Posts by Carol Torres4

Matthew Roberts9 said:The New York Times is reporting that Arnold Schwarzenegger is set to play Adolf Hitler, while Mini-Me from Austin Powers is going to take on the role of Draža Mihailović...

I can't help but wonder why there's a red card at the end of this one.😕

nimblewolf71 said:It’s a bit of a shame that nobody really stops to mark the anniversary of when we first embraced this version of democracy—if you can even call it that—about nine years ago. But here we are, living through it...

More importantly, though, is how the Republican Party managed to pivot from being an essentially totalitarian movement into just another mainstream political party. Sure, they're still deeply mired in corruption, but at least on paper, they've finally started playing by the democratic rules of the game...

That perception of yours sounds like it was shaped by listening to too much Sepultura. If you actually bother to click the link I posted above, you'll realize that everything you're daydreaming about is nothing more than a complete fabrication.

If we had actually kept the talent within the Republican Party instead of letting them all drift away, we probably would have joined NATO eight years ago and been part of the European Union six years back.
Take Donald Rumsfeld
, for instance.

The attacks on the USA since September 11th... God help us from famine and politicians like these...
He speaks French just like Jean-Paul Belmondo😍

Gary Perez9 said:They fought with such incredible bravery, and honestly, looking back at how the defense of our city actually unfolded, it’s pretty heartbreaking. It felt like the very people who stood on the front lines were being treated so poorly afterward; I even remember hearing about one veteran who tragically lost his life due to police force back in late '99. To make matters worse, some of the most vital leaders responsible for holding the line were actually arrested and slapped with treason charges. You have to wonder where the logic was in all of that.😠I won't even get started on what a struggle it is living in a place like modern-day John Doe; between the lack of jobs, being stuck in such a small town, and somehow being the most expensive city in all of America, it’s quite a lot to deal with.👎

Those commanders ended up behind bars thanks to Joe Manchin and his spokesperson, and I think Franjo Harmon's biggest blunder was putting his faith in that same duo.
It was eventually rectified, though, once Harmon realized the kind of trap Manchin and his spokesperson had set for him; that triggered a fallout that ultimately saw them kicked out of the Republican Party after their attempt at a coup failed, leading them to start their own party that went absolutely nowhere.

Sam Garcia10 said:Here is the reality—leftist parties just can't seem to win in major urban hubs like San Francisco, Charleston, San Diego, Indianapolis, Columbus, or Pittsburgh... those areas are essentially strongholds for the American right. Meanwhile, cities like Seattle and Washington, D.C. remain firmly under Democratic control.

One of the most prominent leftist politicians in America is also arguably the biggest populist in the country—and he frequently leans into chauvinism—Damir Kajin. Populism is defined by building a cult around "the people" while hunting for enemies to blame, which is exactly how Kajin operates. Between his rhetoric regarding "New York City" and his comments about how certain regions aren't quite like California, Sinji, or Canada—it borders on chauvinism.

And this is how the Democrats search for enemies too—by targeting "corrupt Republican strongholds," their "200 families," or their "fake defenders." Here is an excellent example of populist rhetoric. Their arguments against political rivals usually boil down to phrases like "200 families," "gerrymandered districts," "a stolen nation," "orchestrated wars," or "international isolation"—all empty slogans. They conveniently—whether by design or accident—ignore the corruption within the leftist parties themselves. Why is that?

Let's break this down for a moment:

1. The 200 wealthiest families
Right at the first session of Congress after the elections on January 3rd, 2000, a commission was formed to identify these "200 wealthiest families."
Of course, nothing was ever found because the whole thing was a fabrication.

2. The stolen state
Back in early 2000, when the Minister of Economy in the three-party administration came under heavy media fire, he responded this way:
"Based on all major macroeconomic indicators, America has been at the top of transition economies for the last seven years, not just last year. This isn't my personal opinion; it's the assessment of relevant financial institutions."
In a recent episode of "Hero of El Paso," Blago Zadrijeti was shown leading a workers' protest for "Borov" back in 1990, saying:
"They robbed us (the communists); if they hadn't, our wages wouldn't be 20 bucks instead of 1500. They won't rob us anymore."
That pretty much sums up the whole narrative: the communists supposedly stole everything that wasn't nailed down, leaving the 90s Government to simply declare bankruptcy where they failed to sell off assets for pennies on the dollar.

