Oldest rule in politics...to the victor go the spoils.
Politics is "who gets what".
Yesterday, I stopped at a stop sign at a quiet residential intersection on a lazy afternoon when there was no other traffic about. It being close to the winter solstice, it was dim but not really dark.
After looking right, then left, and seeing it was clear, I was about to go and turn left when the thought popped into my head that I should check right again. I did, and flying down the street comes a black guy in a black hat wearing navy blue clothes on one of those mini-motorbikes without a headlight. He blended right in. He was either near impossible to see the first time I looked right, or must have rounded a nearby corner or come down from the gently slopping hill at such a high rate of speed he wasn't there at my first glace right. He wasn't there at my first glance right, I swear on it. This all took place inside 2 seconds.
I waited until he whipped past, and he stared at me as I dashed by, somewhat surprised that I almost went and hit his careless ass, a look of almost anger was on his face.
I have no accounting for where this internal voice came from. But what it did save me from was seriously injuring or even killing a stupid but otherwise innocent man.
Ever have anything like that happen to you? You listen to a voice in your head tell you to do something, something that you COULD NOT have known rationally would make sense. You listen, and good comes of it. I'm not talking about your conscience telling you not to lie or steal, but some other gift of natural prophecy or divine warning.
Even hardcore skeptics have surely had this happen to them.
Did you know that celebrating birthdays, which in ancient Greece and Rome you did for a "god" or "emperor" (who wanted to be worshiped as a god) was considered a PAGAN practice by early Christians?
Did you know that in some middle eastern cultures they still don't celebrate birthdays?
Now do you understand why Jesus birthday celebration wasn't something the people living in Rome who knew Christ cared to do. Mary was alive and the most likely source of Luke's gospel which has the whole infancy narrative of Jesus. If he interviewed her, the woman who give birth to the man (even if you think he was an ordinary man) do you think Mary carried a calendar around?
Don't be surprised that when a politicians use their power to reward their friends and punish their enemies...or in other words "to the victor go the spoils."
That's what politics is at the very core of the meaning of the word. Politics is not voting, or legislative bodies, or presidents or cabinet ministers. Those are just the MEANS by which there are decisions of who gets what, when, where and why.
I say no....riots are only useful if they coincide with something else. It's to far away from in the inauguration and nothing else much in the US is in the narrative at the moment.
Yes, yes, spontaneous riots do occur.
The democrats can whip up a good bit of social disruption easy-peasy...but their taking the election of literally Hitler lying down (pun intended). Why?
Are they waiting for the right event to kick it off? Perry's acquittal? Jan 20th itself? The first picture of a cute kid being deported?
Or are they a bit stunned and playing rope-a-dope?
Your take please.
I'm surprised not to see pro-Russia anti(fill-in-the-blank) posts here by the people that typically rip on America.
Situation: Turkey, using NATO (i.e. United States) intelligence and guidance led anti-Assad forces to take strategic locations in Syria, threatening the only Russian port in the Middle East. The US is attacking Iranian led militias which arm jihadis in the region, but the anti-Assad forces are essentially ISIS, another CIA creation. It looks like Assad might finally fall unless the Russians step up their game. But....
Russia, already ass deep in Ukraine is now fighting a two front war helping Assad.
All this before Trump takes office and we'll end up with a sort of peace of some sort.
Biden isn't in charge...so the CIA etc. are mucking things up before they get a new boss.
...It's all for show. All this stuff with their supreme court and the disputed election is all just part of selection process. None of it is real.
Trust me, it's all so obvious. I can see it. If you can't like me you must be a jew or a fool.
Anyway....this opinion piece is a joke. Let's have more facts and less opinion.
What I'm referring to: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/29/romanian-court-to-rule-on-whether-presidential-election-should-be-rerun-calin-georgescu