ROK Drop Open Thread – February 21, 2025

I wonder why the Setnaffarians can’t seem to distinguish between reality and the fake news spewed by the extreme right.

Oh wait—they are the extreme right.

ExTrEmE right is like racist.

It has been so misused that it is neither meaningful nor an insult.

It is now a synonym for “You don’t agree with the leftist politics i have adopted because i need group identity, as my individual life is without meaning or purpose. i need collectivism because i feel entitled but can’t take care of myself. i need bigger government to protect me from my constantly poor decisions.”

When you accuse me of being ExTrEmE right, I do not hear you call me a monster.

I hear you call yourself a loser.

Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s Counterrevolution in Washington

@VDHanson
discusses the misleading information about the first 30 days of the Trump administration’s actions, comparing it to FDR’s first hundred days. On this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Hanson describes the current period as a “Trump restoration” rather than a revolution, emphasizing it as a counterrevolution against the changes brought by the Obama administration.

“We don’t really appreciate what we’ve been through with eight years of the Obama revolution and the four-year, more radical third term of Obama using or employing the wax effigy of Joe Biden. A revolution that we’ve experienced was a cultural, economic, political, social revolution.  It was very similar to the French Revolution under the Robespierre brothers. You should remember what they tried to do. They changed the days of the week. They renamed things. They tore down statues. They went after the churches. Does this sound familiar? …

“ So this was a revolutionary movement. Movies were different. Sports were different. Take a knee. And Donald Trump came in and it was not sufficient to say we’re going to stop the madness of $37 billion. …  It’s a return to normalcy. It’s a return to common sense. It only looks revolutionary to revolutionaries. But to the rest of the people, it is a counterrevolution to restore normalcy and bring the country from the far-left fringes back home again.”

Woop woo! Raizin Caine is going to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs!
My spouse knows him well. He is a good guy. F16 pilot. Patch wearer (Weapons school top graduate).
And he was in the Guard, which is really unusual. Also a 3 star (very very unusual). This might be unprecedented.

Your former best friend, don’t like you anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2QY916o-Gw

In fact the entire world don’t like you no more.

We’re rubber, you’re glue.

I am loving life.

I am crushing my enemies, seeing them driven before me, and hearing the lamentation of their women.

And the beauty is, everything is open and honest and clearly correct.

For those of you who are engaged…

Rumor has it that Zalensky has accepted Trump’s demands.

…and he will go to France while Ukraine will be properly looted.

Hey… i don’t make the rules.

Trump acknowledges Caine as one of the few military people in positions of leadership who told it to him straight.

Oh, and Barry Soetoro https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1735310313157968206

Only just a matter of time before Trump declares Martial Law as protests around the US right now spreads and spreads.

Let’s see if the US MAGA military obeys the Trump-Musk duo.

Only thing is, there are no riots and protests anywhere but chinabot’s mind.

Flyingsword, Jesse Watters from FOX News laughed and mused this:

The American right uses social media to push the message to all the naive dummies out there. The messages that start small morph organically into bigger and bigger disinformation through word of mouth (social network service).

But the old stupid Democrats are still in the 1990s, holding protests here and there and traditional news channels reporting on them, and then the stories just disappear into thin air.

The South Korean DPK party, knows fully well what the right-wing American influence (X, Youtube, Google, Facebook, etc) is doing not just to South Korea, but all of Europe as well – that is spreading disinformation to politically destabilize whole countries to overthrow democratic systems. Using Democracy to work against itself. The Project 2025 lays all this out in the 900-page plan.

Hey KM, want to help me with my five work activities list? Emailed tasking received Saturday at 3pm. It was a 4 day week so I only have 25 or so.

“Trump also recalled asking the general his name, to which the president said Caine replied, “Razin.” After Trump asked for his last name, he reportedly replied: “Caine, Razin Caine.”
Trump also claims Caine put on a signature “Make America Great Again” hat while they met in Iraq.
“‘I love you, sir. I think you’re great, sir. I’ll kill for you, sir,’” Trump said, quoting Caine.”

Ah yes, a white, MAGA supporting officer. That’s DEI at work, folks.

“Haha! The racists always confuse “white” with “competent”.
But it isn’t realy their fault, as they correlate so strongly.”

I’m shocked he was able to say all that with Trump’s c$ck so deep down his throat. But you keep on projecting and being you.

When USAID was shut down and investigated, it turned out to have been the funding mechanism for color revolutions. Purely coincidental, I’m sure, the left hasn’t been able to effectively organize mass protests/riots ever since.

The Wall Street Journal, can’t get any more Republican than that. But what do they say about this smoke-and-mirror pony trick that all the MAGAs are touting?

The Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency touts cuts of $55 billion in federal spending, often citing canceled DEI and climate contracts. However, a Wall Street Journal analysis of government contract data showed a much different picture: “Woke” cuts were a tiny fraction of the total, and many claims of savings were overstated. While DOGE hasn’t offered details about all of the stated savings, it has posted a list of more than 1,100 canceled contracts to its website. As of Friday, it said the savings from these contracts amounted to about $7 billion. 

More here.

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/elon-musk-doge-federal-savings-claims-783b9507

But what do they say about this smoke-and-mirror pony trick that all the MAGAs are touting?

Well, I should have added, “until they also get fired or their services like Medicare and Social Security get dropped. Then those MAGAs will be crying online why they got cut, when it should have been others. lol.

If the Trump-Musk team really wants to make a dent, they need to get rid of Social Security ($1.5 trillion), Medicare ($1 trillion), and Medicaid ($900 billion). That’s your $3.5 trillion savings right there. Weren’t they discussing the plan to deposit those supposed savings into their new “US Sovereign Wealth Fund” for the 13 billionaire’s club to use?
Project 2025, specifically even admitted it, that the real cuts can’t happen unless those three entitlements are cut.

