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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: tp4tissue on Tue, 09 August 2022, 18:43:50
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Think it'gone wurk ? o' he actually tefl0n.
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It's time for the Republican Party to move on, and from what I have read they are more than ready.
But for now, they will have to wail and moan hard enough and loud enough to convince "the core" that they still care about that fat toad and his delusions.
There is no doubt that he did the crime, but to your question as to whether he will do the time, probably not. But he is pretty well ruined, and presumably his vile spawn also.
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The FBI would never have went in if they did not have very good evidence against him, unless the entire thing was orchestrated to show he had nothing to hide and signal all his friends, which Trump did via Twitter as it was happening (mentioning the specific places they looked, and what they seized.)
So this is either good news they have something solid against him, or a smokescreen to hide further corruption. Neither would surprise me in the slightest.
My faith in my country to do what is right is zero.
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My faith in my country to do what is right is zero.
Cynicism is precisely what put us where we are today.
Even when you don't think either side is perfect, or even close, *IT IS IMPERATIVE* that you always give your full support to the lesser of 2 evils.
If you did not invest your vote in Hillary Clinton in 2016, then you are directly to blame for putting this country where it is today.
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I've been told that the alternatives to Trump are mostly hardcore conservatives. Are they better or worse than Trump?
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Are they better or worse than Trump?
There is a saying that Trump was the flower, not the root.
The Radical Right has been diligently at work and highly focused on its agenda for over 4 decades, an agenda to consolidate the wealth and power of the ultra-wealthy.
"Nationalism" in the face of an ever-shrinking and interconnected world? "Small government" in a time of global warming and pandemics?
Nobody in his right mind would support such concepts, so it was necessary to divorce millions of people from their right minds. That requires control of mass media ....
Trump was very effective in ripping apart the fabric of our society, but he was extremely stupid and incompetent and behaved like a rabid dog.
The new crop of candidates are much more intelligent and competent so they will be more effective at accomplishing their goals, but at least they are not insane.
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not insane - just evil
and they hate America just like their puppet masters tell them to
Search warrants are not matters of public record, but the person being searched does receive a copy of the warrant. If Drumpf thought that he was being persecuted unfairly, he could easily release the warrant (or the first page summary) and suggest that a search was not justified. There would be something tangible to see and discuss out in the open.
It now seems to be becoming clear that the documents (especially the ones in the safe) were classified and top secret, and that he was selling them off for his own profit.
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Meal Team 6 rdy for dooty.
The education has to improve in this country, even if it's about maintaining a blue collar labor class, we can't have'um THISs dumb.
He posted the following on Truth Social, a drumph social media platform.
/He died, they killed him, deep state br0
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Meal Team 6 rdy for dooty.
The education has to improve in this country, even if it's about maintaining a blue collar labor class, we can't have'um THISs dumb.
He posted the following on Truth Social, a drumph social media platform.
/He died, they killed him, deep state br0
(Attachment Link)
What on Earth?! Oo
I'm assuming this person is now in custody and awaiting trial for conspiracy to commit murder, terrorism and treason?
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What on Earth?! Oo
I'm assuming this person is now in custody and awaiting trial for conspiracy to commit murder, terrorism and treason?
No, he shot at the fbi/police, they shot back, he ded.
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I'm assuming this person is now in custody and awaiting trial for conspiracy to commit murder, terrorism and treason?
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dun' really understand what's happening, are they indicting him or no ?
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Yes, but Garland knows that he must have an absolutely immaculate, ironclad, airtight case because it will be attacked from all angles.
And, I fear that the murder dogs will start shooting judges and witnesses as the heat increases.
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I don't get this whole hunter biden's laptop thing.
Like, what could be possibly on there, that they'd "THINK" would justify reversing all the problems caused by drumph ?
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what could be possibly on there
But But Behghazi !
Hillary's emails !
"Lock Her Up!" - for possibly not properly safeguarding proprietary government information - they still talk about those things. And you can be sure that if Hillary's emails were not completely and permanently deleted, and somebody would have found anything of value there, it would have been plastered all over the media.
If there was any "low-hanging" fruit the crazies would be going for that, trivial fringe stuff from the distant past is all they have ....
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-having-48-empty-classified-folders-mar-lago-raises-suspicion-1739520 (https://www.newsweek.com/trump-having-48-empty-classified-folders-mar-lago-raises-suspicion-1739520)
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Herr Drumpf is getting his referee to shuffle through the documents (presumably to separate the tax-evasion papers from the military secrets).
To lighten up the thread a bit, here is Michael Cohen's observation from his 2020 book Disloyal :
" Checking into the Vegas Trump Tower, I was summoned up to his suite to discuss the day’s events. Trump was in his underwear, white Hanes briefs, and a white short–sleeved undershirt, watching cable news on television. He barely seemed to register that it was unusual for a grown man to be in a state of undress in front of an employee, but there it was.
On this occasion, Trump was fresh from the shower and hadn’t done his hair yet, as it was still air–drying. When his hair wasn’t done, his strands of dyed–golden hair reached below his shoulders along the right side of his head and on the back, like a balding Allman Brother or strung out old ‘60s hippie.
I called his plane Hair Force One for good reason. Trump doesn’t have a simple comb–over, as it would appear. The operation was much more involved than a simple throw–over of what was left of his hair: the 3–step procedure required a flop up of the hair from the back of the head, followed by the flip of the resulting over–hang on his face back on his pate, and then the flap of his combover on the right side, providing 3 layers of thinly disguised balding–male insecurity. The concoction was held in place by a fog of TREsemme TRES Two, not a high–end salon product. Flip, flop, flap, and there was the most famous combover in the world.
The real reason for the extravagant and obvious overcompensation for his baldness was vanity, and the desire to appear younger and more vigorous than he was. But there was another unknown reason: he was hiding unsightly scars from a failed hair-implant operation in the 1980s."
– referring to preparation for the 2103 Miss Universe announcement
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quote B1den speech: .....Politics as a mediation of our differences.
quote Drvmph speech: ......a dirty dirty dirty sweatsuit... !!!
There is a pretty clear separation of audience here. Someone who wears maga hats would listen to B1den and think, wtf does that even mean.. I better vote for drmvph, he said that one democrat wore dirty dirty sweatsuits. hahahahahha
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Politics as a mediation of our differences.
In my opinion Biden's speech was magnificent and awesome in every way, one of the best and most focused speeches I ever heard.
But it is suspicious that he did not specifically declare that Hillary Clinton is not a cannibal ....
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In my opinion Biden's speech was magnificent and awesome in every way, one of the best and most focused speeches I ever heard.
But it is suspicious that he did not specifically declare that Hillary Clinton is not a cannibal ....
fohat, I think you're exactly the type of radical left that "actually exists".
There's Bernie Sanders, who is legit, then there are the other "Demo(rats, B1den" who are no more/less billionaire tools than the republikants. Different masters, same crimes.
Democrats over promise under perform all the same. Then every year, America is AT WAR AGAIN. Most nv(lear disarmament actually happened during republ1can terms. They do it for selfish reasons too, to manipulate energy markets in their favor, but that's the point, they're all bad guys.
I'm not asking for perfect, as you say, move the needle, but I also don't believe b1den is any less of a liar.
America is an imperialist institution, all our gains are worth NOTHING as climate change is coming down on us.
Humanity is at large a bunch of people bickering at each other inside a burning house.
By all means, VOTE DEMO(RAT, but we can't be deluded into thinking they understand the common good as anything other than the normal capitalist enterprise where just about everything goes to the top.
More important than anything else in the world. EAT VEGGIES. There is no other solution to our almost certain destruction.
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Politics as a mediation of our differences.
In my opinion Biden's speech was magnificent and awesome in every way, one of the best and most focused speeches I ever heard.
But it is suspicious that he did not specifically declare that Hillary Clinton is not a cannibal ....
Do you have a link to the speech? I'm curious now :) .
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https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/09/01/remarks-by-president-bidenon-the-continued-battle-for-the-soul-of-the-nation/ (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/09/01/remarks-by-president-bidenon-the-continued-battle-for-the-soul-of-the-nation/)
The cannibalism part was mockery of the conspiracy theorists, of course.
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The cannibalism part was mockery of the conspiracy theorists, of course.
can't remember where I read that humans taste like pork.
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can't remember where I read that humans taste like pork.
I thought that the colloquial Chinese word for human was "long pork" ....
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have not heard that. it may be some other asian nation.
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Do you have a link to the speech?
And by the way, here are excerpts from Drumpf's speech a couple of days later in reply:
"As you know this week Joe Biden came to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to give the most vicious, hateful and divisive speech ever delivered by an American president, vilifying 75 million citizens, plus another probably 75 to 150.
There's only one party that's waging war in American democracy by censoring free speech, criminalizing dissent. You see that happening? Disarming law-abiding citizens, issuing lawless mandates and unconstitutional orders, imprisoning political protesters. That's what they're doing, rigging elections. weaponizing the Justice Department and the FBI like never ever before. And raiding and breaking into the homes of their political opponents. I wonder who that could be.
Republicans in the MAGA movement are not the ones trying to undermine our democracy. We are the ones trying to save our democracy very simple. The danger to democracy comes from the radical left, not from the right. Not from the right.
