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Meandering Herder retweeted
Scott Adams Memorial/Celebration of Life will be live streamed in real time. Details will be shared shortly.
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Coffee With Scott Adams 5/19/25 nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1MYxNwXEq…
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Meandering Herder retweeted
Business is a domain in which inexperienced people often imagine themselves to be smarter than the most successful leaders. Here are some of the worst takes on DOGE from our least experienced citizens. 1. "DOGE should use a scalpel, not a chainsaw." 2. "The cuts need to be more thoughtful." 3. "DOGE is lowering morale among the affected." 4. "DOGE is creating chaos." 5. "DOGE is how Musk will rob the country." 6. "Musk was not elected." 7. "DOGE needs to be more transparent." If you find yourself tempted to say any of those things in public, I recommend taking the week off of social media.
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Meandering Herder retweeted
Every bleeding-heart liberal I talk to about the Russia-Ukraine war wants to keep feeding bodies into the meat grinder forever. They have no plan for success. Superficial empathy, not real empathy.
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Meandering Herder retweeted
The people arguing for “slow and measured” “careful” cuts to government are full of shit. By the time we got done putting together their bipartisan Committee To Evaluate The Paperwork To Assess Government Efficiency it would take 36 years to produce, hire another hundred thousand new government employees (99% of which are democrats) and cost a trillion dollars (mostly dedicated to DEI, NGOs in NoVa, and funding Transexual Peruvian Orchestras). And in 2061 when the Federal Department of CTEPAGE completed its report it would be hailed as a huge victory because the government only quadrupled in size during that time, while the rest of America is eating rats cooked over fires fueled by our now worthless money to survive. They’re lying. We know they’re lying. We are way past the fake civility nonsense where we have to pretend to take their concerns seriously. Don’t coddle their bullshit. We won. Steamroll these statist fucks.
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Meandering Herder retweeted
There’s nothing neocons love more than “policing the right.” Wouldn’t you love to police your opposition? How convenient it must be to declare what your opponents are and aren’t allowed to say and do. It’s what neocons—former Democrats who ingratiate themselves among the right for the sole purpose of nagging them into fighting unnecessary wars and leaving the bulk of Democrat policy in place—have done for 60 years, going back to the John Birch Society, which was nagged out of polite society for being too anti-communist and threatening the breadbaskets of far too many D.C. elites. And as always, anyone to the right of the neocons is branded as “far right”—as if cultural Democrats, who sat by while the wokesters took over their party and held the country hostage with their insanity, are the true arbiter of the ideological center of the country. To understand how absurd this is, ask yourself how it is that 21st century Democrats came to power in this country in the first place: it was due entirely to George W. Bush dutifully enacting the neocon agenda, blowing up the Middle East, and all but handing the country to Barack Obama for eight years, plus another four under the residency of Joe Biden. And what did these wise, neocon sages do while Obama turbocharged the Democrat party with some of the most disastrous and divisive identity politics? Nothing. In fact, they told Republicans to pick John McCain and Mitt Romney as their nominees. Not because they might win, but because they didn’t have a chance. They were the perfect neocon candidates, losers who threatened neither Democrat power nor neocon foreign policy dogma. And when Trump defied the odds to win in 2016, did they get behind him? Of course not. Because they’re Democrats and also aggressive agitators for needless military intervention, which Trump stridently opposes. Instead, they spent four years providing moral, rhetorical, and often even financial and logistical support to cripple, obstruct, and even overthrow the Trump presidency. Did they lift a finger or raise a voice to protest the Russian collusion hoax, one of the most destructive hoaxes ever perpetrated on this nation and her people? Nope. What about the Ukraine impeachment hoax? Oh surely you jest. Sure, they said the wokery was too much after watching it build unabated for a decade, that maybe we shouldn’t be forcing girls to get beat up by boys in dresses pretending to be female athletes (and even then, it was only done after mocking those of us on the right who predicted all this a decade ago). But that’s where it ended. Like a pawl in a ratchet, as soon as the right took power, the neocons immediately clicked into place to prevent the left-wing bolt from being loosened. And that right there is why you see the immediate pivot from mildly defending against only the most extreme aspects of late-stage wokery to standing athwart history, yelling “Stop!” at anyone who’s actually making progress dismantling the left and reversing its damage on the country. You’ll notice in this latest attempt to police anyone to her right that Weiss throws around lots of charges of Nazism and right-wing radicalism that is allegedly taking over the “new right.” This is being done to position anyone who objects to her rhetorical motte and bailey construction as a Hitler-loving fanatic. What you won’t find are specific names of anyone with these views who has any real political power or persuasion. No major Nazi-infested institutions with the power to shape opinion are listed. No American politicians who serve as the standard bearer for a new Hitler are named. That’s because there are none. It’s all smoke and mirrors meant to trick and manipulate. Is Nazism bad? Of course it is. Is it a force in American politics today? No, of course it isn’t, and anyone who asserts otherwise is either delusional or dishonest. In fact, the opposite is likely true: of the two major European ideologies that were at war with each other 80 years ago, the only one with any real hold on a sizable segment of a major American political party in 2025 is the Marxism that powered the Soviet Union and now seems to power the majority of university academic lounges. Swap out class for race in the Marxian ideology, and you’ll find the engine that powered a multi-billion dollar political movement in America just five years ago. It wasn’t Nazis bullying every major Fortune 500 company into funding riots and violence in 2020 on behalf of a discredited and deadly World War II-era ideology. All the cultural power today is with the communists, not the Nazis. So read this post from Bari Weiss for what it is: a naked attempt to set her own rules and pick her own opponents in such a way that only she and her co-ideologues can come out on top. I don’t blame her for trying, as this same tired shtick has worked for far too long. But I suspect Weiss and her allies know that those days are over. And that’s the real reason the fear the “new right”: they finally have an opponent who refuses to be emotionally manipulated into surrender.
