United States 2024: United States Senate Dicussion Thread

[Agent23]

I generally think were living in the calm before the storm.

To many cycles economic, political and other are all linking up this decade to make things utterly miserable I mean honestly as shitty as the economy's doing we really should be doing a lot worse. And this isn't just america by the way, China, Russia, europe the baby boomers are retiring in mass. Their taking their skills, their labor, their money out of the economy and sooner or later the delay form all that hits.

Add the entitled attitude and snobbishness of the millennial generation to the mix and you get a situation that is even worse.
But, it is the boomers that basically told all of them that they must get university degrees in stuff that is often bullshit to get ahead, and the Boomers voted themselves huge entitlements.

However, such downturns and population declines are not really an anomaly, if you look at European history, the increase of population was not a straight line but there were declines and upward bounces, this is just the down part of a cycle and it is IMHO normal.

Once reconstituted, however, the results are like listening through a stethoscope to a breathing organism, in which living is the systole and dying the diastole. The latter was dominated by numbing rates of perinatal and post-natal mortality. In most places, a quarter of the children born did not survive until their first birthday, and only a half lived to celebrate their tenth. The diary of Jean Le Coullon from the countryside around Metz tells an all too familiar story. He was from a family of thirteen children, ten of whom died before they were married. He himself married in January 1545, and his wife bore him his first son, Collignon, the following year, his second son two years later, his third son, Jean, in 1549, and his fourth in 1552. In 1553 his wife died of plague, by which time two children had already died. Jean remarried eleven months later and went on to have other children by his second marriage, but of all the nineteen children of his and his surrounding family mentioned in the diary, only six lived to be twenty years old. He recounts these deaths in his diary alongside details of the weather and the state of the crops. One might imagine that he did not care very much, were it not for the moment when his first namesake son, Jean, died in 1549. Then he writes: ‘It was of such great displeasure to me that I became inconsolable.’


Large surviving families were not common. Life expectancy at birth was low (say, twenty-five years) and, although it improved if you survived to adulthood, you would be lucky to see the age of fifty-five. Those surviving that long tended not to know how old they were. In 1566, Wiriot Guérin, local provost from the village of Gondreville on the river Moselle, declared that he was forty-four years of age. A decade later, he equally solemnly told the officials of the duke of Lorraine that he was ‘sixty years old or more’. Epidemics of killer disease – bubonic plague, but also typhus, scarlet fever and influenza – could wipe away whole families and have a serious impact on local communities. Our demographic stethoscope registers the spasm of the demographic organism as it tries to cope with death rates that suddenly spiral to 6–10 per cent and, on occasion, 30–40 per cent. An important part of the spasm was the primal, or rather social, urge to replenish. Baptismal rates stutter, then recover fast as the organism worked to restore equilibrium; mini baby-booms were a familiar response to demographic catastrophe. Marriage registers reflect the widows and widowers reconstituting their families and consolidating their inheritances.


How, then, was Europe’s population replenishment sustained? The longer series of surviving parish registers pick out cycles of local and regional growth, periodically arrested by a major mortality crisis, each crisis creating its own peaks and troughs in the family and age cohorts of the future. Most of all this lay outside people’s power to control.

From Christendom Destroyed: Europe 1517-1648 by Mark Greengrass

 

[Abhorsen]

Kari Lake seems to not be getting the bump she promised, and IMO will lose.

 

[Captain X]

Hope she demands a recount/audit.

 

[DarthOne]

Kari Lake seems to not be getting the bump she promised, and IMO will lose.

Hope she demands a recount/audit.

Well what do you know? Those darn cameras went out again!

 

[DarthOne]

Hope she demands a recount/audit.

The audit will be delayed, it'll be handled by a company with zero credibility, the results will be obvious (hundreds of ballots with same handwriting, scribble signatures, only the senate candidate voted for and no one else) but technically inconclusive, or a judge from four states over will strike it down, and the Democrat will keep the office in the end.

See you in two years.

 

[colorles]

Add the entitled attitude and snobbishness of the millennial generation to the mix and you get a situation that is even worse.
But, it is the boomers that basically told all of them that they must get university degrees in stuff that is often bullshit to get ahead, and the Boomers voted themselves huge entitlements.

However, such downturns and population declines are not really an anomaly, if you look at European history, the increase of population was not a straight line but there were declines and upward bounces, this is just the down part of a cycle and it is IMHO normal.

From Christendom Destroyed: Europe 1517-1648 by Mark Greengrass

The whole "boomers vs millennial" "feud" is utterly ridiculous. People often forget that all of those well paying trade or industry jobs that many of our parents did, were often rough on the body, unsafe, and lessen both the health and length of life. Combine that with the media, school system and universities feeding the populace with the widespread belief that spending tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars on a college education was the key to not only success, but a safe and healthy career and lifestyle, and it becomes apparent that most parents were just trying to look out for the health and well being of their children to the best of their knowledge and ability.