The FBI and the Justice Department have become vicious monsters. controlled by radical left scoundrels lawyers and the media who tell them what to do — you people right there — and when to do it.
They're trying to silence me and more importantly, they are trying to silence you. But we will not be silenced, right. We will never stop speaking the truth. We have no choice because we're not going to have a country love. The evil and malice of this demented persecution of you and me should be obvious to all entities."
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In my opinion Biden's speech was magnificent and awesome in every way, one of the best and most focused speeches I ever heard.
But it is suspicious that he did not specifically declare that Hillary Clinton is not a cannibal ....
fohat, I think you're exactly the type of radical left that "actually exists". [/size]
I don't think there is a "left" in America, not even a moderate one :p .
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/09/01/remarks-by-president-bidenon-the-continued-battle-for-the-soul-of-the-nation/ (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/09/01/remarks-by-president-bidenon-the-continued-battle-for-the-soul-of-the-nation/)
The cannibalism part was mockery of the conspiracy theorists, of course.
Interesting speech. I think it makes perfect sense what he's saying in most cases, but I also wouldn't be surprised if he's underestimating the problem. I find people tend to forget how terrifyingly easy and quick social progress can be undone. Trump's supporters are also obviously quite insane and will stop at nothing. Freedom of speech and opinion is one thing, but what we see on the news over here at least (and I'm sure that's a skewed perspective) shows a bunch of dangerous lunatics who may be on the cusp of forming critical mass, and who are quite willing and able to commit violence to get what they want.
The fact that the the storming of the Capitol building is still not widely considered an act of terrorism is beyond me. I think the tolerance for that act is what's led every thing to spiral out of control.
By the way, does he have a thousand teleprompters set up or is he doing it by heart?
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wouldn't be surprised if he's underestimating the problem
Trump's supporters are also obviously quite insane and will stop at nothing .... a bunch of dangerous lunatics who may be on the cusp of forming critical mass, and who are quite willing and able to commit violence to get what they want.
does he have a thousand teleprompters set up
Understating the problem is the only way to not appear as rabid as the "deplorables" themselves.
Mass insanity is altogether different compared to individuals with mental problems. What we are looking at is the result of a bizarre narrative that has been advertised and sold to gullible people who feel that they have been marginalized and exploited (which they have, of course), proposing that "the left" is somehow responsible for the social and economic changes that have most frightened and disoriented the working class in America over the past 4 decades.
The goal of the ultra-wealthy, when they purchased the Republican Party in the late-1970s, was to create a composite base that would be large enough to elect and enable their paid politicians to alter tax laws and regulations so that top 1% can avoid tax altogether.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/01/richest-one-percent-gained-trillions-in-wealth-2021.html (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/01/richest-one-percent-gained-trillions-in-wealth-2021.html)
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/irs-budget-cuts-let-wealthy-tax-cheats-get-away/ (https://www.americanprogress.org/article/irs-budget-cuts-let-wealthy-tax-cheats-get-away/)
This has been a successful multi-pronged approach, but they over-shot their mark and seeded a cancer of hate and anger that took on a life of its own. Frankly I am surprised that it has not expressed itself in a lot more random killing than it has. I do take some consolation in the fact that more and more of the "rich elites" are recognizing that while social discord may benefit them - actual disruption of society is very bad for business.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/06/new-poll-finds-6-in-10-us-adults-support-for-prosecuting-trump-for-january-6-capitol-attack/ (https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/06/new-poll-finds-6-in-10-us-adults-support-for-prosecuting-trump-for-january-6-capitol-attack/)
Generally teleprompters are set up on left and right with the same screen so that the speaker can sweep his gaze around the room.
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"the left" is somehow responsible for the social and economic changes that have most frightened and disoriented the working class in America over the past 4 decades.
The goal of the ultra-wealthy
they have. they've all done it. The left is not salvation, it's shi7 sandwich option 2.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/09/06/trump-nuclear-documents/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/09/06/trump-nuclear-documents/)
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/09/06/trump-nuclear-documents/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/09/06/trump-nuclear-documents/)
will it work though, he's probably got alot of kompromat on other politicians being vegas legacy.
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Kevin McCarthy
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Kevin McCarthy
what'd he do ?
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what'd he do ?
Same old same old. But you have to admit that face is choice.
https://newrepublic.com/article/167661/midterm-2022-oz-mastriano-trump#Echobox=1662956822 (https://newrepublic.com/article/167661/midterm-2022-oz-mastriano-trump#Echobox=1662956822)
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Loading boxes of documents in Florida bound for Bedminster.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1568794643739086848 (https://twitter.com/i/status/1568794643739086848)
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Special Master
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that has to be photoshop, it doesn't even make sense.
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I see where that previous photo came from : Fox TV 2022-09-22
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sooo... sep 24t' did ne thing happen ?
nothn' on internet.
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Nope, add it to the list.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events)
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Trump will be subpoenaed to testify under oath before the House committee.
Will he show? If he does, he will certainly plead the 5th Amendment countless times.
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Looks like AG Merrick Garland is moving now.
https://www.justice.gov/live (https://www.justice.gov/live)
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How is it possible that he's even remotely being considered in any way to run again for another term?
It's less believable than Nixon rising from the dead and running again.
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because he's popular with their flock.
why are priests who rap3 alter boys still in charge with catho1ocism, because they're still popular with their flock.
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How is it possible that he's even remotely being considered in any way to run again for another term?
It's less believable than Nixon rising from the dead and running again.
There's only a few limitations on who can't run, the theory being that since it's an elected position it should weed out the bad, same reason we don't have age limits at the upper end either.
Some rules have been proposed or even put in place but have often been struck down as racist or ageist (or as a simple F-U).
The one rule we don't have but really should though is the ability to pass a basic security background check like our military.
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the ability to pass a basic security background check
Yes, even when I worked as a lower-level DHS employee some years ago they did a thorough background check, I talked to some of my friends, family, and former employers about it later.
And we all take the same oath, elected officials, military, etc, and pledge :
"to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty"
So much for that, especially the part about ensuring domestic tranquility ....
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Wouldn't being under investigation by the DOJ for treason be enough to prevent him from running again? Or any of the massive amount of illegal **** he and his family have been proven thoroughly to have committed while he was in office? That's all good?
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been proven thoroughly
Generally, you are "considered innocent" until "proven guilty" and even that line is not always a hard line.
Trump's plan of last resort is to settle in the last minute of the 11th hour. Then you avoid being "proven" guilty while - nudge nudge wink wink - you and everybody else know that you are guilty as sin. And you don't even have to admit it in public !
And "treason" is something that you are doing to actively help an enemy, and legally we may or not even have enemies today :
https://theworld.org/stories/2014-09-16/us-now-involved-134-wars-or-none-depending-your-definition-war (https://theworld.org/stories/2014-09-16/us-now-involved-134-wars-or-none-depending-your-definition-war)
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Generally, you are "considered innocent" until "proven guilty" and even that line is not always a hard line.
All it will take is one hardcore Trumper who believes he did nothing wrong no matter what to slip into the jury and he walks.
Same problem they had with Elizabeth Holmes, quite a lot of people think she did nothing wrong.
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The is Jack Smith, the prosecutor appointed Special Counsel for the Trump investigation. Shown in court in The Hague.
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This article is a bit long but extremely well focused and worth the read.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/16/2142212/-What-the-Final-Stage-of-Reaganism-Looks-Like (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/16/2142212/-What-the-Final-Stage-of-Reaganism-Looks-Like)
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ok , yes republicans did do all of those things, buhhhh are democrats categorically better. they are no less wealthy, no less political doners, no less major land owners, capitalists, medical bill predators, etc.
bill gates, a democrat doner, silicon valley, knee deep in the weapons industry with his modular rea(tors, understand this, 70% of the budget of our department of Energy is spent on Nv(lear, which produces a tiny fraction of all our electricity, the bulk of it is weapons and military expense.
there probably isn't a political solution. it's the nature of man to have its mind and government rot with age.
nature will hit the tipping point, and the great calamity is likely to reset humanity. again, we're already IN the Anthropocene extinction event, it's happening RIGHT NOW, the house is on fire, we're all in it.
yes, vote democrat, but be realistic, so that you won't be disappointed when they're every bit as fascist, it's just how humans behave when they're in power.
the only way this works, is if we revolt, everyone strikes, have our own cultural revolution, eat the rich, all of them. we do have the power, exercise it.
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I used to think it was so absurd that Hitler was able to stage a full-on coup d'etat and only go to jail for a year when it failed.
Apparently though, nowadays you don't get even that.
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Actual Christmas message :
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Actual Christmas message :
Uhh wasn't he banned from Twitter? xD
(and then unbanned but he said he'd never post there anymore?)
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wasn't he banned from Twitter?
He created a pitiful lame ersatz Twitter wannabe called "Truth Social" which has been his new soap box.
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Surely the donation money is rapidly drying up as all but the poorest and most stupid rats have already left the ship.
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-invited-press-media-availability-135849904.html (https://news.yahoo.com/trump-invited-press-media-availability-135849904.html)
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wasn't he banned from Twitter?
