Comments on: Open thread 8/16/2025

By: Sennacherib

Sennacherib — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 17:56:09 +0000

The Left’s ideology has one single sell point
FREE. It’s one of those ideologies that looks
good joining it, but the moment you’re far enough in you can’t get out . ( The old vote your way in and shoot you way out.)

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 06:45:17 +0000

@ Barry > in re ““They’re trapped in a hell of their own making, Part Two”—”

Here is Sasha Stone’s Part I of what is, at root, her own changer story.
I don’t always agree with her outlook (because I didn’t experience the same things she did), but as a personal testimony her writings are worth contemplating.

https://www.sashastone.com/p/the-democrats-are-trapped-in-a-hell

By: om

om — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 05:15:36 +0000

Open Thread Sunday:

The Alaska Summit and the War in Ukraine – The Meeting, Battlefield & what comes next? – Perun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O-YFdgtZHM

Timestamps:
00:00:00 — Opening Words
00:00:27 — What Am I Talking About?
00:02:50 — Towards Anchorage
00:07:58 — Alaska
00:16:14 — Winners and Losers (So Far)?
00:25:20 — Long Range Strike
00:34:46 — Pressure Point – Battlefield
00:50:42 — Pokrovsk Case Study
00:57:10 — What Comes Next?
00:59:30 — Channel Update

By: R2L

R2L — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 03:58:00 +0000

@ TJ: “Game. Set. No match…yet.”
Could we rejoice a little and say the match was struck and the fuse was now lit?

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 02:37:16 +0000

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/08/the_left_has_turned_psychotherapy_into_the_problem_it_was_invented_to_cure.html
==
No more third-party payments, no more government jobs, no more ‘training’ programs at state colleges, and no more state licensing boards. Let this nexus of occupations die.

By: huxley

huxley — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 23:32:18 +0000

Walsch and his team call it “The Global Conversation.” They claim to respect and empower everyone, but they keep changing the format and trying to control/censor the conversations.

Walsch barely participates beyond writing the initial posts. There’s not much activity either.

By: Miguel cervantes

Miguel cervantes — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 23:12:02 +0000

How do people believe this ridiculous claptrap, i can see why he deleted it

By: huxley

huxley — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 22:21:31 +0000

These old boomers are True Believer communists — see the red clenched fist thrusting upward?

TJ:

Quite so.

Most Americans, including Democrats, have no idea how deeply entrenched the hard-core revolutionary left is in all those anti-everything demonstrations.

During the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) period I was commenting at a New Age blog run by Neale “Conversations with God” Walsch. Walsch had fallen in love with #Occupy as a Third Way, neither right nor left, which would lead us magically out of the morass of politics to a better world.

Nonsense. #Occupy wasn’t that at all, as I informed Walsch:
____________________________

#Occupy is basically a mélange of communists, socialists, anarchists, the homeless, fringe people, and economic casualties who are disrupting the rest of the society in a selfish and unconstructive manner. This is not going to end well for #Occupy nor for liberal reactionaries who instinctively support leftist demonstrations.
____________________________

Walsch called me out to support my outlandish claims. He was looking for his “Have you no decency, sir?” moment à la the 1954 McCarthy hearings.

Of course, I had no trouble doing so and put up dozens of comments with cites showing the direct relationships of #Occupy with the hard left.

Walsch quickly and silently left the discussion. This left a half-dozen commenters spouting their incoherent philosophies or attacking me personally. I kept putting up more cites and they eventually gave up.

Not long afterward Walsh reset the entire blog so all previous conversations, including that one, were deleted. However it does live on at the Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20111130082214/https://www.theglobalconversation.com/blog/

By: Bob Wilson

Bob Wilson — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 20:12:41 +0000

There may be Spanish speakers here. Congresswoman Delia Ramirez said in a speech in Guatemala: “soy guatemalteca antes de ser americana”. That is unambiguous. I am a Guatemalan before American. Literally, this is incorrect, she was born here of illegal alien parents. By the birthright doctrine, she became American, the second she was born. But intellectually, she is correct. She obviously considers herself Guatemalan and not American. Let’s hope Scotus declares the clear meaning of the 14th amendment and rules that birthright citizenship does not exist. Unfortunately, the squishes will probably rule for birthright citizenship. But at least it should be unambiguous.

By: TJ

TJ — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 14:25:07 +0000

Kash Patel was on Hannity, Thursday night. About the depth of his shock FBI document findings, Matt Margolis at PJmedia has this quote:

“Think about this for a second,” he told Hannity. “We exposed the Russiagate hoax… the FISA abuses, the corruption of political parties, and the lies to a federal court just to illegally surveil a presidential candidate. I came in years later thinking we uncovered most of it. But sadly, we found a room locked away locked away in the Hoover building that contained burn bags,” he continued. “We didn’t find one. We found seven. That wasn’t the only thing we found in there. We found hard drives from our predecessors and prior FBI leadership and folks like Page, Strzok, Comey, McCabe, Comey, the list goes on from Russiagate. The names were strewn all over these materials.”
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/08/15/kash-patel-describes-explosive-fbi-burn-room-discovery-n4942745#google_vignette

Game. Set. No match…yet.