At some point - ideally sooner than later, but better late than never - a man has to take accountability for the conditions of his own life

 

[Sergeant Foley]

Neither have I.
I am from GA

Georgia Democrats will likely pressure McBath to seek the Governor's Mansion in 2026.

 

[Zachowon]

I poked around a little bit and I found something that could possibly be what Airedale is referring to. Apparently, when Trump was doing one of his off-the-cuff rants, in particular one going after Kemp, he said, "And Stacey Abrams, who still has not conceded, and that's OK [...] Stacey, would you like to take his place? It's OK with me. [...] Of course having her, I think, might be better than having your existing governor, if you want to know what I think. Might very well be better."

Not an official endorsement, but fair enough on a "Trump would rather have had Abrams win than Kemp out of spite" level. Unless he later backtracked, which is completely possible.

I mean I think he backtracked after Kemp won the primary

Georgia Democrats will likely pressure McBath to seek the Governor's Mansion in 2026.

Who?

 

[DarthOne]

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Poll Pads Caught Adding *Hundreds* of Voters in Real Time as Poll is Being Closed

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Poll Pads Caught Adding *Hundreds* of Voters in Real Time as Poll is Being Closed | The Gateway Pundit | by Brian Lupo

The Election Oversight Group, who has been investigating and documenting Georgia’s election problems since the 2020 General Election, in conjunction with County Citizens Defending Freedom, has provided The Gateway Pundit with more evidence that our election system should not be trusted. This...

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The Election Oversight Group, who has been investigating and documentingGeorgia’s election problems since the 2020 General Election, in conjunction with County Citizens Defending Freedom, has provided The Gateway Pundit with more evidence that our election system should not be trusted. This time, it’s direct from Texas but has implications and evidence of occurrences in many other jurisdictions.

In a shocking video that seems to confirm many of the things we knew but couldn’t prove, poll workers in Dallas, Tx captured the number of checked in voters on their poll pads jumping higher and higher right before polls closed. The poll pads are used to check in voters and are the electronic version of the paper “voter roll”, which also keeps a running tally of the number of voters who have been “checked-in” on that particular device. While we only have confirmation of this one precinct because of the video, The Gateway Pundit is told by an individual present that his happened county wide in Dallas County.

As you can see in the shorter of the videos, the poll pad in the screen jumps from 1,080 voters to 1,139 to 1,191 and finally to 1,259. No one or nothing is touching the poll pad as it is doing this. The poll pad displays “Poll Closed” to the left of the count. For full screen video, visit Rumble.com/CannCon or click here and here. Be sure to turn the Quality up to 720 so you can read the numbers in real time.

In the other full length, you can hear other poll workers in the background talking about their poll pads jumping by exorbitant numbers as well.

The group claims that they have been working with poll watchers and workers in another state with evidence of the same phenomenon occurring in several counties. The poll pad voter check-in numbers suddenly jumped right before the polls closed.

The Gateway Pundit will be exclusively covering this story and case as it progresses.

You can donate to the Election Oversight Group here as they take immediate legal action to remedy these issues.

You can see their findings here.

 

[Agent23]

From here on out the Republicans need to turn red states into strongholds that have the most liberal unfriendly and laws possible.

The whole "boomers vs millennial" "feud" is utterly ridiculous. People often forget that all of those well paying trade or industry jobs that many of our parents did, were often rough on the body, unsafe, and lessen both the health and length of life. Combine that with the media, school system and universities feeding the populace with the widespread belief that spending tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars on a college education was the key to not only success, but a safe and healthy career and lifestyle, and it becomes apparent that most parents were just trying to look out for the health and well being of their children to the best of their knowledge and ability.

At some point - ideally sooner than later, but better late than never - a man has to take accountability for the conditions of his own life

The problem is that the Boomers both turned their kids into spoiled brats and pushed them to get useless degrees, and that the boomer-run financial system is a cronyist mess that has not had a real interest rate for over two decades.

Millennials have been fucked over because they could not save and because there is a a lot of useless bloat in the economy and the money printing has inflated the price of assets.
Also, the Boomers basically led no fault divorce and the push for waminz to become feminists and and try and be men in the work place.
All of that has contributed to reduced home ownership and family formation among millennial.

If you want them to be conservative then maybe they need to have something to conserve.

No, if you want us to be conservative, since I am one of that cohort.