This could have unintended consequences that could lead to solving the other MAGA issue – immigration. Nobody in their right mind neither legally nor illegally would want to move, live, and work in a truly Third World nation that the US is turning into.

US Treasuries are also in trouble, as Trump’s tariff wars crash the markets.

US needs to refinance $9.2 trillion of US debt that is maturing in 2025. That’s almost 25% of the total US debt, that’s maturing in one year. The US needs foreign countries like Japan, Canada, UK, EU, (former US allies now enemies and rivals), and even China to buy US debt to keep this game going.

But with the US pissing off all the countries, and with global economic collapse due to the US tariff wars, all these countries won’t buy the US treasuries. Even if they wanted to, they wouldn’t be able to buy the US debt because all the countries wouldn’t have enough US dollars anyway.

Even a sixth-grade child who could read a book would understand how the globally linked economies work. Except for the Trump-Musk administration, and half the country of 350 million people who don’t even have fifth-grade education.

You deserve a government that you deserve.

Liz, we can sit here all day and argue who is in more trouble, the US or Europe. Frankly, I think every country that is part of the global economic network is in trouble. No, your tariffs are not going to work, other than crash everyone’s economies, including yours.

Just get ready for the hyperinflation that your megalomaniacal leaders have caused.

Wall Street Journal expose about the fake savings by DOGE here:

https://archive.ph/LtTyC

How do you define the “left” chickenhead? Anyone that you don’t agree with?

Wall Street Journal is a leftist publication now??

You guys remind me of the brainwashed cultists. Even the Moonies are not this brainwashed.

“How do you define the “left” chickenhead? Anyone that you don’t agree with?”

No, disagreement is a symptom and not a cause.

The “left” is collectivist, wishes to redistribute wealth i have worked for, believes that big government needs to tell me what to do, hates religion unless it is Muslim, works against groups that are the most productive (e.g. cic white men and Asians), has very poor priorities on who it supports (e.g. George Floyd), believes in child trannies, pushes disruptive and destructive mass migration, coddles true criminals yet quickly attacks normal people defending themselves, talks about social programs but actually builds a large parasitic bureaucracy to take the majority of resources, hates transparency, pushes failed idiologies like communism (and eventually global warming), motivates by emotion rather than facts, attracts and empowers fúck-offs and misfits by giving them a sense of entitlement and then sending them off to hassle the productive classes, derives its power from disorder and conflict, claims such things as a true education is racist…

…this list can go on and on.

Bonus: a “leftist” and a liberal are close but not quite the same thing, just as a right winger and a conservative are not the same thing.

Korea Person/Man have nothing more to complain about no matter which side they are on.

If they are Chinese, they are already in bed with Russia.

Same if they are North Korean.

And, as America realized Russia has more to offer than the EU, that relationship grows closer.

And if they are Korean…

https://en.topcor.ru/57024-pervyj-poshel-juzhnaja-koreja-otmenjaet-sankcii-na-postavku-v-rossiju-medicinskogo-oborudovanija.html

TLDR: Korea will start exporting medical equipment to Russia (seemingly with America’s blessing) and other Korean companies like Samsung are positioning for what is coming.

Looks like Russia is back on the menu.

Thanks @Liz, VDH is always worth a read or a listen.

When it came out, anybody who thought the covid vaccine was Safe & Effective was truly too dumb to live. Those who wouldn’t shut up about how Safe & Effective it was were dumber than that… and many times more irritating.

This wasn’t because they had a firm medical opinion based on no evidence and hadn’t thought it through at all, only regergitating what the teevee told them. They could manufacture all sorts of fallacies to convince themselves of this and then claim I didn’t have a epidemiology degree and “just don’t understand the science.” But that’s only too dumb to go into public.

Too dumb to live was becasue of the solid and indisputable fact there simply hadn’t been enough time from its creation to its administration to make that statement… especially with the surety so many in media, government, and science, were making it.

That cannot be argued.

But, boy, did they try.

Mental gymnastics that made Mental Olympics history.

I completely lost my respect for people. Everyone is a complete fùcktard by default, and they have to prove otherwise through reasonable thinking. So many fail this requirement now that I am paying attention.

As predicted, it was not effective. Everyone eventually aught covid. And they need vaccines every six months for life to really reduce the chance of catching it again.

We have all known since grade school that “viruses mutate.” The adult version of this is smallpox is a complex DNA virus with a proofreading mechanism that reduces mutation, it only affects humans, and it infects deep tissues where vaccinated immune response is strong.

Covid is a sloppy rapidly-mutating RNA virus with animal reservoirs that affects the respiratory system… the exact type of virus that we can’t seem to make a vaccine for and EVERYBODY who does “understand the science” knew this immediately.

And so could non-scientists in 2020 with 15 minutes worth of study.

Scientists are also fùcktards, more interested in wasteful government grants than actual science… or maybe they are just responding to the corrupt government only funding their agenda. The whole system is infected with fùcktards.

That brings us to our next question… is it safe?

There are so many possible pathways to long-term disasters, the answer is statistically no.

But I “don’t understand the science,” so let’s discuss this in a decade when there can be no argument.

Maybe sooner.

Ha!

I never rant against “vaccines”.

I rant against vaccines that don’t vaccinate because they are too busy transferring wealth from government to Big Business with no concern with safety or effectiveness.

There are certain vaccines society MUST have because the danger is exceedingly low and the benefit is exceedingly high.

But somewhere along the way, government and industry strayed from doing cost-benefit calculations and now kids must take expensive vaccines for diseases that barely exist.

This peaked with the covid vaccine that was very expensive, didn’t acccomplish much, and is likely dangerous in the long term to a percentage of the population that got little-to-no benefit from it.

That is worth ranting about.