This is a post like any other post. Except for the stuff that's different. But it's not that different so it's basically the same. Look, why are you asking me? Just read it fer cryin' out loud! Look, I'm not talking to you anymore. You're boring.

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□ [“Anti-Trump Group Planning to Protest Nationwide Over Easter Weekend"]

They're trying to make these things a weekly event.  At least this time they finally realized that it looks better if they don't do it in the middle of a work-day.  But it's Easter weekend, so that's probably the excuse.  I get the impression this is more like a tidal wave.  It may look big and ferocious but will just splash to pieces when it finally hits.

Other than the elites, these people have no real authority and can't do anything relevant.  A few of them commit some crimes, otherwise they're just posting on the internet about what a big resistance movement this is.  I actually try to look into this stuff and didn't realize it had already happened today, that's not even Easter.  What a jip!

□ [“San Francisco Drag Group Hosts Trans Easter Event for Kids with 'Hunky Jesus, Foxy Mary' Contest"]

This sort of thing is more their speed.  They all come from the same place and think this will win everybody over.  Obviously the organizers get paid to do this, although they're probably a bit nervous now that USAID isn't there for them.  But this is really just a message for the rest of us, that we voted to get rid of these people.  They'll continue to delude themselves and will just keep going, but there must be an endpoint where even they don't think it's worth it.

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□ [“Kamala Harris to Host DNC Fundraiser With Tickets Starting at $25,000"]

Probably to give a speech about how to appeal to poor people.  But nobody's going to ask about that, we'll just have to wait until they're told.  I wonder if this has to do with her campaign's debt, which we haven't heard about for months.  The DNC needs to find a way to fix that problem and hide it from everybody else.  Last December, some of them were complaining about how many people were making money off of donations to the Harris campaign.  Oprah alone got $2.5 million, Al Sharpton got $500,000.  They need an accounting for this while not admitting that it's an accounting.

I also suspect that at least some of the party thinks she still has a chance at doing something in the future, so they want to push her now.  This may be similar to why Biden is suddenly trying to get out there too, although he obviously has no chance of getting any further.  Neither does she, but the party needs to work that out amongst their leaders.  At least they don't have to go through a primary.

The party is stuck.  She's clearly incompetent but they spent all this time pretending she isn't and they haven't figured out how to do a 180 yet.  Meanwhile her real supporters feel ripped off by the party trying to ditch her.  Bernie, AOC, Buttigieg, maybe even Hillary see a chance to grab power for themselves but need to prove they can actually compete.  And this is supposed to beat Trump somehow?

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□ [“Russia Declares Easter Truce for ‘Humanitarian Reasons’, Orders Troops To Be Ready for ‘Any Violations or Provocations’ by Ukraine"]

Nothing about this is coming from Ukraine.  Putin just announces a truce for Easter, although he does mention that Russian troops need to be ready in case Ukraine tries something.  But he expects they'll follow his example.

Has this ever been done in any war?  The US had some limitations on holidays in Iraq but that's about the only precedent I can think of.  There are wars where both sides agree to a truce, particularly around a holiday, but this is just a declaration.  Perhaps this is a move to see if any Ukrainians have respect for Easter, their rulers certainly don't.

It's also trying to show the US that peace is possible.  Our diplomats have made a threat that you'd very much expect from Trump, that they'll just walk away from negotiations if they don't get a deal within a few days.  I rather like the point they make, they want the war to end but it's not *our* war.  The US has other priorities.  The left will disagree with that but they're safe at home, yammering about how oppressed they are.

At the peace talks, there's discussions about Ukraine mineral rights and Russia might just be given the Crimea.  Meanwhile Denmark says they're preparing to send in troops and drones.  Russia has already said that will make Denmark a target.  More decisions made by people who stay a long way away from the conflict.  They're not going to learn until it actually hits them directly.

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□ [“White Washington State University Teacher Fired for Beating Indian Student Wearing MAGA Cap"]

I guess you and your white friends can't just go beat up non-white people in bars for wearing something you don't like.  [note to self:  call the boys about reworking our plans for tonight.]  But no Democrat speaks out and criticizes this.  They are all supportive of violence and it's just a question of how many actually have the guts to get started.

□ [“Tim Walz Minnesota Administration Employee Arrested For Keying a Tesla While Walking the Dog"]

Another example.  You can argue that they're all just taking inspiration from their leaders - Walz in this case - or that that they're all just the kind of people who really want to get violent when they don't like something.  Notice that we don't have Trump supporters doing to any of these people what they're doing and consistently getting away with.  Why do you suppose that is?  This just shows that the left projects their own violent intent on their opponents.  Individually it may just be beating your wife, but collectively, you can form political parties like Germany, Russia, China and North Korea are used to.

Political scientists must have worked this practice out long-ago.  The left has certainly made use of it for decades, if not centuries.  But it's looking like the Trump administration's goal is to demonstrate how this works to everybody else.  It's still not clear, but this does seem to be in more identifiable patterns and behaviors.  Of course it's also something our ancestors solved on their own, which is how civilization was built in the first place.  It's the sort of thing parents do to teach their little boys and girls to be decent men and women.  They don't do that anymore, which is a good summary of the problems we're facing now.

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