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UNEXPECTEDLY! How COVID Pushed a Generation of Young People to the Right. For decades, America’s young voters have been deeply—and famously—progressive. In 2008, a youthquake sent Barack Obama to the White House. In 2016, voters ages 18 to 29 broke for Hillary Clinton by 18 points. In 2020, they voted for Joe Biden by 24 points. In 2024, Donald Trump closed most of the gap, losing voters under 30 by a 51–47 margin. In one recent CBS poll, Americans under 30 weren’t just evenly split between the parties. They were even more pro-Trump than Boomers over 65. Precisely polling teens and 20-somethings is a fraught business; some surveys suggest that Trump’s advantage among young people might already be fading. But young people’s apparent lurch right is not an American-only trend. “Far-right parties are surging across Europe—and young voters are buying in,” the journalist Hanne Cokelaere wrote for Politico last year. In France, Germany, Finland, and beyond, young voters are swinging their support toward anti-establishment far-right parties “in numbers equal to and even exceeding older voters.” In Germany, a 2024 survey of 2,000 people showed that young people have adopted a relatively new “gloomy outlook” on the future. No surprise, then, that the far-right Alternative für Deutschland has become the most popular party among Germans under 30. Like most interesting phenomena, this one even has a German name: Rechtsruck, or rightward shift. What’s driving this global Rechtsruck? It’s hard to say for sure. Maybe the entire world is casting a protest vote after several years of inflation. Last year was the largest wipeout for political incumbents in the developed world since the end of the Second World War. One level deeper, it wasn’t inflation on its own, but rather the combination of weak real economic growth and record immigration that tilled the soil for far-right upstarts, who can criticize progressive governments on both sides of the Atlantic for their failure to look out for their own citizens first. There is another potential driver of the global right turn: the pandemic. Pandemics might not initially seem to cash out in any particular political direction. After all, in the spring of 2020, one possible implication of the pandemic seemed to be that it would unite people behind a vision of collective sacrifice—or, at least, collective appreciation for health professionals, or for the effect of vaccines to reduce severe illness among adults. But political science suggests that pandemics are more likely to reduce rather than build trust in scientific authorities. https://archive.is/yHvH6 Yes, why could that be? And then in June, after the public went along with the lockdowns because of that message being constantly hammered home by Fauci, Birx, videos of celebrities singing “Imagine” from their mansions and yachts, and the somber repetitive “We’re all in this together” television commercials, the entire health care profession did a 180 that was worthy of Oceania: EXACTLY “That episode single-handedly destroyed trust in public health officials, proving they’d politicize their expertise when convenient. Corporate media celebrated a douchebag-lawyer shaming families at deserted beaches, then — overnight! — cheered densely packed street protests.”

Ok Hillary

Any political party has trouble winning three in a row, so Hillary, not very popular anyway, ran into the third term blues, and then bad luck with Biden, he just aged out and inflation is a bYtch that Harris couldn't run away from In 1948 Harry Truman taught the Dems how to win in the face of inflation. A younger Biden could of won that way, but Harris didn't have the touch

No what's embarrassing is you guys can't quit Russia. All because you couldn't handle that Hillary lost and had to glom-onto anything to explain it. And the difference between the Afghanistan war is that was actually our war. But Biden didn't need to withdraw when he did, much less the way he did. Again if Ukraine and Europe end up being cutout of this agreement and neither of them like it, they don't have to accept it and the war can go on.

None of that smelled right at the time. ALL of this will be revisited: Benghazi, Hillary's private server, The Clinton Foundation -- heck let's take it all the way back to cattle futures and that Little Rock drugrunning airport. There is so MUCH to investigate it's hard to know what to investigate next.

Crash!! Boom Trump destroying airline safety! Hillary never crashed an airliner

Hillary desperate to stay, not relevant, but at least in the public eye. 600k is found in Elon’s couch cushions. Hopefully they consider the slate clean if he returns the stranded astronauts in one piece. Hard to believe NASA hasn’t been able to do that. Sad.

