Posts made by Rembrandt

Getting pretty damned serious now.

@Frank said in Black Lives Matter:

I guess Don Lemon would say his views have "evolved".

Scary isn't it.

Either intentional deception (which is evil considering the consequences) or like many others he's been completely brainwashed into the woke cult.

An oldie but a goodie

@antipodean Jesus H fuck, I had to check to see if that was a satire account. It's not.

Why can't we just give them their own country, give it a few months and then come back to find the problem has rectified itself.

I wonder willing is the populace going to be going back to house arrest after only recently tasting freedom? Might be a fair few saying "fuck it, I did my part and government still fucked it up, not going to do that again"

Should have just thrown bricks and destroyed property like nice reasonable people.

https://martinezgazette.com/two-martinez-residents-charged-with-hate-crime-for-defacing-black-lives-matter-mcontrural/

@canefan By keeping business closed because covid

@Crucial said in US Politics:

@Rembrandt said in US Politics:

@JC I stopped following it, but since it isn't big news now it it is probably become just another 'walls are closing in' moment. I'm sure the next bombshell is only a day or 2 away.

On a a positive note 4.8 million jobs added in June is a good sign. https://thehill.com/policy/finance/505577-june-jobs-report-economy-coronavirus-reopening
Trump's aggregated approval rating has also stabilised along with it.

Would be great if 2020 had no more nasty surprises.

The jobs number is simply a rebound.
I have seen a chart that puts it into perspective. Massive drop followed by a small gain.
Yes, positive that the rebound has started but nothing out of the ordinary and consistent with the attempts to “re-open”
Claiming a victory from it has possibilities of setting up a failure should the growth not continue the same.

Yep agree though I think Trump's approval rating and chance of success this election is tied pretty tightly to this, as such I'd be expecting Democrats (and their media outlets) to do everything in their power to ensure the economy does not recover and covid/blm/Godzilla (or whatever the hell is next) remains front-an-centre

@JC I stopped following it, but since it isn't big news now it it is probably become just another 'walls are closing in' moment. I'm sure the next bombshell is only a day or 2 away.

On a a positive note 4.8 million jobs added in June is a good sign. https://thehill.com/policy/finance/505577-june-jobs-report-economy-coronavirus-reopening
Trump's aggregated approval rating has also stabilised along with it.

Would be great if 2020 had no more nasty surprises.

@canefan said in Coronavirus - Australia:

What's gone wrong in VIC? Let down at the border?

It would be extremely interesting if there were an inquiry into what happened.

We interrupt our non-stop coverage of "everything is racist!", to return to our previous coverage of "everything is sexist!"
Don't ever change Guardian, eventually you are just going to have to cancel yourself.

@Crucial I genuinely hope your point of view is the correct one here. Though what would be your 'red line' for when you'd think this age of woke has gone too far and needs to be fought back against?

@photo-fox Good post. A regular tactic from certain outlets comparing say Sweden or NZ to the USA to make some ridiculous point or mainstream press taking a few isolated tweets and framing them as opinion of a large section of society.

@Victor-Meldrew said in Black Lives Matter:

@Rembrandt said in Black Lives Matter:

Known white supremacist 'Frederick Douglass'.

Looked the bloke up. Amazing story and speeches. Trump has actually been praising Douglass for the last few years, comparing him to MLK (which isn't an unfair comparison TBH). Trump's already attacked the "anarchists" who pulled the statue down.

Makes you wonder if it wasn't loony white supremacists, it was the loopy anti-Trump brigade thinking praise from Trump automatically makes you evil...

Yeah my post was a joke, I thought he was more of a household name. Amazing guy alright. Yeah this statue pulling down has zero to do with saving black lives. The goal is to destroy society.

I think @Siam posted this video earlier, good summary of what we are actually seeing here. The difference between this attempt to burn the world down and previous attempts is that now academic control to the extremists is almost total and we don't have a functioning media apparatus who can be trusted to point out when they have gone too far.

Maybe defunding social sciences is the only way to stop this plague?

@antipodean Its certainly more publicly palatable than the other causes.

Known white supremacist 'Frederick Douglass'.

