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And did he mention who would be articulating these values? Mao Zedong? Josef Stalin?Entertaining, and what Wat said last November is beginning to take some kind of shape. Mostly an amorphous blobs, but it's a shape, which is more than was beforehand, and faster than if the other possibility had happened.
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“If you think Trumpism will simply end in three years,” David Brooks writes for The Atlantic, “you are naive.”
In his article, which appears in The Atlantic’s special issue on the unfinished American Revolution, Brooks claims that Donald Trump’s dominance—over politicians, higher education, the judicial system, and the American psyche—won’t be broken while thinking in conventional political terms. Instead, he argues that a mass “political-cultural-social movement” will be necessary to reverse the global tide of populism that has propelled not just Trump, but also figures like Viktor Orbán, Narendra Modi, and Vladimir Putin.
“Conventional politicians don’t have the vision or power to reverse a historical tide,” Brooks writes. “Chuck Schumer is not going to save us.” To beat the culture of Trumpism, he argues, you need a counter vision about where America should be heading, a different set of values dictating what is admirable and what is disgraceful. This movement is possible. And there are examples from the past to lead us there.
And did he mention who would be articulating these values? Mao Zedong? Josef Stalin?
It all falls under, "There's nothing new under the Sun."He references a book which has an assload of grassroots kinds of protest movements in it and I haven't gotten that far to find out who he thinks could/can make something happen. I find it interesting that he refers to current events as a populist movement and refers to the solution to it as another populist movement. I kind of think that the world has kind of outstripped humanity's ability to process how to "manage" it, and because of its size and complexity, it needs some kind of management, somehow.
It all falls under, "There's nothing new under the Sun."
That's how they roll.Of course there isn't. However, the application evolves as things move along, sometimes well and sometimes poorly.
Here's one that sucks:
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2025/10/16/baltimore-seniors-wait-years-for-assistance-on-unaffordable-home-repairs/?lctg=A52224A1B4FFC5E5A4BC55D3B5&utm_email=A52224A1B4FFC5E5A4BC55D3B5&active=no&utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=https://www.baltimoresun.com/2025/10/16/baltimore-seniors-wait-years-for-assistance-on-unaffordable-home-repairs/&utm_campaign=trib-baltimore_sun-breaking_news-nl&utm_content=alert
Baltimore seniors wait years for assistance on unaffordable home repairs
The heat in Vernoy Coleman’s house hasn’t worked for five years.
After a carbon monoxide leak in his West Baltimore home, the fire department shut off his furnace, and he hasn’t used it since. One contractor told him it would cost $20,000 to replace, while Coleman, 72, lives on an income of $1,700 per month. In the winter, he keeps to his bedroom with two space heaters, and an additional space heater in his bathroom.
“I’m in need of a furnace bad,” he told The Baltimore Sun.
Coleman is one of thousands of older adults in Baltimore who have applied and are still waiting for help from the city with repairs on their homes. City-approved contractors are used to make repairs. Sometimes, residents wait months or even years for help, according to city officials speaking at a hearing on Thursday about home repair assistance programs.
Wat has personal experience with these kinds of programs and the agencies through which they are administered. He was given a chance to bid to go on a Preferred List. He was accepted. First job and the "contract administrator" asks for a bid. He was told, the bid is hourly - cost plus. It's in the contract. He wants a quote. A couple more questions and it becomes apparent, he wants to know what his cut is going to be.
Guess who got told to go fuck himself. Guess who was promptly removed from the so-called Preferred List.
David Brooks, for those that don’t know, is the milquetoast go-to “conservative,” on PBS shows and other alphabet soup networks. He’s never met a liberal he didn’t like though. Famously saying he “liked the cut of his jib,” when asked on live teevee about the Dalai Bama…(peace be upon him)…which was roundly mocked by Rush and others.Entertaining, and what Wat said last November is beginning to take some kind of shape. Mostly an amorphous blobs, but it's a shape, which is more than was beforehand, and faster than if the other possibility had happened.
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“If you think Trumpism will simply end in three years,” David Brooks writes for The Atlantic, “you are naive.”
In his article, which appears in The Atlantic’s special issue on the unfinished American Revolution, Brooks claims that Donald Trump’s dominance—over politicians, higher education, the judicial system, and the American psyche—won’t be broken while thinking in conventional political terms. Instead, he argues that a mass “political-cultural-social movement” will be necessary to reverse the global tide of populism that has propelled not just Trump, but also figures like Viktor Orbán, Narendra Modi, and Vladimir Putin.
“Conventional politicians don’t have the vision or power to reverse a historical tide,” Brooks writes. “Chuck Schumer is not going to save us.” To beat the culture of Trumpism, he argues, you need a counter vision about where America should be heading, a different set of values dictating what is admirable and what is disgraceful. This movement is possible. And there are examples from the past to lead us there.
That's how they roll.
David Brooks, for those that don’t know, is the milquetoast go-to “conservative,” on PBS shows and other alphabet soup networks. He’s never met a liberal he didn’t like though. Famously saying he “liked the cut of his jib,” when asked on live teevee about the Dalai Bama…(peace be upon him)…which was roundly mocked by Rush and others.
Having said all that, I’ve read several of his books, not politically related, and have enjoyed them. I’ve I were the left. I’d listen. He does have his finger on the pulse of the social issues.
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I didn’t get to read the whole article, just the blurb you posted. I see what you’re saying though and I don’t see it either…not the way the dems are constituted at present.I'll buy his mass movement idea, and I'll buy that it needs to be unified, or based on unity. We don't have that now. I just don't think a mass movement will look like what he thinks it will is all.
Same goes when dealing with the Trade Unions in some locals.I was kinda surprised when it happened to me. I never ratted on the guy, altho' maybe I should have. Maybe better he find his way to retired or something. I think that whole agency has crapped out by now. It was a mite poorly run. I quit doing work for them a few months after all that bullshit went down. There was honest business elsewhere.
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I didn’t get to read the whole article, just the blurb you posted. I see what you’re saying though and I don’t see it either…not the way the dems are constituted at present.
Same goes when dealing with the Trade Unions in some locals.
Those "amorphous blobs" you heralded last November are called chaos and fascism. You personally celebrated it throughout the months following the election, and now it is the fulfillment of the right-wing cult gospel.Entertaining, and what Wat said last November is beginning to take some kind of shape. Mostly an amorphous blobs, but it's a shape, which is more than was beforehand, and faster than if the other possibility had happened.
You could give the .30-338 a try.Got the scope mounted on the .338 ARC. That with the high velocity cartridges should be a hoot at 300 yards or so.
You could give the .30-338 a try.