, the target of Threats to the West speeches were jews. I'm not talking Hitler, I'm taking the prior 200+ years of antisemitism (and Hitler, obv). Now you're wondering if a jewish state is The West. It's a legitimate question, which further shows just how stupid such speeches are.

Nationalist racists can be cool with other races if they are also nationalist racist separtists. Trump loves Erdogan and Duterte. Lotta right wingers are cool with the Jews in Israel and not so much with Jew York City.

I agree with any analysis there about Trump not knowing what the **** he's talking about.

Just read the Beinart piece in the Atlantic. He is, of course, correct. Spaceman is wrong and needs to read some history.

Ironically, ScreaminAsian is right about Western culture, which kinda wraps it all in a bow.

It's an essentially fascist speech for sure, btw, I mean look at this:

What does that mean? I mean what will be the practical difference between the West being just CHOCK FULL of "will to survive" versus having none of it? The next sentence clarifies:

This is one of Umberto Eco's characteristics of Ur-Fascism, the "cult of action":

I mean one could argue that standing firm behind our values and not showing fear in the face of lunatics deliberately running people over in cars requires strength of will. But that's never what fascists mean by "will". It's always inextricably tied up with action, with DOING something.

I didn't watch, but didn't they round up a bunch of football hooligans for the audience who will immediately have the will to beat to death the next Muslim they see?

Yeah, that "fundamental question" looks pretty damn unfundamental.

"Do we have the confidence in our values to defend them at any cost?" Um, couldya maybe be a little more specific? That line could come straight from the mouth of any of history's worst people. Like the content is sub silenco, a dog whistle if you will, but it's the sort of statement that needs to be fleshed out with a bit more substance. Cause I'm hearing it, and it's making me think that if we actually have Confidence In Our Values, then we should impeach Trump and imprison every one of his family members until they die a natural death. That would really show whether The West Has the Will To Survive.

And isn't one of our values the unwillingness to defend our values at any cost, becase that would undermine our values? Like Russia defends its values by cheating in the Olympics and then letting it's athletes deal with the repercussions. We don't, because living our values is more important than defending them.

I am a child of the cold war (the son in The Americans shows my exact childhood). We grew up with the threat of 1000s of nuclear weapons pointed at us on short fuses. That is a real, existential threat.

Radical muslim terrorists are a joke. How many tanks do they have? How many divisions? They are nothing. There is no timeline that ends with radical muslim terrorists defeating 'the west'. Or even doing meaningful damage. The very best they can hope for is we are total fools who damage ourselves reacting to a non-threat.

Maybe they envision a hellscape like California, except the taco trucks on every corner are replaced by kabob stands. And it's not just mexicans who do yardwork and pick fruit but also Syrians

One last thing, in my university we had a required two year long Western Civilization course. We only read original texts, from the Bible, old and new testament, to Beckett/Camus/Sartre. There was some history, but mainly 'great books,' Herodotus, Virgil, Agustine, Aquinas, Dante (all three books), Milton, and much more. So, I know a little about the the Western Civilization these idiots like Miller claim to cherish. And those are great works, some unequaled to this day, but these dumbficks have no idea of the actual development of Western culture, art, law, science, philosophy. It's only the liberals and eggheads who care about this stuff. Trump's notion of Western culture is the nfl, milton friedman, the WWE, Dallas and Dynasty, Elvis, Rocky, and a nice piece of ass. Worth fighting for? Sure, but the sandox they're playing in is not what has made Western Civilization the force that it is.

Also had to read a decent amount of Oswlad Spenglers Decline of the West (1918), where it was the jews ruining everything.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Spengler

Do we know if Kushner still has his security clearance? I assume he does and that I owe someone $20 now or in a couple of days.

Between trumps continued obfuscating on Russian interference in our elections and his do what ever it takes or we all die stuff, i think it might of been his scariest outings.

As a lawyer who does PI car accidents (not in your state ) , I can almost assure you that you'll get a free consultation with a lawyer near you. You also have very little to do on your end if they take the case. Just sit tight, usually lawyer can get a settlement and if they're successful, you get a check in the mail.

Definitely a freeroll, as you said.

That's not how I understood it.

Reporter covering the Milo event.

A bit odd that the military had a Jade Helm exercise this year but no one heard about it. What could have changed this year that made those who are ever vigilant about government jackboots be so lax?

http://www.18af.amc.af.mil/News/Arti...ing-jade-helm/

Again, a TYVM to my fellow politards for generously sharing their wisdom !!!1!

I got this advice from several peeps IRL too. IIRC I've mentioned: the Blazer was being driven recklessly, the fool driving it acted in a suspicious manner, I don't believe the CHP report, there exists that third party witness, etc.

At this point I'm resigned to not getting any $$$$ from the various insurance companies. I'm also in no hurry, as I got the statute of limitations to mill over sueing the fool, I have garage space to store the wreck indefinitely, and I got another even more ancient car to drive around in. On the flip side... the wreck is ancient too. It had a pre-wreck kbb.com value of only ~$1500.

Eventually, as this is all a part of Sabo's life story, I'll blog the full story of the crash, and what I eventually did with the wreck, over in my dog blog.

"I am not a number, I'm a free dog!"

(provide your own rover joke)

this week on the game "neo-nazi or not?"


https://twitter.com/SarahPalinUSA/st...71897605185536

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words

one one hand that seems insane. on the other hand there arent actually any 14 word sentences in that link as far as i can tell and the, erhm, theme fits

maybe i should start reading the trump thread. obviously a faulty pony

twitter is saying the title is native to the article, so palin isnt neo-nazi, she just reads them

retweets them, has it pointed out, and then leaves the tweets up.