He created a pitiful lame ersatz Twitter wannabe called "Truth Social" which has been his new soap box.
Oh yes, now I just noticed how it says "retruth" instead of "retweet". That's pretty funny actually xD .
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Maybe not.
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Dare we hope for justice?
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I just read the indictment, it is only 49 pages long.
Whew! They really do operate like a classic organized crime family.
Very little doubt that important military secrets were for sale to the highest bidders.
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I just read the indictment, it is only 49 pages long.
Whew! They really do operate like a classic organized crime family.
Very little doubt that important military secrets were for sale to the highest bidders.
in reality most military secrets are worthless because we're at the point where no real wars can be fought without planetary annihilation, so realistically, it's all posturing.
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You might want to read the indictment.
It is not about actual information on war-fighting, it is about the monetary value that a variety of players might pay for information on a variety of other players.
The Saudis did not pay Jared Kushner $2Billion with a "B" because they intend to attack the US.
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It's berserk to me that he's running again in this election. Cannot wrap my mind around it.
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It's berserk to me that he's running again in this election. Cannot wrap my mind around it.
why? he wants more than anything to be president again, and forever. he wouldn't want it any other way.
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in reality most military secrets are worthless because we're at the point where no real wars can be fought without planetary annihilation, so realistically, it's all posturing. [/size][/color]
Not everything is about "winning" a war..
Names of spies (ours, theirs, allies...), secret technology and alliances, technological capabilities, defense capabilities, submarine locations, invasion plans of friends and enemies (we have multiple for everyone), military deployments, compromising info on allies and enemy leaders and possible future leaders....
Knowledge is power.
The fallout from this is going to change world politics for decades, our allies already lost a ton of faith in us and we aren't even sure what all has been compromised.
For those who've never had a security clearance,
I know it sounds cool to have secret info or a security clearance but the truth is you really don't, it has no value except to bad actors and now you have to be mindful of anything you say/do/go and of course the people you meet. That info can get you or others (including family) kidnapped, tortured or killed. If you think about it, you really don't want this info especially at higher levels if you can avoid it. Besides, what good is knowing the greatest secret if you can't tell anyone and could get you tortured and killed?
So ask yourself, why would someone who openly said he didn't trust our intel community and rarely sat in for intel briefings have so much of it?
Two things I can think of is Kushner's $2B deal with the Saudis (an enemy of Iran), as well as the sudden takeover of PGA Tours US and EU by Saudi owned LIV Golf right after they announced they were banning Trump courses from the tour.
By the way, I HIGHLY recommend watching this while keeping in mind what is currently going on. It should scare the hell out of you.
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in reality most military secrets are worthless because we're at the point where no real wars can be fought without planetary annihilation, so realistically, it's all posturing. [/size][/color]
Not everything is about "winning" a war..
Names of spies (ours, theirs, allies...), secret technology and alliances, technological capabilities, defense capabilities, submarine locations, invasion plans of friends and enemies (we have multiple for everyone), military deployments, compromising info on allies and enemy leaders and possible future leaders....
Knowledge is power.
The fallout from this is going to change world politics for decades, our allies already lost a ton of faith in us and we aren't even sure what all has been compromised.
What is at the core of SECRETS.
Secrets are only necessary when any person or group is Overprovisioned (overpaid) or Overpowered (almost all political office).
This is a fundamentally stupid arrangement of leadership. The only reason ANYONE has anything to lose, is because they've taken or have been paid MORE than they need and/or are capable of efficiently managing (overpower).
Wars are fought over which Oligarch gets the Excess, all the while, they tell the Plebs to go die for them. But they say it's for Pride and Nationhood.
All oligarchs of All Nations ARE BAD,
Plebs need more education. Don't fight the Oligarch's wars for them.
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I HIGHLY recommend watching this
I watched it, fearful of "oh no, what now?" but I knew almost all of it already. But then, I have been reading extensively on this for years now.
2 books that delved deep into this material are House of Trump, House of Putin by Unger and How Democracies Die by Levitsky.
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Now here it is from the "mainstream media"
https://abcnews.go.com/US/after-white-house-trump-allegedly-discussed-potentially-sensitive/story?id=103760456 (https://abcnews.go.com/US/after-white-house-trump-allegedly-discussed-potentially-sensitive/story?id=103760456)
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Now here it is from the "mainstream media"
https://abcnews.go.com/US/after-white-house-trump-allegedly-discussed-potentially-sensitive/story?id=103760456 (https://abcnews.go.com/US/after-white-house-trump-allegedly-discussed-potentially-sensitive/story?id=103760456)
Oh I saw this. Mar-a-lago was basically a spy hotspot cause of the amount of things that trump would just reveal on a whim. He is the reason why spies in china were arrested or killed cause he revealed this info. This is why I see trump as more funny than evil because of how stupid he is.
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• “He was thin-skinned and easily distracted,” said Nikki Haley, UN Ambassador and 2024 GOP candidate.
• “We can’t be following celebrity leaders with fragile egos who refuse to acknowledge reality,” said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who opposes his re-election.
• “President Trump endangered my family,” said Vice President Mike Pence, referring to January 6 rioters who wanted to hang him, and Trump didn’t call them off. When picked for VP, Trump said he was “the man who I truly believe will be outstanding in every way.”
• “Donald Trump is not fit to be president. I have been in those rooms when he’s met with those leaders. They think he's a laughing fool,” said National Security Adviser John Bolton, who is not supporting his re-election.
• “Our country can't be a therapy session for a troubled man,” said Attorney General Bill Barr, who also opposes his re-election.
• “He places our nation’s security at risk,” said Secretary of Defense Mark Esper.
• “A man who is pretty undisciplined,” said Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
• “He failed at being the president when we needed him to be that,” said Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, referring to the January 6 insurrection.
• “A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution, and the rule of law. God help us!” said White House Chief of Staff John Kelly.
• “Clearly an irrational man,” said White House Aide Cassidy Hutchinson.
• “He cares about no one but himself,” said press Secretary Stephanie Grisham.
• “The domestic terrorist of the 21st century,” said Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci
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Not long ago, I learned that Trump is not human (https://www.imdb.com/list/ls069320303/?ref_=nm_rls_1) ...
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(https://i.imgur.com/1uEw5z3.gif)
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America is ****ing retarded
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An extremely loud 20% of America is ****ing retarded
Fixed that for you.
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imagine a world where Americans actually had a choice in who runs their country lol. instead we have
Choice A: Old guy who likes ice cream and cant remember where he is or what he is doing, cant form sentences
Choice B: Old guy who likes money (and... showers...), cant form sentences for a different reason (he doesn't finish sentences, just keeps rambling forever)
a young, fit, intelligent, cultured human who understands every side and makes choices to benefit not corporations but the common people of the United States... ah, I'm daydreaming again.
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Choice A: Old guy who likes ice cream and cant remember where he is or what he is doing, cant form sentences
Are you ****ing kidding me?
Joe Biden is a brilliant tactician who has managed tremendous acheivements in the face of colossal opposition, primarily because of his knowledge and experience - although he is not perfect (eg Israel/Palestine).
PS - both his physical and mental health are excellent for a man of his age.
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Choice A: Old guy who likes ice cream and cant remember where he is or what he is doing, cant form sentences
Are you ****ing kidding me?
Joe Biden is a brilliant tactician who has managed tremendous acheivements in the face of colossal opposition, primarily because of his knowledge and experience - although he is not perfect (eg Israel/Palestine).
PS - both his physical and mental health are excellent for a man of his age.
ok but he's still old asf
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Choice A: Old guy who likes ice cream and cant remember where he is or what he is doing, cant form sentences
Are you ****ing kidding me?
Joe Biden is a brilliant tactician who has managed tremendous acheivements in the face of colossal opposition, primarily because of his knowledge and experience - although he is not perfect (eg Israel/Palestine).
PS - both his physical and mental health are excellent for a man of his age.
ok but he's still old asf
One can critique the current landscape of aging politicians and also support one. We don't have alternatives. Biden isn't some soon-to-be late stage dementia patient, but you can see he isn't as quick or put together as a young buck. We have no shortage of leaders over the age of 40, but under 60. Why we focus all our efforts on these folks who should either be retired or should be consultants/etc vs the actual leaders is beyond me.
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Choice A: Old guy who likes ice cream and cant remember where he is or what he is doing, cant form sentences
Are you ****ing kidding me?
Joe Biden is a brilliant tactician who has managed tremendous acheivements in the face of colossal opposition, primarily because of his knowledge and experience - although he is not perfect (eg Israel/Palestine).
PS - both his physical and mental health are excellent for a man of his age.
ok but he's still old asf
One can critique the current landscape of aging politicians and also support one. We don't have alternatives. Biden isn't some soon-to-be late stage dementia patient, but you can see he isn't as quick or put together as a young buck. We have no shortage of leaders over the age of 40, but under 60. Why we focus all our efforts on these folks who should either be retired or should be consultants/etc vs the actual leaders is beyond me.
because its all rigged lol
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Choice A: Old guy who likes ice cream and cant remember where he is or what he is doing, cant form sentences
Choice B: Old guy who likes money (and... showers...), cant form sentences for a different reason (he doesn't finish sentences, just keeps rambling forever)
Biden's had a stutter all his life, it takes a lot of concentration to keep it from happening when he speaks. Don't mistake a speech impediment for a memory problems.