What can we learn from our recent history? Of the way that the far left destroyed the center left? One big takeaway is that if a political movement does not police its ranks, does not draw lines, if it neglects to protect its borders, if it does not defend its sacred values, it cannot long endure. What are those values? They include the rule of the law. The belief in the inalienable rights of each individual. That we are all created in the image of God and it is that—and not our ethnicity or our IQ score—that gives us our worth and that makes us all equal. It is a rejection of mob violence. It is the view that the West is good and that America is good, and that we deserve our heroes along with our whole complex history. These values are not left or right. They are foundational. They are civilizational. And they have always required constant vigilance to preserve. But that’s not the sense you get online these days—and some places offline, too—where power is celebrated instead of principle. Where power is quickly becoming the only principle. If that continues without being challenged, we may wind up spending the next few years watching the same story we just lived through on the other side, as the far right (not the one defined by cable news, which includes many in this room) devours what remains of the center-right. If you aren’t aware of the dangers that come with apparent victory, if you think, That’s impossible, I believe you are as naive as the professors at Harvard who still email me to say, “Can you believe what’s happening?!” What does this group, which differs from the rest of the right in its open embrace of illiberalism, sound like? An awful lot like the far left. This group says that we are in a war—a war here at home—and that because it’s war, because the stakes are life and death, the normal rules of the game must be suspended. They say those who don’t go along are squishes or traitors or were secret leftists all along. Or they accuse them of being conservative or Republican in name only, which is a version of the “false consciousness” Marxists were so fond of telling people they suffer from. They say that it’s not enough to return to normal—that returning to normal isn’t an option—and instead it’s time to give the other side a taste of their own medicine. They say we were treated cruelly. And so cruelty is the necessary response. They say that the thing we are trying to conserve has already been destroyed—and perhaps never even existed at all. They say that reform is a losers’ strategy, and that the whole thing needs to be burned down. Like the far left, they have no use for history, but judge people living and dead in the ideological light of presentism, or simply reimagine them from scratch. As the left defaced and desecrated statues of Churchill, the vandals on the right desecrate his name and his memory. Again, it’s a question of borders. In this case, they actively erase the line between good and evil, and between past and present—looking backward to a place where “things went wrong,” as if it’s possible to turn back the clock. While the left, long sympathetic with Stalin, today sympathizes with modern-day Nazis in the form of Hamas—this new right eulogizes the original ones. And in rehabilitating Hitler they are not merely demonizing Jews, but demonizing America, Britain, and the millions who fought and died to preserve our freedoms. All of this seems as obvious to me as the notion that a girl cannot become a boy. But a lot of people seem to have a hard time saying these things out loud right now. Why?
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Meandering Herder retweeted
As if it wasn't bad enough that hundreds of violent Jan. 20, 2017 Antifa rioters had all their charges dropped, the federal government agreed to pay out $1.6 million to some of the arrestees who sued.
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NATO is building the largest NATO military base in all of Europe in Romania, right on Romania's Black Sea coast pointing at Crimea, the crux point of contest in the Russia-Ukraine war. NATO feared the man who won Romania's now-canceled election would cut or shut the base down.
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Meandering Herder retweeted
Send this to you retard friends and family crying about tariffs!
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650,000 Ukrainian men left when the war began as they didn’t want to die to keep some ethnically Russian enclaves inside some map line. As for your country? The UK is fully cucked. No military might, and it’s a police state of its own. Would make Putin blush.
So, Russia can illegally invade a sovereign democratic European country, murder 1000s of Ukrainian civilians, then rope in North Korean soldiers to help them wage war, and the West’s correct response should be to.. *checks notes* … give Putin what he’s stolen? Do f*ck off.
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Meandering Herder retweeted
.@JimBreuer roasts the election propaganda from the Democrats 🤣
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Democrats are trying to frame the divide as the educated versus uneducated. (Smart versus dumb, but more polite.) Should instead be framed as the people who believe news (brainwashed) versus those who know it is fake.
The election showed a "diploma divide," where voters are increasingly split by education level. nbcnews.com/news/education/c…
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Meandering Herder retweeted
Douglas Murray deconstructing New Zealand's false version of history.
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“hey guys we stole an election, jailed MAGA grandmas, facilitated an invasion of your country, raided your president’s home, indicted him, tried to assassinate him, and called you domestic terrorists but now since we lost can we have some unity and not see each other as enemies?”
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Meandering Herder retweeted
Democrats are retarded
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Meandering Herder retweeted
When someone cuts you off over politics the correct response is to bill them for your time, or if you’re not feeling merciful maybe sue them for damages. It’s called opportunity cost. That’s time you could have spent on someone with a soul.
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Meandering Herder retweeted
Haha so accurate!!
When you use AI to replace every mention of "our democracy" with "our bureaucracy," everything starts making a lot more sense.
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Meandering Herder retweeted
As someone who went to law school, did well enough, and teaches the subject at a state U from time to time: the "34 felony counts" line from the Trump case just is a complete joke. Essentially all of them spring from what would normally be charged as a single misdemeanor at a different level.of government (state v. federal)...against which the statute of limitations had already run.
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Meandering Herder retweeted
Can someone tell me why so many of these mass shooters and potential mass shooters lately are “trans” or “nonbinary?” What is happening here? If straight white men were behind so many of these shootings and potential shootings we’d never hear the end of it!
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Democrats concoct a different Trump hoax to keep each of their controlled demographic groups in line. Sex hoax for the ladies. Race hoax for Black voters. Russia hoax for the older generation. Serial Felon hoax for people who don't understand how banks or free speech work.
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