@MajorRage Left/Right vs Conservative/Woke ? Imagine being a far-right wokeist! I guess all compass tests are pretty flawed but I thought one axis was supposed to be Authoritarian vs Libertarian?

https://www.politicalcompass.org/test

@voodoo said in Black Lives Matter:

@Rembrandt said in Black Lives Matter:

Its hard to give a damn about this death. Her brain was poisoned by social justice ideology, they blocked a motorway to spread their message and someone drove right through them. Despite the early reporting of a'far right attack' it turns out the driver was black.
https://newsone.com/3970690/dawit-kelete-seattle-protest-hit-run-driver-identified/

Really?

Sadly yes. And a number of the deaths and injuries from these protest zones. 'Play stupid games win stupid prizes' come to mind. It's all "abolish the police!" until someone is seriously hurt or in danger and then its "quick get the cops!". These people get their way then the carnage we've seen so far will be the tip of the iceberg and it won't be their nice middle class white neighbourhoods that will be feeling the brunt of it (well not for a while) and it certainly won't be the privately secured neighbourhoods of the politicians and celebrities championing this bullshit that will feel the consequences. It's not like there is going to be any real recognition of the carnage in these poor neighbourhoods, their lives don't mean a damn in the world of the virtue signaller.

Sucks for her (well 'non-binary' so no idea what the pronoun is) family, maybe some of them tried to stop her heading down this path.

Its hard to give a damn about this death. Her brain was poisoned by social justice ideology, they blocked a motorway to spread their message and someone drove right through them. Despite the early reporting of a'far right attack' it turns out the driver was black.
https://newsone.com/3970690/dawit-kelete-seattle-protest-hit-run-driver-identified/

@Frank I think you'll find its perfectly legal as long as you are pointing them at police officers at the time of detonation.

This is going to end well.

@Frank said in US Politics:

I actually think the far left defund the police, statue destruction, looting, burning of flags, cancel culture, problems with the BLM movement etc has handed Trump a potentially persuasive message to run on against Biden.

He will attempt to position himself as the defender of America and Biden as passive on these issues. While Biden is actually centrist, Trump will attempt to convince the public that Biden is too old, passive and dottery to know what the fuck is going on with these SJW groups. He will use the fear that these groups will take over if he is not re-elected.

Not saying the message is true, just that I think this will be the campaign's central message. And it might explain why the National Guard was not federalized to quell the rioting. Let the Dem Governors fail to contain it and try to pin it on them.

That's exactly where we went in his Mt Rushmore speech. First one I have listened to the entirety of in a few months now. A terrific speech, lays out exactly what you say, gives the listeners a quick history lesson on the men whose faces are carved into that mountain and gives the voters a simple choice.

Have to say though as good as the speech was he is showing signs of fatigue, no where near the energy of a few months back, a few word slurs (nothing dramatic, but definitely noticeable). I'll need to find a recent similar length Biden talk to compare to see if maybe his gaffs are overblown.

@Crucial I think Oprah is a bad example to use as someone likely unaware. Her relationship with rapey Weinstein a good example of her having blind eye when it suits. Others on the list may be though, I understand he did a lot of events with scientists as well.

A good lesson on how to turn Democrat contributers into Republican voters. This is outside the McCloskey residence today (Couple that pulled weapons on the peaceful protesters that pulled a gate down to get on to private property and threaten to burn their house down)

@photo-fox
This is worth a watch. Unsurprisingly this movement led by extremists driven by resentment who want to tear down society aren't exactly giving a fair reading of history. The sick part is place like the BBC who are more than capable to push back are unwilling.

Well I put a lazy $25 on Kamella Harris being the nominee. She's pro establishment, the correct skin colour for office with the (assumedly) correct genitalia and I've heard a rumour there's a bit of a flu going around. It's paying $91.00. Mrs Obama was only paying $25.00

Aggregate polling shows that he is now at his 1 year floor.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval-6179.html

Alarm bells would have to sound if he goes below 40% approval. I'd expect him to bounce back in the next month if the economy continues to improve and if law and order starts to be visibly restored. Both big 'ifs' though.

edit - I can't read graphs

@Crucial Cheers just found it too. I loved CNN's actual accurate summary of his response to the question

"Not healthcare, not revive the economy, not continue the coronavirus fight, I have more experience and Bolton's an idiot". Classic Trump right there.