Every video I've seen of Biden supposedly being "out to lunch" has been edited or even flat out doctored, including the latest making the rounds on Reddit the other night. The fact that anyone believed that one surprised me it was so bad.
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What you all don't realize is up until this point Biden has only been using 5% of his power...
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What you all don't realize is up until this point Biden has only been using 5% of his power...
not even counting... DARK BRANDON
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Dark_Brandon.jpg)
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68600093
He might be got this time, it seems like it's the start of the downfall of trump
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68600093
He might be got this time, it seems like it's the start of the downfall of trump
The thing for him now is anyone who is willing to work with him will need to be sure their noses are squeaky clean. As any form of support via lending will be heavily scrutinized and I'd rather not invite cops into my home, regardless of how clean it is. I can 100% understand why nobody wants to put up a billion in cash.
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With the Supreme Court willing to run interference for him at every turn, he might be able to worm around and get most of his indictments and appeals postponed until after the election.
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It just does my head in that Trump is even allowed to run in his current state of affairs, and even more boggling, there are people who still support him after seeing what he is capable of.
And a lot of libs will say his supporters are braindead midAmerica uneducated gun-toting yokels, but I can absolutely assure you that is not totally the case. What is really scary is there are people I personally know, who I consider to be very intelligent, who still fall for the propaganda. What is even more dangerous is those smart people can take those watery headlines and muddle them in such a way they use it to dupe dumber people. It is cultish and crazy.
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It just does my head in that Trump is even allowed to run in his current state of affairs, and even more boggling, there are people who still support him after seeing what he is capable of.
And a lot of libs will say his supporters are braindead midAmerica uneducated gun-toting yokels, but I can absolutely assure you that is not totally the case. What is really scary is there are people I personally know, who I consider to be very intelligent, who still fall for the propaganda. What is even more dangerous is those smart people can take those watery headlines and muddle them in such a way they use it to dupe dumber people. It is cultish and crazy.
Based on dark web (onspiracy sites. Drumph likely ran the same service as eps7e1n did only far more expansive through his casino/hotel/club pathways.
This cult, so to speak, spans very large involving other world governments.
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For me, the strangest part is how so many "religious" people ignore his evil and insanity.
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For me, the strangest part is how so many "religious" people ignore his evil and insanity.
Based on research, this is not insanity, the unsavory subject is prevalent throughout human history in every era, especially among the ruling class.
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For me, the strangest part is how so many "religious" people ignore his evil and insanity.
For a lot of these people, they are fearful that Christianity will be suppressed due to the rising amount of people that are agnostic or just hate Christianity , so they turn to the republican party who preach that they will keep those traditional values. A lot of these people are also just naturally conservative, scared that the woke left will take over and stuff like that as well.
I also know you said religion as a whole but I feel a lot of people from other religions will not support trump because of the bigotry that he and his party says.
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For a lot of these people, they are fearful that Christianity will be suppressed due to the rising amount of people that are agnostic or just hate Christianity , so they turn to the republican party who preach that they will keep those traditional values. A lot of these people are also just naturally conservative, scared that the woke left will take over and stuff like that as well.
They also believe they're "better" than everyone else.
They can lie and cheat and just ask forgiveness or tell themselves god wanted this for them and if they can lie and cheat obviously everyone else must lie and cheat even more. It's the same reason they wonder why atheists aren't going around killing people because without a book/church telling them how not to, they would, which tells you a lot about some of these people.
This is why they fear the left being in charge, they know what they themselves would do if they were in charge and unrestrained. Trump taps into that exact narrative when he talks about being a tyrant... but only on the first day.
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So I have no idea how it is in reality, or especially what sentiments are actually prevailing in the US, but from where I'm watching, and how the media is portraying it, it frankly sounds like there's a 99% chance Trump is going to be re-elected. Is this accurate?
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U.S. news media wants a fight, it's good for ratings so they're always going to make it sound like it's neck or that the underdog is winning (especially Trump, he's traditionally good for ratings).
Could he though? Yeah, our electoral system gives conservatives an edge but his chances are probably less then they were in 2020. He's not gaining support, he's actually losing it. He's not winning over undecided, a lot of Republican voters died during Covid, and there's a bunch of Genz voters coming into voting age and they're overwhelmingly anti-Trump. He's also very broke, as is the Republican party and it's quite expensive to run for president, you need lots of advertising dollars to grab those undecided voters, they're the ones who (usually) decide the election and because both candidates are incumbents there's very few of those left (we know where each candidate stands). That means you're now going to have to try and pull votes from the other guy, and that costs even more money. Trump doesn't have it and big donors are fleeing.
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What she said.
Drumpf is absolutely toxic in the real world. 40% of Nikki Haley supporters plan to support Biden with both votes and money.
Volume of loudness does not equate to volume of voters.
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It's the boomer's fault,
Fohat.dig = boomer
It's Fohat's fault, he did it. :p
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So the "reports" (aka rumors) just keep piling up about Drumpf's stench, incontinence, and diapers.
Have any of you seen or heard any legitimate information on whether or not this is real?
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Internet says the release of information has never been pursued by drumph, as chances are they're real, and in a court case, even if the defendant gets a slap, they would establish that YES factually drumph does poop his pants. There's no winning that suit because it would only confirm the "rumor."
So, no matter what, you can't win money, and at best you damage your reputation further, so, yea, likely TRUE. If it was false, they could sue, get the guy to recant, get damages, however small for something like this and it'd be over.
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Any thoughts on that lady who killed her puppy with a handgun because it was inconvenient for her lifestyle?
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Any thoughts on that lady who killed her puppy with a handgun because it was inconvenient for her lifestyle?
Most human beings are just barely more intelligent than their cousin monkey.
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Any thoughts on that lady who killed her puppy with a handgun because it was inconvenient for her lifestyle?
Clearly, she is transcendently stupid.
Terminating unwanted domestic animals happens millions of times a day BUT YOU DON'T TALK ABOUT IT !!!
Or, at the minimum, fabricate some excuse to justify it.
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Terminating unwanted domestic animals happens millions of times a day BUT YOU DON'T TALK ABOUT IT !!!
It's hypocritical for people to get angry about this. Having domestic animals in general, fosters the industry which produces millions of strays. In the end, we kill more than we keep as pets. So, big picture, the pet trade is not love, it's animal churning Cute-Slavery. Veterinarians have the HIGHEST suicide-rate of Any-Industry.
These pet carnivores also consume ~1/3 of all meat produced, which means they're hugely responsible for the climate change Disaster..
If you must have a pet, ideally, it should be a veggie eating kind, or at least feed using V-dog type balanced dog food in appropriately large proportions. Cats must eat meat, but if the OWNER-himself can switch to 100% Veggie, the offset is certainly large enough to cover a few cats.
It's just better not to keep real-carnivores as pets though.
Humans are not omnivores, they are certainly not carnivores.
Humans are stringently Starchivores, Rice, Potato, Tubers, Corn..
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Trump guilty on all counts, I think dey got drumph this time.
Still crazy that he can still run for president while a convicted felon, but felons can't even vote for a president.
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can still run for president while a convicted felon
The Founders never dreamed that such a horrible and worthless person could go out in public and not be ridiculed.
The Constitution does not have any provisions or safeguards against the situtation we find ourselves in today.
And, although it is welcome news, this is by orders of magnitude the least of the cases against him - being about mere money and dishonesty.
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Trump guilty on all counts, I think dey got drumph this time.
Still crazy that he can still run for president while a convicted felon, but felons can't even vote for a president.
I still have two concerns...
He was still treated with kid gloves the entire time and will he see jail.
If it was you or me, we'd have already been in jail, even Cohen who handled the money and took a deal over it did time for this and yet I won't be surprised if Trump just gets house arrest or something despite overwhelming evidence, a very quick guilty verdict on all counts and being a massive flight and security risk. There is no reason for him to not be locked up and yet I won't be surprised if they don't. I also won't be surprised if there's riots either way.
Regardless of sentence, expect an absolute insane amount of money to be thrown at the next New York Governor race in order to get a Republican elected so they can pardon him. It's a state charge, not federal, Biden can't pardon for it and people need to stop acting like he can.
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Just watched a news item on Trump's recent conviction - though it's Dutch media, they called him the "favourite" which is again what it looks like to me from a distance, but different from what I've heard from some American sources.
So which is it, and is this conviction going to make a difference either way? xD Coudl even be positive for him, in some ways, I reckon.
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Just watched a news item on Trump's recent conviction - though it's Dutch media, they called him the "favourite" which is again what it looks like to me from a distance, but different from what I've heard from some American sources.
So which is it, and is this conviction going to make a difference either way? xD Coudl even be positive for him, in some ways, I reckon.
im not sure, this damn country is just too big for me to really judge who's the universal "Favorite" but i reckon he'll still be elected because... idk
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I still have two concerns...
He was still treated with kid gloves the entire time and will he see jail.
