"As far as patriotism, there was a poll last year by Gallup which tracked how proud someone is to be an American by political party since 2001.

As you can see, 92% of Republicans say they are extremely or very proud to be an American, which surged after Trump was elected a second time, after he was elected the first time, and after 911.

Conversely, only 53% of independents and 36% of Democrats felt the same way. The numbers for these two groups also dropped dramatically during Trump's first and second terms."

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Thread link is a 5 min vid, but the Transcript is printed in full below the video.

"On Lesser Evil Voting

Noam Chomsky's view of electoral politics is, I believe, a sensible one. In fact, it's not his; as he says, it's the "traditional left view," just one that we've lost clarity on.

People mistakenly assume that by saying "vote against Trump," Chomsky is putting too much stock in the power of voting and is insufficiently cynical about the Democratic Party.

In fact, it's completely the opposite: he puts very little stock in voting and is perhaps even more cynical about the Democrats than his critics, which is why he doesn't think it's surprising or interesting that Biden is offering the left almost nothing and the party is treating voters with contempt.

The "traditional left view" he talks about is, roughly: we need to participate in elections, when they happen, and vote for the least harmful candidate. That's common sense.

But we should not see elections as the domain where we express our deepest political values, or give them an outsized role in our understanding of what politics is. Instead, we need to be working the rest of the time for the betterment of our world in different ways.

Sometimes that involves running candidates in elections, and trying to improve the slate on offer - hence the Sanders campaign, AOC, the dozens of DSA elected officials around the country.

But that's only one part of what we do. We are also building institutions; unions, media organizations, pressure groups and political organizations. We are working slowly on building power, which cannot be done in general elections.

That's news to nobody, yet everyone's attention is still fixated on national presidential politics to an unhealthy degree, to the neglect especially of state, local, and international politics."

Girl Named Tom | Wish You Were Here (Live Acoustic Version)

Taylor Demp - You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive

Stephen Wilson Jr. - "I'm A Song" (Live at the Print Shop)

Can't Get Out Of This Mood " Isla Croll | Live Jazz | Inspired by Samara Joy

Pasquale Grasso - Solitude (Official Video) ft. Samara Joy

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NW... the particular song in the thread link was never a favorite of mine, but the point is that there's at least some kids that are trying to do music well, and that particular duo has, as I mentioned, quite a few covers and some originals that are pretty well done.

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Hope your wife is doing well, too.

- Let's set fire to Mar-A-Pedo

#2

I recently saw some cool surf vids from Playa Colorado. Apparently they have good Nica music, too!

Anyway....

Death Ain't No Big Deal - Straight Company

Thread link is:

Ventura Highway - America (Cover by Jack & Daisy) outdoor recording
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"Thank you Journey Instruments for sending us these two incredible collapsible travel guitars!"

"The Statue of Liberty, like the White House, is managed by the National Park Service. Demolishing it would require legislative approval and rigorous public and regulatory review under the National Historic Preservation Act.

This argument features in the DOJ's primary claim that the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the group behind the lawsuit, has no standing to challenge the construction. The DOJ also argued that construction on the ballroom can't actually be stopped by the courts, and could only be stopped by Congress.

All of this further illustrates just how powerful the Trump administration believes itself to be: Its modus operandi is simply to break our nation's laws with such speed that no one can stop it."

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To be fair, replacing the Statue of Liberty with the Statue of Loyalty to Trump is only fair, right?

"Give me your tired, your poor tax dollars,
Your huddled masses of earnings to ME for free.
The wretched refuse of your teeming bank accounts.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost billions to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden statue of myself door!"

"Trump's vision for ODNI could further alienate Republicans on Capitol Hill, some of whom expressed dismay following the announcement that Trump had tapped a close ally with zero national security experience to lead the government's intelligence-sharing operation."

"Pulte earned a reputation as a staunch Trump loyalist during his stint as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency " a role he continues to serve in, in addition to his intelligence community responsibilities " when he recommended that the Department of Justice launch mortgage fraud investigations into some of Trump's political enemies."

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"Trump also said he wants Pulte to focus on releasing information related to the 2020 presidential election, which Trump regularly and falsely asserts was stolen from him.