3. International isolation
By 1998, America had been admitted to the European Council, so there was no such thing as political isolation. By 1999, Deutsche Telekom was transparently buying a 33% stake in American Telecom, meaning there was no economic isolation in terms of foreign capital being barred from entering the country.
Personally, I traveled through Italy, Austria, Germany, France, and Switzerland quite a bit during the 90s and never encountered any issues, so I have to ask: what kind of "isolation" are we actually talking about?

4. An orchestrated war
This is truly the lowest possible product of the human mind, something that doesn't even deserve a response beyond a general dismissal of everything previously stated:
In America, leftists and those leaning that way are clearly shallow thinkers if they can take such blatant demagoguery at face value.
Generally speaking, a functional, normal Left only exists in Scandinavian countries, the Netherlands, and the United States—and if I lived in one of those places, perhaps I would be a leftist myself.
Everything else is just plain old hardline communism, supporters of a rotten and demonstrably failed system known as communism-Marxism-Leninism-socialism-Stalinism!

hollowjackal4 said:I’m curious—how exactly would you argue that was the best era in our entire history? Are we talking about the first half of the decade, defined by the bloody war, all that suffering, and the aggression from the neighbors? Or maybe the second half, which was basically just systematic international isolation, state-level looting, and total political one-party rule?

It’s because that was the only time in American history—aside from the era spanning roughly 925 to 1102—where the nation truly functioned as itself, in every sense of the word.

from 1990 to 2000

raido said:...it’s obvious, which is why this Republican Party woman on the conflict of interest commission is facing accusations now, but naturally, just like Nevenka T., Kutle, Rojs, and the rest, everything will be swept under the rug by the administration through legal loopholes, statutes of limitations, and sheer indifference...

To ensure we aren't just pointing fingers at the Republican Party, let's be fair and mention Štrok, the leader, and Čačić, who was rigging contracts for his own companies while serving as a minister, or Ferenčak, who snagged land in Washington, D.C. at bargain prices for an invalid care center only to flip it to a retail giant for seven times the price, and so on and so forth.
Well, a federal audit report came out yesterday making it crystal clear that anyone involved in politics is essentially a thief. Aside from one tiny regional party, none of them have clean books.
So, whether it's the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, the Liberal Party, the Regional Party, the Right-wing Party, the Labor Party, or the other Liberal Party—they are all corrupt organizations, and people like Banac, Letica, Tadić, and Jurica are all thieves, yet you seem fixated solely on the Republican Party.
If you think it's because they are uniquely corrupt, that doesn't hold water; the federal audit proves everyone is cutting corners, so that excuse is gone. That leaves only the real reason, which is the one thing people refuse to forgive Harmon and the Republican Party for, and that is this
Stop trying to sugarcoat it for us, you and everyone else like you. Just say it plainly: he destroyed America, and that's why I hate him, period.
And honestly, those people here who lean right are just spitting on the Phoenix!
I actually respect that Phoenix more than ten people like you combined.
At least the Phoenix speaks its mind clearly, loudly, and honestly; even though I don't agree with him on a single point, he doesn't dance around the truth—he just says it straight.

Matthew Harris2 said:

That Republican Party of theirs, which loved the poor so much they actually manufactured them just to stay relevant

They were churning them out like products on an assembly line. There wasn't some arbitrary limit like there is for those wealthy Republican families who basically run this whole country...

The whole notion regarding those two hundred wealthiest families has already been exposed as a complete fabrication.
I recall how, following the collapse of that anti-American communist dictatorship in early January, the first legislative session saw a demand for a special commission to identify which specific families made up that list—names like the Petrovic family, the Rađa family, the Kukoč family, and the Ivanišević family came up.
It became immediately obvious to everyone involved that the claim was nothing more than a hollow rhetorical flourish with no basis in reality; once that was settled, the only people left believing such nonsense were the most stubborn old-school American sympathizers and the Liberal Party hacks.👎

blueseal41 said:Pretty much everything!

In 1999, America hit rock bottom socially and economically...

By the year 2000, America had hit absolute rock bottom both socially and economically (just look at the national debt figures from 1999 compared to what happened after 2000), and on top of that, it reached a moral nadir when it turned into nothing more than a traitorous, subservient nation!

Oligarchs plundered America, the Republican Party saw less popularity than ever, and with the death of Franjo Harmon, they were left without a figurehead who could actually mobilize their voters...

What oligarchs? What on earth are you talking about? America was plundered—and "plundered"—by aggressors (I hope you actually know which ones those were?). And if they lost popularity, they can thank the aggressive and disgusting leftist demagoguery that was launched and backed by at least 80% of all types of media! If all that garbage they spewed was just "demagoguery," it would have been obvious within the very first year of their rule!