If it was you or me, we'd have already been in jail, even Cohen who handled the money and took a deal over it did time for this and yet I won't be surprised if Trump just gets house arrest or something despite overwhelming evidence, a very quick guilty verdict on all counts and being a massive flight and security risk. There is no reason for him to not be locked up and yet I won't be surprised if they don't. I also won't be surprised if there's riots either way.
Regardless of sentence, expect an absolute insane amount of money to be thrown at the next New York Governor race in order to get a Republican elected so they can pardon him. It's a state charge, not federal, Biden can't pardon for it and people need to stop acting like he can.
Even you or I wouldn't get prison time for a first offense. He is a technical first time offender of non-violent crime, no guns, no drugs and is 70+ years old. Also he was convicted of fraud, but in this specific case there is nobody who was "scammed" or "defrauded" out of money. So the technical damage is "$0.00". HOWEVER, his flippant disregard for the safety of the jury, the judge's daughter, and the prosecution team will be weighted in the judge's sentencing.
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I still have two concerns...
He was still treated with kid gloves the entire time and will he see jail.
If it was you or me, we'd have already been in jail, even Cohen who handled the money and took a deal over it did time for this and yet I won't be surprised if Trump just gets house arrest or something despite overwhelming evidence, a very quick guilty verdict on all counts and being a massive flight and security risk. There is no reason for him to not be locked up and yet I won't be surprised if they don't. I also won't be surprised if there's riots either way.
Regardless of sentence, expect an absolute insane amount of money to be thrown at the next New York Governor race in order to get a Republican elected so they can pardon him. It's a state charge, not federal, Biden can't pardon for it and people need to stop acting like he can.
Even you or I wouldn't get prison time for a first offense. He is a technical first time offender of non-violent crime, no guns, no drugs and is 70+ years old. Also he was convicted of fraud, but in this specific case there is nobody who was "scammed" or "defrauded" out of money. So the technical damage is "$0.00". HOWEVER, his flippant disregard for the safety of the jury, the judge's daughter, and the prosecution team will be weighted in the judge's sentencing.
It was 34 charges and no remorse.
It's not like "oops, sorry, my bad" it was "I did it, multiple times and I'll certainly do it again and you can't stop me!"
Also it may not have been monetary, but he was found guilty of election interference which should carry a harsh sentence. Were it Biden, Obama, Hunter or Hillary who did this he would be screaming for the death penalty. Oh wait, he already did that.
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Hoping this stuff sticks.
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I still have two concerns...
He was still treated with kid gloves the entire time and will he see jail.
If it was you or me, we'd have already been in jail, even Cohen who handled the money and took a deal over it did time for this and yet I won't be surprised if Trump just gets house arrest or something despite overwhelming evidence, a very quick guilty verdict on all counts and being a massive flight and security risk. There is no reason for him to not be locked up and yet I won't be surprised if they don't. I also won't be surprised if there's riots either way.
Regardless of sentence, expect an absolute insane amount of money to be thrown at the next New York Governor race in order to get a Republican elected so they can pardon him. It's a state charge, not federal, Biden can't pardon for it and people need to stop acting like he can.
Even you or I wouldn't get prison time for a first offense. He is a technical first time offender of non-violent crime, no guns, no drugs and is 70+ years old. Also he was convicted of fraud, but in this specific case there is nobody who was "scammed" or "defrauded" out of money. So the technical damage is "$0.00". HOWEVER, his flippant disregard for the safety of the jury, the judge's daughter, and the prosecution team will be weighted in the judge's sentencing.
It was 34 charges and no remorse.
It's not like "oops, sorry, my bad" it was "I did it, multiple times and I'll certainly do it again and you can't stop me!"
Also it may not have been monetary, but he was found guilty of election interference which should carry a harsh sentence. Were it Biden, Obama, Hunter or Hillary who did this he would be screaming for the death penalty. Oh wait, he already did that.
Oh I hope he is held accountable and for the punishment to fit the crime. I’m but a silly keyboard enthusiast who pays enough attention to US politics to know what’s going on, but not a lawyer who could confidently assess the case and other historical cases to attempt to venture the sentencing.
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Imagine having such a broken brain that a guilty conviction causes you to support someone more
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Imagine having such a broken brain that a guilty conviction causes you to support someone more
I don't really think it's that, to his supporters this just looks like a confirmation that he's being conspired against. Which is possibly even more dangerous.
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Imagine having such a broken brain that a guilty conviction causes you to support someone more
A similar statement was echoed after the OJ Simpson trial but that may be a one-sided perspective that isn’t taking into account the life experiences of those who do so. An inner-city minority who has seen police corruption firsthand, may rationally have believed Simpson’s innocence while those who have had positive experiences with law enforcement might have a disparate but still rational belief.
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It's not a broken brain in most cases. It's bad upbringing. Incorrect information. This disinformation is deliberate instilled by the local and state regime.
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It's not a broken brain in most cases. It's bad upbringing. Incorrect information. This disinformation is deliberate instilled by the local and state regime.
A lot is disinformation for sure. I think this is one of the things that "AI" has been very good at. We used to just blanket say that it was "Social Media" feeding the narrative. But far reaching "AI" has become the buzzword now. The truth is, it's humans with a digital tool that does a good job. AI taught to pinpoint exactly what information people get in their "X" feed, their Instagram reel, their TikTok, whatever "news" they think they're getting and feed it with exactly the narrative you want to push. It's already been happening for at least a decade.
I saw outrage after Orange ****ler was convicted of 34 felony charges for election fraud. Almost every talking point said that "Biden's DOJ" prosecuted him unfairly and the Judge was crooked. I mean, you can't get much further from the truth. But that's what they were saying.
You can see how the disinformation was built. The first thing that happened was that the DOJ looked into Trump illegally holding Classified documents. Then Trump was in court for civil fraud which was decided in a non-jury trial. A bench trial. Which is quite common. Then you have the issue where he was recently convicted by a jury of 12 members for falsifying business records in order to keep a steamy news story out of the press just before the election cycle started. It was an open and shut case of business record fraud. There was essentially no defense put forward because the evidence was so clear.
Now string them all together and you get "Biden's DOJ (1st case which is suspended indefinitely) dragged Drump to court, where the crooked Judge convicted him (2nd trial where he has to pay $355million from a bench trial where the judge passed the sentence)" If you bring up falsification of business records they either don't know what you're talking about (since most people on Earth assume that Trump falsifies every business record to game the system), or they think that what he did was not a big deal and he shouldn't face repercussions from it.
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Check it out.
https://x.com/BidenHQ/status/1797249076758507742 (https://x.com/BidenHQ/status/1797249076758507742)
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Check it out.
https://x.com/BidenHQ/status/1797249076758507742 (https://x.com/BidenHQ/status/1797249076758507742)
does trump have brain worms too lol
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does trump have brain worms too
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I think we forgot about how publicly the GOP downplays the effects and problems of global warming. Was very common to see this type of thing daily when the orange felon was in office.
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SCROTUS just awarded him absolute immunity for "official acts" ....
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SCROTUS just awarded him absolute immunity for "official acts" ....
And pretty much no oversight since you have to sue to determine if it was an "official" act, which can take years if at all since it can be declared state secret (by the Pres) and shut down entirely.
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SCROTUS just awarded him absolute immunity for "official acts" ....
That they waited for the last moment on the final day to do it is deeply upsetting, and disturbingly telling whose side they are on.
Get ready for 4 more years of misinformation and trying to start a Civil War.
Social media was the biggest mistake of the modern age. Never thought I'd be against freedom of speech, but damn is it dangerous.
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Social media was the biggest mistake of the modern age.
Humans' greatest talent seems to be creating mayhem, and our greatest mistake seems to be figuring out how to ameliorate it.
Imagine that within 40 years of figuring out how to build an airplane, we had invented an atomic bomb for it to carry ....
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Biden is done. Get him the hell out of there before it is too late!
Calls Harris, Trump, and Zelenskyy, Putin in the same day? We need a better option now, or evil will prevail.
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Apparently not.
Clearly, liberals lack the marksmanship skills of Republicans.
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Welp, things are about to get much much worse. God dammit.
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This was definitely rigged. If real, it was probably a mor0n repooplican't exercising concealed carry.
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definitely rigged
I don't know, apparently 2 randos were killed.
Seems like profoundly inept marksmanship to me.
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definitely rigged
I don't know, apparently 2 randos were killed.
Seems like profoundly inept marksmanship to me.
I don't know about it being staged, but do you really believe Trump gives a **** about anyone else but himself and how he comes out looking in this? Those 2 poor souls are now going to be leveraged for sympathy in a public and disgusting way.
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Weird thing being commonly discussed is certainly that the secret service hadn't maintained security of the perimeter. Building was in direct line of sight to the podium. Maybe they assessed it earlier but didn't have enough staff to actively control a wider radius? Given the concentration of protection surrounding the immediate podium (including government snipers).
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What you all don't realize is up until this point Biden has only been using 5% of his power...
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Most american cities are dead as a door knob most of the time these days. It's no wonder they slopped on their check duty.
But overall, nothing's changed, neither president has meaningfully committed to emissions reduction.
