re: People that blackpill & Critical America Theory

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To say people offer no solutions is just plain out bullshite. The solution is to reduce the size of government, reduce government spending, stop getting involved as the worlds police with hundreds of bases around the world. Stop illegal immigration, get a secure border, get secure elections and bring back meritocracy

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That is, it would look for everything America isn't doing perfectly according to some ideal standard that doesn't exist, probably cannot exist, and cannot even be articulated and "make those problematics visible" in the hopes of changing the system.

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So MAGA?

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Exactly. Dave Smith snapped over this war. I don't think Tucker is part of some op to break MAGA, although he might be spouting Qatar talking points for cash. Most of these people turned in the last month. Candace is the only one I think is a manufactured wedge.

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The OP doesn't even understand what "black pill" means.

It's a retarded mess meant only to justify MAGA hypocrisy while literally including MAGA in it's definition of "Critical America Theory."

The author not only misunderstands the terms he uses but also the population he cites. Tucker is a grifter. Candace is a grifter. Dave Smith is part of a coalition that joined to support Trump in 2024. Is the author truly ignorant that these political coalitions can change? The irony is that he's likely engaging in the same dishonest content creation that Tucker is a d making just as stupid if points while pretending to be a big brain.

The lowest form of being clever.

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Patently false. Trump has called for revenge against the Iranian regime since 1980. He called the Iran Deal “horrible” in 2015. He said during the 2024 campaign that Iran would never be allowed to have nukes.

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Two things can be true at the same time.

He did in fact campaign as the President of peace. He criticized the ME military actions of the early 21st century. Talked long about how they hurt our economy.

He also does not want Iran to have nukes. He has said that many times.

TUSA can keep Iran from having nukes without a drawn out military campaign.

Trump has achieved his goals in Iran already. To achieve anything else would require massive troops in country. That would end in a quagmire.

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What we get out of it is no Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthis.

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Thankfully after this war, I won't have to worry about these scoundrels checking my crab traps in Point Aux Chenes like they were before the war.

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That is, it would look for everything America isn't doing perfectly according to some ideal standard that doesn't exist

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Conservatives have a big problem with this.

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Then why did he say that Iran couldn't have a nuke in his candidate announcement speech in 2015?

That's not a guy saying, "I won't attack Iran." You people only hear what you want to hear.

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"I'm the only president in 84 years not to start a war"

Can we judge a man by his words and actions?

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Reject Critical America Theory. Love your country. It's great, and it's worth it.

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The problem with this analysis is that it conflates criticism of neoconservative policy with disloyalty. Opposition to a sprawling military empire is not only legitimate — it is deeply consistent with the founding principles of the United States.

The founders themselves were skeptical of entangling alliances and were opposed to concentrated war-making powers in the executive branch. Interventionist policies dressed up as moral imperatives are nothing new; only the labels change.

Neoconservatism itself is effectively a progressive ideology in disguise — warmed-over Wilsonianism. Critiquing this ideology does not make one anti-American: it is, in fact, an exercise in holding America to the ideals it was founded upon.

Trying to pass off any MAGA opposition to yet another Middle Eastern war as just the ramblings of disgruntled podcasters or leftist operatives is nothing short of a full-throttled gaslighting campaign. And any “conservative” who attempts such a ploy only does so at the expense of their own credibility.

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The problem with this analysis is that it conflates criticism of neoconservative policy with disloyalty.

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That's what strong in-group identification requires.

The group comes above everything, including rationality and truth. Any behavior that may threaten the group, regardless of its veracity, will be met with threats of ostracization from the group (which makes you the enemy). This is how cults and authoritarian regimes work.

I declare gon33 the winner of this thread.