He told reporters on Thursday that "you may find out some things about the rigged elections" following Pulte's appointment."

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As with everything else, this is all about Trump, not about America.

And we already know who tried to Rig the 2020 Election... from his own DOJ's testimony under Oath.

So... a quickly 'Former' Senior Official.

Apparently Leo was not amused.

- I put on the BBC.

Doesn't that hurt?

- Unitarian Universalists

Really? I can see where they might be a danger to drunken wife-beating Secs of War.

Watch out, Rogers!

It's actually kinda like so many Nazis these days calling themselves Republicans.

It's propaganda.

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People who think Nazis were/are socialists are properly pointed and laughed at.

"AI Overview
No, the Nazis were not socialists, despite having "Socialist" in their official name (the National Socialist German Workers' Party).

Historians widely agree that the party adopted the term in the 1920s as a populist marketing tactic to appeal to working-class voters, but their actual policies were deeply capitalist and fiercely anti-Marxist."

How could you possibly not know this?

It's always seems so... surreal, that the Cult ignores the Fact that there was a REAL Coup Plot and plotters, people from Project25 and such, that REALLY DID hatch a plan for DJT to OVERTURN THE ELECTION.... and that it almost werked.

Had the DOJ not threatened to quit en masse, it would have. And the planners are still running around free, and their Point Con Man is back in the WH.

btw.... couple of years ago I went to his Tomb in Springfield, and it was a worthwhile detour:

There are 3 primary inscriptions engraved on the interior of the Lincoln Memorial... they are:

"IN THIS TEMPLE AS IN THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE FOR WHOM HE SAVED THE UNION
THE MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLNIS ENSHRINED FOREVER."

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."

"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds..."

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They'll have to be replaced though:

"Why are we having all these people from s"thole countries come here?"

"After clashes between white supremacists and counter-protesters at the rally turned deadly, killing 32-year-old protester Heather Heyer, Trump still insisted there was blame on "both sides" " and "some very fine people on both sides."

"Well, I do think there's blame " yes, I think there's blame on both sides," he said at the time.
"You look at " you look at both sides. I think there's blame on both sides. And I have no doubt about it, and you don't have any doubt about it either."

and

"The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive."

Wow... ya know, DJT sounds just like Lincoln, right?

Plus, Honest Abe sicced all those black people on the suffering white nationalist masses!

And then he had the gall to recruit 200,000 black soldiers and sailors into the US Military to help fight for their freedom.

What a Lewzer!

Now we have Traitor Trump... yay?!

"Special counsel Jack Smith's indictment of Trump for allegedly attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election lists six unnamed co-conspirators, two of whom have been widely reported to be John Eastman, Senior Fellow at The Claremont Institute, and Jeffrey Clark, Senior Fellow and Director of Litigation at the Center for Renewing America.

According to the indictment, Clark suggested deploying the military to suppress political unrest in the event that the coup proved successful.

Eastman appears to have been comfortable with that plan as well."

Can't wait for the coming Retirements; Todd Blanche is going to make a GREAT SC Justice!

"With the signing of a $25 billion memorandum of understanding, Jalali said the Hormoz project " alongside the ongoing expansion of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant " represents one of the most significant pillars of Iranian-Russian cooperation in the field of what Tehran describes as "peaceful nuclear energy."

The Hormoz project is set to be developed by Iran's "private sector" in cooperation with Russia's state nuclear energy corporation, Rosatom, according to Iranian media."

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Vlad paddling his Poodle in the WH.

Meanwhile, back at the NATO Ranch, said poodle is poisoning the well for Vlad:

"Pentagon likely to cancel missile deal with Germany over fears of Russia

The Pentagon is expected to cancel a plan to send Tomahawk missiles to Germany partly because officials are concerned Russia will view it as an escalation, a startling reversal of a long-planned agreement with one of America's biggest allies.

U.S. officials fear Moscow will retaliate if the Trump administration follows through on the effort to deploy precision missiles in the middle of the continent, according to two European officials and one American official.

But any decision not to deliver them would yank back a deal made during the Biden administration and leave Berlin without defenses German leaders say they desperately need."