Biden wants to genocide more palistinians, Trump wants to genocide everyone who's not white, and economically genocide everyone but him and his cronies.
So effectively, these old farts will drag us all off the cliff with them.
Keep in mind, electric buildout will INCREASE net emissions in the next 30-50 years, an amount of time we DO NOT HAVE.
Let's not even get started with how much emissions yet another american caused war generates.
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This election is Necrons vs Tyranids, whoever wins, everyone else loses
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neither president
whoever wins, everyone else loses
The relentless cacophony of false equivalencies is simply unbelievable.
The differences are stark, and as wide and as deep as the Grand Canyon.
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The relentless cacophony of false equivalencies is simply unbelievable.
The differences are stark, and as wide and as deep as the Grand Canyon.
TP4 DISAGREEs.
Both presidents are products and slaves to "the system of capitalism."
Humanity is facing a problem, that capitalism CAN NOT SOLVE. No matter how you tweak this failure of a system, it will always produce the same outcome.
The product of capitalism is fulfillment to satiety, then beyond that, the vanity cause of super-normal stimulus (experiences), shopaholicism, porn, baconator burgers, marijuana, methamphetamine.
The President, Any President is only possible when he panders to his oligarchal/ plutocratic constituents. There is no other way by which large human society operates.
WE ARE DOOMED, regardless of who we put in the chair. Neither presidents has any semblance of dismantling Capitalism, THEREFORE, the conclusion is clear, our future as mankind is sealed.
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We may be doomed, but would be slightly less doomed with Biden.
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It would be extremely close. Maybe a 5 year slower death at best.
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I read Hillbilly Elegy a few years ago.
It buggers my imagination that the person who wrote it could have become a Republican in today's America.
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The product of capitalism is fulfillment to satiety, then beyond that, the vanity cause of super-normal stimulus (experiences), shopaholicism, porn, baconator burgers, marijuana, methamphetamine.
Don't want to sound unnecessarily provocative but what exactly is wrong with those things? :p
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Trump is corrupt and evil, but that does not directly impact my every day life.
Biden, on the other hand, I have watched my grocery bill quite literally almost DOUBLE under his reign, my utilities are costing 1.5x more since he was President, my tax return has gone from small to me OWING MONEY which is crazy based on how little I make, and he promised to do away with my college loan debt which never materialized. Those things have basically ruined me and run me into the ground.
So I am to pick between electing evil, or living in poverty? Those are my choices? You tell me.
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my grocery bill quite literally almost DOUBLE
my utilities are costing 1.5x more
my tax return has gone from small
my college loan debt
The President has precious little to do with any of these things, and, BELIEVE ME! if the Republicans get back into power all those things will get a lot more expensive.
If you have any questions about this election, read about "Project 2025"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025)
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The product of capitalism is fulfillment to satiety, then beyond that, the vanity cause of super-normal stimulus (experiences), shopaholicism, porn, baconator burgers, marijuana, methamphetamine.
Don't want to sound unnecessarily provocative but what exactly is wrong with those things? :p
They represent severe distortions in the human experience which our brains have not evolved to cope with. The resultant compulsion to chase such vanity leads to the infinite pursuit of excess in a wasteful and destructive manner. The totality of mankind behaving this way results in the self annihilating certainty before us.
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The product of capitalism is fulfillment to satiety, then beyond that, the vanity cause of super-normal stimulus (experiences), shopaholicism, porn, baconator burgers, marijuana, methamphetamine.
Don't want to sound unnecessarily provocative but what exactly is wrong with those things? :p
They represent severe distortions in the human experience which our brains have not evolved to cope with. The resultant compulsion to chase such vanity leads to the infinite pursuit of excess in a wasteful and destructive manner. The totality of mankind behaving this way results in the self annihilating certainty before us.
You're self-contradicting now, on one hand you say this is inevitably the result of how humans operate, and on the other, you say it's unnatural and that this is a distortion of how humans operate.
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You're self-contradicting now
"Self-Contradicting" thy name is TP4.
In my opinion, various forms of hedonism correlate strongly with the rise of civilization when people transcend the point of having to spend the majority of their lives on survival alone.
Some people enjoy the pursuit of intellect and/or spirituality, others seek sensual pleasure - many desire both.
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You're self-contradicting now, on one hand you say this is inevitably the result of how humans operate, and on the other, you say it's unnatural and that this is a distortion of how humans operate.
The distortion is relative to our natural operating condition limited by prehistoric technology. Our chase of the super normal is a problem as the technology advanced too quickly for our biology to properly adapt. We abuse the technology to fulfill an unnatural quantity / concentration of hedonism in various forms.
The inevitably of our destruction is the result of miring in these addictively destructive behaviors.
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Some people enjoy the pursuit of intellect and/or spirituality, others seek sensual pleasure - many desire both.
Intellectual inference serves survival. The perception of pleasure is a traditional biochemical marker for meeting milestones of probable continuity. Once civilization builds enough buffer with its technology, we begin to invest in distortions. When these distortions become our primary industry, as is clearly our present economy, the soils parch and disintegrate. Deserts are the masterworks of every major civilization. It has followed us out of Africa, Middle East , Asia , the Americas.
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Some people enjoy the pursuit of intellect and/or spirituality, others seek sensual pleasure - many desire both.
Intellectual inference serves survival.
I'd argue the opposite. It is when society grows happy and indulgent does the mind of the masses drift towards higher intellectual pursuits(necessity being Mother of creation notwithstanding)
When people are at the bottom and struggling, all they think about is ****ing and eating, and getting ahead.
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Getting back on topic, people are saying that JDV (birth name James Donald Bowman, adoptive next name James David Hamel) is Trump 2.0, the young new version, bringing in the next generation, or whatever.
That is not true. JDV is Project 2025
The reality that the billionaire mega-donors don't want anybody talking about is - the second that Drumpf takes the oath of office he becomes worthless to them, and a colossal nuisance.
They will 25th Amendment his ass so fast that it will make your head spin.
The only people who Drumpf matters to are the people who matter the least.
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Check out this article, it really resonates:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/8/2/2260127/-Trump-s-Political-Downfall-The-Fat-Elvis-Phase-Begins (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/8/2/2260127/-Trump-s-Political-Downfall-The-Fat-Elvis-Phase-Begins)
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It resonates with sober people sure.
But the original Trump crowd does not read this stuff. They have their own informational bubble, and they're honestly not educated enough to have-doubt.
This is not only true of Trump voters though, it is more or less the same on the Democrat side, with a "slightly lower" percentage. One really must emphasize the "slight."
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https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article290986070.html (https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article290986070.html)
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OK, so Project 2025 turns out to be kind of a hindrance to Trump's campaign — makes sense, as everything in it looks like it comes straight out of a nightmare — but what I don't understand is, if this is what they want to implement but it's obviously nothing any sane voter would ever want, why publish this openly? Why not just use that ultra-vague 20-point campaign and put Project 2025 through when they've already been elected and nothing can stop them anymore? If you want to hijack the presidency and overturn the constitution, why give the people the chance to protest against it? What am I missing here?
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They're just talking points.
People vote and die for their "love" of the color blue. That is the nature of the mob. They are peasants. The project 2025 is a marketing spin, and it is what appeals to them.
The democrats talk about things like abortion which is the opposite, they've had ample opportunity over the years to actually codify, but they leave it. Meanwhile let's start more wars and increase military spending, EVERYONE agreed to that, totally, you all voted for this right? Poor people send their kids off to die.
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They're just talking points.
People vote and die for their "love" of the color blue. That is the nature of the mob. They are peasants. The project 2025 is a marketing spin, and it is what appeals to them.
The democrats talk about things like abortion which is the opposite, they've had ample opportunity over the years to actually codify, but they leave it. Meanwhile let's start more wars and increase military spending, EVERYONE agreed to that, totally, you all voted for this right? Poor people send their kids off to die.
I feel like you're kind of missing the point of my question. I doubt that anything in P25 would be considered "advertising" to even the most hardcore right-wingers (that is, the ones who aren't in office, of course) - and apparently I'm right on this point because even Trump is trying to distance himself from it now. So why would they reveal their hand and risk losig the election rather than get into office first and then just do it anyway once there is no way to stop them?
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why would they reveal their hand
They didn't.
The plan was developed in secrecy and was not intended to ever be seen by the general public.
Unfortunately (Fortunately!), it is practically impossible to keep something that large and sprawling in the dark forever.
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I feel like you're kind of missing the point of my question. I doubt that anything in P25 would be considered "advertising" to even the most hardcore right-wingers (that is, the ones who aren't in office, of course) - and apparently I'm right on this point because even Trump is trying to distance himself from it now. So why would they reveal their hand and risk losig the election rather than get into office first and then just do it anyway once there is no way to stop them?
Because they have no intention on doing any of the advertisement stuff. They WILL do the military spending part.
For example, Trump advertised (previously), send all the mexicans back, well he didn't do that, he only used it as an excuse to spend money on the wall, most of which payed to his cronies, and he gets a cut.
That's the nature of government and corporate. They just want to make money because they fundamentally don't understand what money is.