 

[Agent23]

Anyway, as fun as badmouthing boomers and millennials is, time to get back to the topic at hand:

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Tens of Billions of US Dollars Were Transferred to Ukraine and then Using FTX Crypto Currency the Funds Were Laundered Back to Democrats in US

Did you ever wonder where all those billions of dollars were going in Ukraine? Did you ever wonder why anyone was trusting the elites in US politics like the Bidens with billions in funds going to Ukraine?


Today it turns out that these were excellent questions.


We have information that the tens of billions of dollars going to Ukraine were actually laundered back to the US to corrupt Democrats and elites using FTX cryptocurrency. Now the money is gone and FTX is bankrupt.


Earlier today we reported that the FTX cryptocurrency appeared to be used in a ponzi scheme involving the Democrats and Ukraine.


TRENDING: BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Tens of Billions of US Dollars Were Transferred to Ukraine and then Using FTX Crypto Currency the Funds Were Laundered Back to Democrats in US


As reported earlier, the FTX crypto company gave at least $40 million to Democrat candidates and causes in the midterms.


Sam Bankman-Fried is Biden’s second biggest donor.

To the Ukraine cheerleaders among us, congratulations, your reeing helped a money laundering scheme for Sloppy Joe and the Democrats.
With friends like the GOP the right in the USA hardly needs enemies.

 

[colorles]

From here on out the Republicans need to turn red states into strongholds that have the most liberal unfriendly and laws possible.

The problem is that the Boomers both turned their kids into spoiled brats and pushed them to get useless degrees, and that the boomer-run financial system is a cronyist mess that has not had a real interest rate for over two decades.

Millennials have been fucked over because they could not save and because there is a a lot of useless bloat in the economy and the money printing has inflated the price of assets.
Also, the Boomers basically led no fault divorce and the push for waminz to become feminists and and try and be men in the work place.
All of that has contributed to reduced home ownership and family formation among millennial.

If you want them to be conservative then maybe they need to have something to conserve.

No, if you want us to be conservative, since I am one of that cohort.

To the bolded: I can say through social experience with many "boomers" is that they genuinely wanted their children to have good childhoods , childhoods they could look back on fondly. Cool toys, fun, vacations - and these boomer men and women (but mostly men let's be honest) did not mind working very hard - often to the detriment of their long term health - to make this happen. With that said, they placed a heavier burden of "raising their children into functioning adults" on the school system. Where older generations would have their children working - either on the family farm, in the mills, trades, etc. as young children and pre-teens (or at least hands on teaching them many different skills), the "boomer" parents were much more likely to let the school system teach relevant skills. And the media and education system, made boomer parents believe that this was the best way, that this was the path to their children being able to live easier, safer, and healthier lives than them in some cushy office jobs. So, these parents wanted to give their children the best childhood possible, and the best education possible for their working lives.

But, as we all know, this was a scam. Universities profited immensely from it ; the school systems gained more and more power and control over entire generations ; and more and more young adults had little to no practical skills. Even something as simple as changing a tire. And "boomer" parents are left wondering "what went wrong, why is my son such a man child" ; when, that is all that he was raised to be through a combination of his "fun and games" childhood and limp wristed, consumerist school system. And, notice I mention "man child" there. Girls never had the same "go out and make it" social expectations, and thus are not subject to the same scrutiny as boys and men here. And females have social protections that men do not have, have never had and never will have.

Always remember: your parents did not have a crystal ball. They didn't know everything. They were younger men and women once, growing up and to various extents products of their societies and times and to the social beliefs of the times. Just like all of us are. It is never too late for any of us, or out parents, to learn from our mistakes and go forward. Fighting with each other is exactly what the enemy of family structure wants

 

[Agent23]

Tucker weighs in a bit on the Bankman-Fried mess in a video about Musk:

 

[Agent23]

 

[Bacle]

Trump already scamming the GOP voters, again, in the Walker runoff race.

 

[DarthOne]

Trump already scamming the GOP voters, again, in the Walker runoff race.

Are we sure this isn’t a fake?

 

[DarthOne]

Seems someone couldn’t resist opening their mouth to brag.

 

[Free-Stater 101]

Seems someone couldn’t resist opening their mouth to brag.

I don't see your point? Everyone knew a clash between Trump and DeSantis was inevitable at some point I don't see how this guy admitting that the media helped it along is all that shocking.

 

[DarthOne]

I don't see your point? Everyone knew a clash between Trump and DeSantis was inevitable at some point I don't see how this guy admitting that the media helped it along is all that shocking.

Oh by all means, do explain how it was inevitable. I wanna hear this one.

Also:



Nancy Pelosi Claims Paul Pelosi Is Why There Was No Red Wave & Endorses Joe Biden To Run In 2024!

 

[Sobek]

Reggardless of weather you are one of the Trump Droppers or Trump Backers, the fact is Mitch has to go.

Mc-BYE!!!

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