Seems odd timing regarding the ACA alright. I know there is a big argument from conservatives against it but valid or not you'd think you'd want to delay the challenge a couple months until this health scare is less 'front and centre'. I guess it was a campaign promise so maybe hoping to sneak in a win there prior to the election.

@Crucial said in US Politics:

@Kirwan said in US Politics:

@Crucial said in US Politics:

@junior said in US Politics:

@Duluth said in US Politics:

@Frank said in US Politics:

@Duluth said in US Politics:

@Frank

Dem convention is 20th of August

I still suspect he won’t be the nominee. If I’m correct that will be stage managed. A Biden press conference with his wife, she talked him out of running for health reasons etc etc.. That would happen a week or so before the convention for maximum impact

Do you suspect he won't be the nominees because you think the Dems themselves believe is indeed in a state of serious decline and it will be too obvious to voters?
Or another reason?

Dems are talking about it. His own campaign is clearly limiting his unscripted moments

Rasmussen polls are dodgy as fuck but 20% of Dem voters said they think he has dementia. If the real number is half that, it’s still pretty bad

Maybe he is fine. The perception is what matters

Who do they replace him with? The reason they've largely ignored the primary results and gone with him is due to the (probably misguided) belief that he has the best chance against Trump.

I don’t think it matters who the Dems put up against Trump this time. Barring skullduggery at the ballot Trump is gone.

2016 called and wants it's Hillary can't lose slogan back.

Working hard to remove medical cover from voters without a replacement idea while in the middle of a pandemic is a pretty dumb move.
Even when lined up with a soft question of “what will be your focus next term” he was unable to point out anything. He is expecting votes for a concept and/or to keep ‘the other side’ out.

What's your source for these?

Election interference goes up another notch. Twitter now deleting memes of Trump posted by Trump.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1278040506908446721/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1278040506908446721|twgr^&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthedonald.win%2Fp%2FGIJHKfGb%2Ftwitter-removed-trumps-tweet--af%2Fc%2F

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@antipodean said in Black Lives Matter:

@Rembrandt Interviews like Ami's with genuinely privileged white people make me laugh and shake my head. It's astonishing how delusional people can be - " I feel safe, so there's no requirement for police and I assume everyone else feels the same", not realising the preconditions for that aura of public safety. And presuming to know the experience of others and speak for them.

Now that's modern racism.

And that's the cancer of social media. You get demonetised, demoted and banned for putting up an alternative point of view even if backed up with hard stats so these folk are often never exposed to the other side of a story.

Its like the idea that twitter represents actual peoples view. Removing the police is a great idea for university graduates pumped up on the evil of Marxism, criminals intent on commiting more crime and the average useful idiot from money who doesn't bother researching crime statistics and instead follows headlines written by said Marxist university graduates.

Real people in these areas are the ones who will suffer.

@MajorRage said in Black Lives Matter:

@Rembrandt I'm guessing you've already seen this one. Same theme

Yep, some doozy compilations of rich white blm protesters attacking black police doing the rounds too. This is from yesterday. Imagine if mainstream news actually reported what was going on rather than spin the bs 'pEAceFul PrOteTers' yarn.

@Paekakboyz said in Brexit:

Bit of lightweight fluff via Reddit.

Brexit Consequences - a couple who planned to retire in France...

https://www.reddit.com/r/brexit/comments/hiic5g/brexit_consequences_a_couple_who_planned_to/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

Sounds like a swell guy sharing all of that.

It's easy to see why Tucker is the most watched show in all of US prime time TV

@Duluth said in US Politics:

@Rembrandt

Marketing issues not technical ones

They picked a frog logo as the media was discovering pepe. The also got involved in a few 4chan jokes. It was poor tactics that made demonising them easier

I doubt even 4chan thought their hoaxes would have been taken so seriously. The moron brigade still bang on about the ok symbol and a green cartoon frog as being the new swastika. Was milk being white supremacist another joke of theirs? Had this sent to me today:

@Duluth What did Gab do? I missed that entirely so was surprised to see Parler outdoing them. I remember they got a lot of bad press since a mass shooter was on the platform but those same articles didn't mention the shooters facebook/twitter and other mass shooter social media accounts.