For example, the Anti-Gay stuff, The republicans don't care, the government doesn't care, they are just using it to get votes. They want the political power, and to use that power to serve themselves and their constituency, and the constituency is just a stupid cohort of idiots that want more money for no othre purpose than to "feel good".
Hating gays is the same as loving the color blue. It's entirely inconsequential to all the Gay-Haters or Blue-Lovers, but that's what they want, they're obsessed with that identity. Xbox vs PS5, same thing.
Gay people suffer ,the color blue suffers, PS5 suffers because the majority of human beings are THAT STUPID.
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I just want Trump to begone. It's so fatiguing to constantly be hearing about him and his base.
Just have a heart attack already, you fat old ****.
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I just want Trump to begone.
It will be a hollow victory unless he takes most of the MAGgots with him.
At least Vance has suceeded in making the country hate him, so presumably he will go away crawl back under his rock.
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I just want Trump to begone.
It will be a hollow victory unless he takes most of the MAGgots with him.
At least Vance has suceeded in making the country hate him, so presumably he will go away crawl back under his rock.
Apparently the judge overseeing (one of) his cases is adamant about sentencing him. It would be funny if it happens while the election is happening.
I still don't understand how someone who literally committed treason is the best candidate for the Republicans, its so bizarre. Plus he is flying around to rallies in the Lolita Express, after being on Epstein's list and being accused of raping a kid multiple times. How he does these things in the open, and still retains support is just so strange. Like his base would rather support the worst possible candidate, as long as they don't have to vote Blue. They don't care one bit about policies or the future of America, only that their 'side' wins.
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in the Lolita Express
Actually the "Lolita Express" was a different airplane owned by Epstein at an earlier time.
But I think that the MAGgots are just plain ANGRY and they want to express their anger by "voting with their middle fingers" - so their champion would almost have to be profoundly disgusting.
They are failing to assimilate in the modern world and want to sabotage "the future" as much as they can.
Was it Upton Sinclair who said that "when Fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a Bible" ?
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"when Fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a Bible" ?
I always expected as humanity evolved, religion would come less into play for politics and the welfare of the populous, as people gain more knowledge and empathy with a shrinking Global Stage.
But no, actually the opposite.
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religion would come less into play
The problem is that for "ordinary" people who look to religion as the road map for leading an honorable life, watching their map fading away is terrifying.
I think that for a person who is happy spending their time and philosophical currency searching out a lifelong personal path, someone else telling them what to do is an ugly irritation, but for people who want it all wrapped up with a ribbon on it - it is devastating to find out that their buoy is un-moored.
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religion would come less into play
The problem is that for "ordinary" people who look to religion as the road map for leading an honorable life, watching their map fading away is terrifying.
I think that for a person who is happy spending their time and philosophical currency searching out a lifelong personal path, someone else telling them what to do is an ugly irritation, but for people who want it all wrapped up with a ribbon on it - it is devastating to find out that their buoy is un-moored.
I don't believe religion is what bible bangers have. They have confused human social cult, with religion. Them AND their leaders expressly and proudly do most of the things their religion forbids.
Their relationship with GOD is non-existent, what they own is their "status" within a church circle. This is just another human organizational construct.
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their "status" within a church circle.
As in so many other areas, I look back at the Before Time (<1977) and what I see today is unrecognizable.
I grew up in a vibrant Presbyterian church in the 1950s-1960s that promoted human dignity and morality. Yes, ours was all white, and a variety of social problems such as racial inequality existed in our community - but while they may have been implicit they were not espoused explicitly - and certainly not glorified.
We were taught that it was wrong to lie and cheat and steal under any circumstances, and the teachings of Jesus were always front and center. I cannot remember anyone in the church being involved in a scandal but that is not to say that it didn't happen. And if they were caught in some iniquity they would have slunk away and never shown their face in there again.
There was NO political messaging and there was never any political issue, position, party, or candidate spoken about from the pulpit, ever. For example, even with the war in Vietnam raging, our minister would only say "and please bring our boys back home safely" (he didn't need to specify which boys or from where) in his prayers. Yes, he might have condemned the war as wrong, but those were very different times. I know that the congregation included both Republicans and Democrats, but I could not guess the ratio.
Maybe churches like that still exist today, but I suspect that they are pretty rare.
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Scraping the bottom of the barrel.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/community/howell/2024/07/20/as-trump-rallied-in-grand-rapids-demonstrators-chanted-heil-hitler-in-howell/74485823007/ (https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/community/howell/2024/07/20/as-trump-rallied-in-grand-rapids-demonstrators-chanted-heil-hitler-in-howell/74485823007/)
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Not a joke or spoof.
https://newrepublic.com/post/185199/trump-january-6-gala-fundraiser (https://newrepublic.com/post/185199/trump-january-6-gala-fundraiser)
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Well, you don't stop lying about the big lie. It is a BIG lie, so you must keep it rolling.
Also, grifters gonna grift, right?
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Surprise!
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This is how Hitler and most religions started, they target the disenfranchised, give them an Identity, and bam, Nazis.
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the disenfranchised
Those shoes were $300 (probably plus shipping) and the shirt and hat were probably at least $25 each, so this is a person prosperous enough to drop more than my monthly combined utility bills on ephemeral clothing items. He must not be entirely disenfranchised.
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the disenfranchised
Those shoes were $300 (probably plus shipping) and the shirt and hat were probably at least $25 each, so this is a person prosperous enough to drop more than my monthly combined utility bills on ephemeral clothing items. He must not be entirely disenfranchised.
Well, poor in other respects. He's eating fast food, probably works hard, not much skool, likes expensive shoes.
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He's eating fast food
It looks to me like he is drinking a fancy margarita and there appears to be a rather tacky woman's pocketbook in the counter, so he is living the dream.
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"Now she wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens in prison."
- Donald Trump 2024-09-10
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"Now she wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens in prison."
- Donald Trump 2024-09-10
This would be very expensive. Tooooo expensive.
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Just finished watching the debate.
Well, same 'ol same 'ol.
Harris is not a fresh direction as much as a mouthpiece for the continuation of American imperialism. And THAT SOUNDS GOOD, only, we don't live in a world where America can actually win an all out war.
There was a very brief period, right after we first went atomic, that our imperialism could've prevailed. Von Neumann, probably historically the most intuitive super intellect in a single human being said, Use the damn things now, blow them all up, because give it a couple years, we won't be able to. They'll have their own.
And that's where we are, All the major countries have their own atomic doomsday triggers.
POLAND, just announced more atomic buildup, they say power plants, but everyone knows it's just the front for refining weapons material, AS ARE ALL nuclear power plants.
So, effectively, our world, under BIDEN has become more dangerous and closer to midnight.
Harris, clearly has no thought of her own, she's just maintaining the status-quo of Atlanticism which has stood for the last 70 years.
Insurance, Abortion, Jobs, These are just distractions, yes they're meaningful for the proletariat class, but Harris has said nothing about exploiting the workers less. The idea that capitalism will continue, and her stance on Growing the economy, it only means continuing the inequality and misery of existing workers.
Donald says he'll do that outright, Harris will too, she just frames it nicer.
As for Israel, well, they're a better ally w/ money vs the broke Palestinians. So, she's pretty decided on continuing sending them weapons. Regardless of the morality problem, this means, it will continue to be a flash point. Even if you don't care who dies, it doesn't solve the problem.
She says, she's all about addressing climate change, Under democrats, we are now the largest oil producer in the world. We haven't done a damn thing about solar, she said no fracking, Now she's all fracking ok.
So, really. You're looking at 2 Conservative candidates. One's a nutter, the other one's a follower.
In the end it doesn't even matter. The world is arranged how it is arranged, and humans are too stupid to save themselves.
3 Flash points, Palestine, Ukraine, Taiwan. Trump knows that they're hopeless causes. Harris doesn't seem to actually care either, she just wants to participate. She literally said in her closing statement, she wants to ensure we have the most - lethal fighting force in the world. Meaning, let's continue to solve problems with the threat of violence. Sounds good.
She says that, with no consideration of how hollow having such a force is. India can end the world without landing a single nuclear warhead on american soil. All it has to do, is detonate enough soot to create nuclear winter, and the whole world can suicide together. That's how trivial it is to end humanity.
Trump is bad for just about everything, but he's stood better and been more amicable regarding the Spheres of Influence.
Our America is not the same super power we used to be, and if we continue to disrespect the nuclear option of other nations, we will very quickly find out leukemia is NO FUN for anyone.
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Disagree on most points. Your essay is mere opinion, but you present it as truths. This is my opinion as well. Equally valid to yours :cool:
I'm more interested in starting to fix the rot in our own country. This is top of my list. One candidate has a path in the right direction. She earns my vote
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Is the lack of the following that's crippling America.
Abortion
Fracking
Military spending
War
Both candidates intends to increase all 4.
Trumps slightly less on war, Harris slightly more on war. But both war.
Neither party has done or intends to do anything about climate change.
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Is the lack of the following that's crippling America.
Abortion
Fracking
Military spending
War
Both candidates intends to increase all 4.
Trumps slightly less on war, Harris slightly more on war. But both war.
Neither party has done or intends to do anything about climate change.