USAID has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive US government financed NGO, "Internews Network" (IN), which has “worked with” 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and "training” over 9000 journalists (2023 figures). IN has also supported social media censorship initiatives. The operation claims “offices” in over 30 countries, including main offices in US, London, Paris and regional HQs in Kiev, Bangkok and Nairobi. It is headed up by Jeanne Bourgault, who pays herself $451k a year. Bourgault worked out of the US embassy in Moscow during the early 1990s, where she was in charge of a $250m budget, and in other revolts or conflicts at critical times, before formally rotating out of six years at USAID to IN. Bourgault’s IN bio and those of its other key people and board members have been recently scrubbed from its website but remain accessible at http://archive.org. Records show the board being co-chaired by Democrat securocrat Richard J. Kessler and Simone Otus Coxe, wife of NVIDIA billionaire Trench Coxe, both major Democratic donors. In 2023, supported by Hillary Clinton, Bourgault launched a $10m IN fund at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). The IN page showing a picture of Bourgault at the CGI has also been deleted. IN has at least six captive subsidiaries under unrelated names including one based out of the Cayman Islands. Since 2008, when electronic records begin, more than 95% of IN's budget has been supplied by the US government (thread follows)

Trump's assault on CDC already getting results! Bird flu? What bird flu? They are simply going to pretend this isn't happening. I guess the plan is to just tell people like @Orlando Buffalo Hillary did it. Old Orlando is probably nodding knowingly think he figured that was the case

USAID has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive US government financed NGO, "Internews Network" (IN), which has “worked with” 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and "training” over 9000 journalists (2023 figures). IN has also supported social media censorship initiatives. The operation claims “offices” in over 30 countries, including main offices in US, London, Paris and regional HQs in Kiev, Bangkok and Nairobi. It is headed up by Jeanne Bourgault, who pays herself $451k a year. Bourgault worked out of the US embassy in Moscow during the early 1990s, where she was in charge of a $250m budget, and in other revolts or conflicts at critical times, before formally rotating out of six years at USAID to IN. Bourgault’s IN bio and those of its other key people and board members have been recently scrubbed from its website but remain accessible at archive.org. Records show the board being co-chaired by Democrat securocrat Richard J. Kessler and Simone Otus Coxe, wife of NVIDIA billionaire Trench Coxe, both major Democratic donors. In 2023, supported by Hillary Clinton, Bourgault launched a $10m IN fund at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). The IN page showing a picture of Bourgault at the CGI has also been deleted. IN has at least six captive subsidiaries under unrelated names including one based out of the Cayman Islands. Since 2008, when electronic records begin, more than 95% of IN's budget has been supplied by the US government (thread follows)