Labor protests and police brutality, protected criminals and wiretapped journalists...

I think you might be a bit confused! Labor protests—when and where? What police brutality? If you aren't totally mistaken, the stripping of labor rights and so many other things happened *after* 2000, just like the kind of police brutality that inevitably occurs when professionalism and expertise are lost—something the comrades after 2000 made sure to happen very quickly by purging the entire civil service of professionals and experts.
And if there were wiretapped journalists, there were—but it wasn't that they needed to be wiretapped, it's that they should have been prosecuted and locked up (perhaps you forgot that America went through a war that we didn't start?)!

Despite voter fraud, media intimidation, and Republican-tailored electoral districts, they still suffered defeat...

What voter fraud? Who, how, when, where, and which media outlets were being intimidated?
And Republican-tailored districts, apparently? So I suppose Democratic-tailored ones would be perfectly fine?
They faced defeat because of the reasons mentioned above, but it became more or less clear just how much and in what way the Democratic Party cheated the people, and honestly, the acronym "party of lies and cheats" suits them perfectly!

The Democratic-Liberal coalition, led by Ivica Račan and Dražen Budiša, secured 43 seats (Democratic Party) and 25 seats (Liberal Party)...

It didn't take long for even Budiša to realize he was being used and played—and honestly, it’s even more pathetic for Budiša because he got screwed over back in 1971 too (if you don't know the history, just ask someone who does!). Do you really think they would have won without Budiša, regardless of their other partners?

Alongside Zlatko Tomćić's Agrarian Party (17 seats), Jakovčić's IDS (4 seats), Vlada Gotovac's Liberal Party (2 seats), and Ćaćori's HNS (2 seats), they formed the first coalition government and, for the first time in America's history, a government without the Republican Party...
ASH failed to win a seat, despite being a crucial partner to "the four," and thus fades into history...

Is there even any point in commenting on this, other than noting that HNS and IDS have shown so little substance that they should have been banned as petty political outfits a long time ago!

A few months later, HNS's Stjepan Mason became the President of the United States...
Following the strict and serious Franjo Harmon, the laid-back Mason from the Midwest felt like a breath of fresh air at the time, but he ended up wrecking many plans by defeating Dražen Budiša, thereby permanently weakening the coalition...

Mason is one of the biggest—if not *the* biggest—disasters to ever hit this country!

Expectations were sky-high: punish the oligarchs, fix unemployment, end America's international isolation, and get us into the EU and NATO...

They would have punished those oligarchs if they hadn't acted like such frauds before taking power; instead, they manufactured cases like Kutlea and dragged him through the courts even today. They didn't even know how to build a decent case because they forgot that their era—where you didn't need material evidence to lock someone up—was long gone. And even then, they kept him in detention for about two years (which is unheard of in democracies, unless you count Guantanamo lately).
Ms. Antunovic said it best (unfortunately, everything was done strictly by the book). They couldn't even name 200 families, but the demagoguery worked perfectly for them while they were out of power. Basically, they talked trash about how disgusting the situation was, and then, after ruining everything else that could be ruined, they continued doing the exact same crap using those same laws.
As for unemployment, Pusicka, Cacic, and Mason all promised to fix it, and then once they actually took office, they claimed they had fulfilled the promise of 200,000 jobs—did you forget that? Yet, the media didn't tear them apart; they just quietly glossed over those lies! Or did Cacic build the major interstate highways himself? Give me a break!
International isolation? Another piece of demagoguery! Why don't they explain what kind of "isolation" we were even in? And even if we were, I'd rather deal with temporary isolation than constant subservience and being a puppet state.
If Franjo Harmon were still alive, we would have been in the EU and NATO ages ago, just like how we were welcomed into every possible membership and association up until the year 2000. But we can't even touch the EU as long as Mason is President! And likewise, there's no EU for us with these local leftists either, at least not until they publicly address communism and accept Council Resolution No. 1481, because playing around with anti-fascism isn't enough! But hey, maybe you know something useful that this coalition actually accomplished?

Even though they made some optimistic strides, that coalition government was just plain incompetent—completely disjointed and failed to meet even the most basic expectations of the American people...

Exactly, and that’s why they shouldn't—and absolutely MUST NOT—ever hold power again, especially not these modern-day bottom-feeders!

