trump bombs a quincienera

Wow. Jimmy Kimmel is going to really let him have it tonight.

“The government would advance 75% of the total sum to the ____________ and then the __________ would repay the government, plus interest, over forty-nine years”

A) College, Student
B) Landlord, Serf

Pick the correct answer.

I think we’re talking about a few slightly different things so it feels like there’s a dissonance when there isn’t.

In the most broad sense of history and theory, yes, leftists have and will always be targeted by capital. Trump targeting leftists in that sense, is not new. In the 90s there was this shift to focus on domestic terrorism in the wake of the OK bombing. The right didn’t like this and made it their mission to eventually dismantle it. 9/11 brought a refocus to foreign terrorism, which gave the perfect excuse to start shuttling domestic terror programs. During both of these times, feds could and would go after leftists if they were a threat. They never stopped going after leftists, it’s just leftists weren’t the primary target. Each time this shift of focus happens, there is an escalation because the counter measures and punishments ramp up in parallel. To use the previous examples, the shift from Feds tracking and going after right wing cults in the 90s to Islam in the 00s is accompanied by the PATRIOT act. These increases in surveillance and enforcement make it harder for everyone and also apply to leftists.

During Obama’s terms, there was a return to focus on right wing domestic terrorism due to the Tea Party and other big right wing donors pushing it. Obama being Obama also wanted to maintain the focus on foreign terrorism because those same right wingers were calling him a “Muslamic” terrorist. Coincidentally the domestic surveillance program also blows up with new technologies created by companies that are now (in 2025) the very center of our economy. At that point we have massive domestic surveillance so good that they officially shut down COINTELPRO and go all-in. Once more, leftists are still there and are victim to all this, but they are not a main concern.

Once Trump got in, there is a refocus on the left. All the adult-in-the-room feds didn’t really like it because Trump being Trump didn’t finesse it with all the aplomb of Obama and Clinton and without the institutional expertise of the Bush family. He’s just a guy saying it because he’s a Cold War boomer without having actually had a hand in intelligence like people in the Bush Admin. But eventually, people got on board with this refocus enough to set the stage for Trump II.

Biden did nothing except try to whiplash it on Jan 6. He did it in a way that just so happened to also apply to leftists.

Now we’re here in Trump II and seeing the work laid out in Trump I coming to fruition. The focus seems to be domestic leftist terrorism only. Don’t focus on right-wing terrorism at all (which is why right wingers keep doing shootings). Also, to some extent, back off of foreign terrorism despite it being one of the big campaign promises. Probably because it’s harder to see and for Americans to care when it’s happening overseas. The hogs get a bigger thrill out of watching skirmishes break out in the big lawless cities. The escalation is making all the previous scary stuff public and being like “and that’s a good thing” to every norm or violation of rights. The refocus to leftists and then making everyone who says boo a leftist.

This isn’t unprecedented. We’re essentially returning to the J Edgar Hoover days of the FBI where leftists and anti-capitalists were a prime concern. The difference is that we had labor riots, a strong civil rights movement, etc during that time. We do not have those things now. So who is the reanimated corpse of Hoover going after? Anyone. The refocus on leftist domestic terrorists doesn’t mean anything because there are no leftist domestic terrorists. Capital won, got it’s way, and now they need a domestic enemy to protect the regime. To some extent, having a healthy leftist insurgency in the US is load-bearing for empire. That kind of thing props up a lot of jobs and laws required to be this nakedly corrupt. Without it, you start losing ground. This is why I think they’re going to pull back more on foreign policy. They’re going to sacrifice one pillar to bolster another.

They’re going to make soldiers get on various health supplement grifts, contract a bunch of manliness alpha camp counselor grifts, and then issue them Dude Wipes and other male-branded toiletries. Also if you get razor bumps you’re not allowed in the military so

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/06/27/new-army-shaving-policy-will-allow-soldiers-skin-condition-affects-mostly-black-men-be-kicked-out.html

Engraving “respect the dignity of others” on a bullet

If I had to do a takesmith moment, maybe they finally have an operating model of a EMP device? It’s one of those things conservatives have been shadowboxing that for years, which means they’ve been working on it. It was one of the fabled weapons from the dubya years and a big part of apocalypse fantasy under Obama. I could see them doing a big commercial for it, a live demonstration (just like my star wars!). Of course it would probably be half-assed so they would follow up with analog carpet-bombing of civilian infrastructure. Then “we have a nuke without the nuke” discourse will carry everyone pretty far over the next decade.

This is going to come off really crabby, and I’m sorry for that, but you being frustrated with a couple of people is not a problem with site culture. Both you and OP are not actually communicating well or taking care of this in a productive way. The person you’re frustrated with don’t even know this thread is about them. You have experience with communicating to strangers and talking to people with differing views at protests. Apply that here. The opportunity was when it happened, not 4 days later.

If Hexbear has a culture problem it’s poor communication and a seeping anticipation that the person you argue with is a latent fash.

I went into your history. You got into an argument with one poster about whether or not it was worth it to convert libs at the event. By argument I mean one reply. That’s the ultraleft position in our community?

I don’t know who you’re replying to so the impact of this post is lost on me. If someone on Hexbear said that Walmart is paying people to show up to protests then you should have called them out in the thread where they said it. Making a new post to say that all hexbears believe that is odd. Your whole post is like “Listen up here you fucking cracker reactionaries, I’m gonna set you strait and let you know that we need to build popular support before we can have a revolution!” Like who is disagreeing? This is premium Hexbear online posting. I don’t know why we’re kidding ourselves thinking this is some kind of grass-touching anthem.

What do you mean by believe?

God could you imagine Trump’s version of 9/11.

Ride for Immortan Trump and you shall ride greasy and gold.

When Marxists don’t get their way:

The satanic panic MAGA people lost their cred when Trump held the glowing orb of globalism in a dark ritual.

Go talk to Jimmy the Fish down at the docks. He has a few jobs that need takin’ care of.

Reality barrier: 45%

It’s almost like random redditors backed by a non-profit suck at organizing. They don’t know who is at their protest. They don’t know how many people there are on their side. They don’t know who is running security, they probably never considered having organized security. They just let randos show up and stake over marshaling duties.

How did that work out for you?

Stalin killed God. It was kind of a big deal actually.