I'm not one for bring back old threads. There are some fascinating replies in the 13 year old thread though. Meanwhile: Most everyone here knows the story. This is well condensed, however. So here's the REAL story: Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to secretly retrieve US made Stinger Missiles that the State Dept had supplied to Ansar al Sharia in Libya WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission. Sec State Hillary Clinton had brokered the Libya deal through Ambassador Stevens and a Private Arms Dealer named Marc Turi, but some of the shoulder fired Stinger Missiles ended up in Afghanistan where they were used against our own military. On July 25th, 2012, a US Chinook helicopter was downed by one of them. Not destroyed only because the idiot Taliban didn't arm the missile. The helicopter didn't explode, but it had to land and an ordnance team recovered the missile’s serial number which led back to a cache of Stinger Missiles kept in Qatar by the CIA. Obama and Hillary were in full panic mode, so Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to retrieve the rest of the Stinger Missiles. This was a "do-or-die" mission, which explains the Stand Down Orders given to multiple rescue teams during the siege of the US Embassy. It was the State Dept, NOT the CIA, that supplied the Stinger Missiles to our sworn enemies because Gen. Petraeus at CIA would not approve supplying the deadly missiles due to their potential use against commercial aircraft. So then, Obama threw Gen. Petraeus under the bus when he refused to testify in support of Obama’s phony claim of a “spontaneous uprising caused by a YouTube video that insulted Muslims.” Obama and Hillary committed TREASON! THIS is what the investigation is all about, WHY she had a Private Server, (in order to delete the digital evidence), and WHY Obama, two weeks after the attack, told the UN that the attack was the result of the YouTube video, even though everyone KNEW it was not. Furthermore, the Taliban knew that the administration had aided and abetted the enemy WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission, so they began pressuring (blackmailing) the Obama Administration to release five Taliban generals being held at Guantanamo. Bowe Bergdahl was just a useful pawn used to cover the release of the Taliban generals. Everyone knew Bergdahl was a traitor but Obama used Bergdahl’s exchange for the five Taliban generals to cover that Obama was being coerced by the Taliban about the unauthorized Stinger Missile deal. So we have a traitor as POTUS that is not only corrupt, but compromised, as well and a Sec of State that is a serial liar, who perjured herself multiple times at the Congressional Hearings on Benghazi. Perhaps this is why no military aircraft were called upon for help in Benghazi: because the administration knew that our enemies had Stinger Missiles that, if used to down those planes, would likely be traced back to the CIA cache in Qatar and then to the State Dept’s illegitimate arms deal in Libya. .

Nah. I'm good. As I said, you know you're not supposed to root for Christolph Waltz in Inglorious Bastards, right? Lmfao how does Hillary live in your heads like this. It's not healthy.

Fun. Hillary is in Redhawk/Roundy mode. Can’t she just go away? Thankfully nobody listens to any of them.

"Learn to code." Yeah and could have blamed Wuhan virus completely on him, instead of seeing that Biden didn't do/Hillary wouldn't have done any better. And inflation as well.

Like Hillary Clinton's crimes, we'll get to see when they're charged.

The Hillary clip might make his head explode.

I’d think from a moral perspective, most people would agree his actions were very, very bad. I certainly do. Dipping into whataboutism for just a second, Joe Biden acknowledged groping multiple women, Kamala Harris believed he was guilty of doing so, and Harris subsequently partnered with Bill Clinton and his enabling wife, Hillary—all of whom were involved in all sorts of behavior most sensible people would acknowledge raised question of immoral behavior that wound earn a “WOW”.

Thankish, Frankish. Assuming you're correct, this is why I simply follow the mindset that voters tend to be very strident when they feel the other party is guilty of wrongdoing, yet quite comfortable when it's their guy pimping the agenda they prefer. So, that brings me to the notion that after the last 4 years of unprecedented legal action by JB against one man, he (JB) would be quite foolish not to unconditionally pardon family members/business associates etc in the future. Trump should follow suit, of course as/if the political landscape changes. This raises another question imo, for a Pres/DOJ(assume Trump here)--assuming wrong-doers (Biden family members or close associates) cannot "be got" due to pardons, does an aggressive prosecutor look for second tier targets for political gain? For example, they look into/around Jill Biden for example, make a case and push forward. Or, they revisit wrongdoing by someone like Hillary Clinton...Ashley Biden (Assuming she wasn't preemptively pardoned of course). It's been ugly the past 4 years but could get much uglier still.

I agree that they have botched the whole classified documents thing, going back to Hillary servers and before that. Having independent special counsels to gather facts, or what they consider to be, is the best thing they've done. Completely pissed that there are efforts to keep those reports from the people, so they can make up their own minds, is a problem that isn't being discussed. How they handle prosecutions is one thing we can judge. How they handle the information, and if we're allowed to access it is another. Right after removing all the fact checkers on social media was praised, this is how they reacted to this: In a letter to Garland, Trump's lawyers said the dropped charges were a "complete exoneration" of the president-elect. They called the release of Smith's report "imprudent and unlawful" and said it would "perpetuate false and discredited accusations.” Thanks guys, but I'd like to make that decision myself, based on the report, rather than take your word for it.