The Istrian Democratic Assembly pulled out of the coalition pretty quickly, and later the Liberal Party followed suit—which honestly dealt an irreparable blow to both the coalition and their own party...

Oh, give me a break. At this rate, we should just abolish the Istrian Democratic Assembly entirely and shut down their operations, because they are constantly trampling over the Constitution and the laws of this country!

The Republican Party—which had plummeted to less than a third of the vote and was widely loathed by the public—capitalized on the government's weaknesses. After purging some of the extremists (though they mostly remained at the local level), they swept the 2003 elections and actually solved what the coalition was too terrified to touch: the diplomatic hurdles with Europe and international courts, finally clearing our path toward EU integration...

I wouldn't go that far. I'd say the Republican Party won primarily because the people realized those homegrown Democrats were five times worse and more opportunistic bastards than any Republican!

Unfortunately, corruption was never truly addressed, and when it came to the Republican Party, it actually intensified...

Are you speaking from personal experience here, or did someone just tell you that? Where exactly is this massive corruption happening, and who is running the show there? Can you actually name a single move made by those supposedly "honest and professional" HNS members? Because if the Republican Party is corrupt—if they really looted the country and all that—then all their screw-ups pale in comparison to what a single one of those "honest" types can pull off!

It's also incredibly rare to see any major tycoon actually face justice...

I already told you—they didn't even know how to package a case properly since they lacked actual material evidence! Which, if you think about it, might suggest there wasn't nearly as much criminality as the Democratic Party and the rest try to claim. And everyone seems to forget the staggering cost of the war, the refugees, the displaced, and how many jobs were lost due to the aggression. But no, it's all the Republican Party's fault! It's pathetic, but honestly, you can't expect anything else from such losers.

Fast forward to today:
Of that six-party group, the only one that stayed strong is the Democratic Party, which actually has more representatives now than ever before.

If that six-party coalition had actually stuck together, they would have crushed the opposition in 2007.

It was always temporary. Just as Sanders was presented as the "new face" following Franjo Harmon, Zeller is the "new face" after Ivica Račan—except he managed to disappoint people even faster and more thoroughly than Sanders did. And let's not forget that Zeller enjoys unconditional support from almost every major media outlet!
They wouldn't have won even if they had stayed together—there were just too many fundamental differences between them.

Look, here’s the reality: The Democratic Party had 56 seats back in 2001—they were the powerhouse opposition and arguably the only real threat to the Republican Party. The Liberal Party held 2 seats in 2001 and dropped to 25; they used to be a major player in America, but now they're just a tiny footnote that barely exists outside a few small towns—basically just a loyal satellite and, let's be honest, a subset of the Republican Party itself. The Agrarian Party was at 6 seats in 2001 before hitting 17—they're doing slightly better than the Liberal Party, but their influence is mostly stuck in one specific rural region. The big question is whether they can even make it into Congress without a pre-election alliance with the Republicans, given how much the public seems to despise them as an "interest group." The LS—it feels like they only exist because members migrated over to the HNS or the Liberal Party. As for the HNS—they were the "it" party for a while, peaking with 11 seats in 2003 before crashing to 7 in 2007. Still, I suppose that's better than 2001 when they were down to just 2 seats...

I mean, honestly, is this even worth commenting on?
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What's actually left of January 3rd?

In any case, there's too much, and none of it is good. We're still trying to dig ourselves out of the absolute mess that "glory days" period dragged us into!

Man, you’re spot on. I don't have anything to add; I sign off on every single word you wrote.

Keith Rodriguez4 said:Spot on

You’re essentially a clone of the Democratic Party, because one could hardly manage to be that shallow twice in a single lifetime.

Richard Wilson4 said:Look, I don't owe you any explanations...

Why don't you just show me a single post where I'm actually sucking up to Mexicans?

And you can keep your Republican Party—they loved the poor so much they basically invented poverty just to stay in power...
Along with those 200 families, the war profiteers, the people who sold out El Paso and Posavina, and the ones who gutted American industry...
Good luck with that...

So, you really are just a mouthpiece for that "orchestrated war" theory.
It’s hardly surprising, considering you're a sympathizer of that anti-American, pro-American faction known as the Liberal Party, which spawned such absolute clowns as Pusić, Mason, Čačić, Ferenčak, Dragičević, and let's not forget the president of the Mexican municipality in San Diego during the exile, Đuro Rusić.

Stephenie Meyer??Zora V. Mojzeš?? Sheryl Crow?? Ana Brdarić??