"Never let a serious crisis go to waste" is straight out of the Rahm Emanuel / Hillary Clinton playbook. Mayor cut 17 million from the fire budget in spite of her hand picked fire chief telling her it was a very bad idea. But hey, she was able to give 1.3 billion to homeless drug addicts to keep them happy so it's all good.

Bill Cosby (WH opinion: can't be revoked) Bill Belichick (granted it by Trump, then refused it after Jan 6, maybe he'll get it again) Robert McNamara (the best and brightest Vietnam strategist) Donald Rumsfeld Jonas Salk (perpetrator of poison posing as a polio vaccine, or so I've heard) Eddie DeBartolo (owner of the Mafia's Team) Strom Thurmond, famous racist Arnold Palmer (awarded after private locker room viewing) Jack Nicklaus (sans such viewing) Bill Clinton (to throw a curve) Bill Gates (noted "vaccine" ruse chip-implanter) Joe Biden (noted father of Hunter) Devin Nunes and Jim Jordan (a Trumpy two-fer) John McCain (famous for being a bad pilot who got captured) Al Gore and John Kerry (the Biden two-fer and perpetrators of the Great Climate Hoax) Nancy Pelosi Hillary Clinton (famous Satanic Rights crusader) Magic Johnson (the Boy Who Lived) RFK Sr (father of Bear Cub Butcher and Brain Worm experiment) George Romney (son of Mormon who fled the USA in order to practice polygamy, father of RINO dog abuser) George Soros is in fine company.

Wow, you make some good points. It is shocking that the FBI, with at least 26 informants on site , had no idea this was going to happen. Truly they had so little clue they did not request a single extra police officer to show up to protect the Capitol. This is not to mention that the groups looking to overthrow the government were clever enough to leave all of their weapons outside of DC so they couldn't be caught on a weapons charge. Truly these politicians were facing the same kind of threat as Hillary did on that tarmac in Bosnia.

Apologies to Frankish in advance as I am not currently able to link, though it’s probably easy enough to find. Tonight’s NBC Evening News, hosted by Kate Snow in for Jose Diaz-Something, had a nice feature on President Brandon’s ceremony awarding the Medal of Honor to a host of individuals. Named specifically in the report - Hillary, Denzel, Magic, philanthropist chef, Michael J Fox. Not mentioned at all - G Soros. I think we can all agree that the inclusion of Soros is newsworthy. Perhaps Frankish will deign to explain to us why a reliable mainstream news outlet would play it as they did.

Other recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Saturday include humanitarian and chef José Andrés, whose World Central Kitchen has helped provide food for civilians in war zones and areas hit by natural disasters; Jane Goodall, a highly acclaimed conservationist and scientist; and Bill Nye, a science educator who rose to fame with the show “Bill Nye the Science Guy.” Several entertainment, sports and cultural icons will also be honored, including U2 singer Bono, actors Michael J. Fox and Denzel Washington, athletes Lionel Messi and Earvin “Magic” Johnson, and fashion icons Anna Wintour and Ralph Lauren. Biden will honor multiple recipients posthumously, including Robert F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1968 during a presidential run. Kennedy was a senator representing New York and had served as attorney general during the administration of his brother, President John F. Kennedy. Also being honored posthumously is Ashton Carter, who was secretary of defense during the Obama administration and oversaw the United States’ push against the Islamic State, and George Romney, the governor of Michigan during the 1960s and the father of former Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/hillary-clinton-george-soros-receive-presidential-medal-freedom-rcna186204?

I might even be able to see Hillary (maybe) because at the very least she has served her country, although she may have lied & done a S**T job at it while she was Secretary of State !! But Soros being a outstanding citizen just shows exactly what a POS Biden is in his thoughts of our country & how he would have even ruined it more if he had a chance of being elected again .