I disagree. It's the lack of courtesy, compassion, understanding, professionalism, and personal responsibility on display by many of our leaders crippling America. We cannot solve any of the issues you have listed until we can come together to fight them. A president cannot fight climate change without the support of congress. Congress is currently unwilling to take any action that would allow the president to succeed. We need to fix this problem. Which candidate seems more likely to tackle that issue? Seems like a Harris win to me. The current political atmosphere being stagnated by a loud minority able to filibuster any action needs to be swept clean. I hope enough Democrats are elected this year to finally move forward.
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It's the lack of courtesy, compassion, understanding, professionalism, and personal responsibility
And above and beyond that - putting the good of the country above all else.
It was not always that way. I grew up in a country that believed in moving forward.
Even Nixon, the Republican, for all of his failings, was responsible for establishing the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) !
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Which candidate seems more likely to tackle that issue?
Neither...
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And above and beyond that - putting the good of the country above all else.
It was not always that way. I grew up in a country that believed in moving forward.
Even Nixon, the Republican, for all of his failings, was responsible for establishing the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) !
Nixon/Reagan would be considered liberal lunatics today like Sanders.
Harris does not put the good of the country ahead of anything. She's a puppet at best. She does not have the clot, monetary or political to do anything of consequence.
Trump does, he chooses not to do anything good, but he does have alot of leverage coming from a criminal background.
Voting for Harris is extremely dangerous when it comes to matters of war. Harris can not steer american military industrial. She just doesn't have the kompromat.
Trump, is going to trash everything, but he is pliable enough, HIS COWARDICE, is not likely to get us into an actual war.
You'd be surprised, for all the racist proud-boy support Trump has given, Orthodox Jews in america OVERWHELMINGLY support Trump.
Tp4 has lived in Jew towns most his life, it's weird, but they want Trump.
WHY, they have their eyes on a few things, Israel, Less War spending, More Money for the rich.
The only thing Jews care about other than being Jewish, is money, that is a shallow thing, but it is also an extremely-practical-Metric, they're very in-tune with the political ramifications on the middle class..
Jewish people are the greatest historical survivors. They are above all else, Pragmatic.
There's alot of text, on historical crimes committed by them, and the current Zionist (Nazi) Israel doing a genocide on Palestine, but which culture hasn't done all of that at some point, at least 1/3 of America still considers black Americans an inferior race. Human beings are going to do this, some level of racism is biologically rooted.
But these issues are NOT important. What neither candidate will commit to is tackling climate change.
They're both committed to the capitalist economic growth model, which just amounts to burning more. Even if you burn fossil fuels into solar, it's still more burning.
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Putting it together, Who should we vote for.
Doesn't matter, just pick one, they're both incredibly bad.
Less likely of war going w/ Trump (in the short term), long term, probably War.
Climate change devastation will continue to get worse, and accelerate under either candidate.
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Putting it together, Who should we vote for.
Doesn't matter, just pick one, they're both incredibly bad.
Less likely of war going w/ Trump (in the short term), long term, probably War.
Climate change devastation will continue to get worse, and accelerate under either candidate.
Maybe, but I think it's clear whose actual agenda is giving the super-rich massive tax cuts and sabotaging your constitution in such a way that it permits effective dictatorship, and whose isn't.
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Maybe, but I think it's clear whose actual agenda is giving the super-rich massive tax cuts and sabotaging your constitution in such a way that it permits effective dictatorship, and whose isn't.
Money under capitalism has its own gravity, the Super Rich, will continue to get super richer, tax cuts or no tax cuts.
Worrying about that is pointless if the general population decides not to rebel against capitalism itself.
There is a problem of dictatorship, but at this point, the climate crisis is so dire, a dictator might end up being slightly better than a stupid, purposely mis-educated public.
Look at China and their solar, that was Emperor Xi, waving his hand. He said DO A SOLAR, and the Chinese did a solar.
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Orthodox Jews in america OVERWHELMINGLY support Trump.
the current Zionist (Nazi) Israel doing a genocide on Palestine
The excellent book Jewish History, Jewish Religion by Israel Shahak concisely puts this in perspective (and it is less than 200 pages long).
As long as the Orthodox have significant political power in Israel there will never be acceptance of Palestinians in Israel - and that is based on the Orthodox definition of what "Israel" is.
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The excellent book Jewish History, Jewish Religion by Israel Shahak concisely puts this in perspective (and it is less than 200 pages long).
As long as the Orthodox have significant political power in Israel there will never be acceptance of Palestinians in Israel - and that is based on the Orthodox definition of what "Israel" is.
It's a good book, fohat.
In the human world, if you don't do a genocide, no one takes you seriously. That's been the model every empire, including America, followed since records began.
Unfortunately, Nature will genocide all of mankind, soon, very soon, because we're not taking climate change seriously.
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This is ****ing hilarious :XD: .
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There is no doubt that he is mindless and incoherent.
Educated and rational people cannot bear to listen to it.
The best way to think about it is as his followers resembling the dog in this cartoon.
Their minds are generally disengaged but will respond momentarily to triggers, cheering, not necessarily only to "dog whistles" but also simply to words and phrases that have been repeated enough times to become recognizable and embedded.
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This is ****ing hilarious :XD: .
The comedy is on point, but one MUST emphasize.
Democrats / Harris will do nearly the EXACT same things Trump is doing/did going forward.
- Expand Economy (burn more fossil fuels).
- Produce more Fossil Fuels (We've become #1 oil producer under Biden). Harris wants to expand further, she walked back on fracking, and now fully endorses it. Cornell study just came out, fracking is WORSE THAN COAL, due to un-avoidable methane leakage across the production stack.
- Increase Military Spending, Harris unambiguously said she will do that during her Debate closing. The American military collectively is by far the #1/#2 carbon footprint on the planet, next to animal agriculture.
Neither has committed truly to any semblance of carbon reduction.
- Electrification is just kicking the can down the road, the Fossil fuel burned INTO electrical infrastructure, but NET-emissions will continue to increase over the next 30 years. 30 years we don't have.
Like I said, just pick 1, they're equally bad.
Trump = lower risk of war in the short term
Harris = larger risk of war in the short term
Those are the only relevant differences, but it is slight, they're both marching us towards conflict.
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Sure, just flip a coin.
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What depresses me is Taylor Swift is likely going to sway people who were on the fence. Because some random celeb should have the weight to decide an entire countries election... I ****ing hate this world.
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Sure, just flip a coin.
Fohat. You are constantly attacking trump, the PERSON. No one disagrees he's a bad guy.
Look at the facts of our system and our real political decisions. The democrats, biden, harris, is doing, and Will-Do exactly the same job as Trump.
Harris Biden, may be better people, but they follow the exact guideline laid out by the existing system, as Trump did.
Bernie Sanders was our only hope, and YOUR generation (the most politically and economically repsonsible) failed America by not supporting him.
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What depresses me is Taylor Swift is likely going to sway people who were on the fence. Because some random celeb should have the weight to decide an entire countries election... I ****ing hate this world.
Democracy is an ideal, but as applied to humanity, it's been a con/ illusion.
We do vote, we vote for killing animals, more fossil fuels to feed our garbage collecting, and completely disregard the real costs on the environment.
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Bernie Sanders was approximately in my generation. I have 2 "Bernie" T-shirts, along with my Elizabeth Warren shirt.
Political change is always glacial, no matter how pressing the issue.
But the Left has almost always tacked toward the arc of justice, while the Right invariably tacks away from it.
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That is blatantly false.
We have 2 Right wing parties today, one very right, one extreme. The left does not exist in american politics.
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That is blatantly false.
We have 2 Right wing parties today, one very right, one extreme. The left does not exist in american politics.
What is your vision of the left? A bunch of freebleeding anticapitalist anarchists tossing molotov's at banks?
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That is blatantly false.
We have 2 Right wing parties today, one very right, one extreme. The left does not exist in american politics.
What is your vision of the left? A bunch of freebleeding anticapitalist anarchists tossing molotov's at banks?
It did not used to be a radical idea that the PEOPLE who worked at the factory would Own It.
America had a shot at this, it was a very popular idea, even during Fohat's time, but it terrified the Owners of men. And so america strongly pivoted against it, crushing all notions of it.
The fact that you associate ""freebleeding anticapitalist anarchists"" with something bad, unruly, devious, deviant, is precisely the malicious indoctrination our-Owners planted in your education.
Our entire culture is designed around making psychopaths the hero. Nearly every major american movie/ video game is a murder simulator that solves all problems with gun violence. Good guy, bad guy, killing is the solution.
We are to be envious of oppressors, to worship and become them.
Earning a Wage as we do today is not different from Slavery.
In truth, you are in debt the moment you are born, you MUST make money to ensure your very right to exist, you have no claim to life until you accept those terms.
The Oligarchs have the exclusive right to Print money, and exclusive rights to violence, to kill you for stepping out of line.
Every other post, NT, you complain about your predicament, I can not ascertain if in truth you are as close to the line as you describe, but the facts of the SYSTEM are right in front of you, it's directly responsible for your isolation and narrow options.
As for TP4's vision, Let's get this climate change out of the way, before we discuss ideals.
Tp4 would gladly support a dictator at this point if it meant REDUCED CARBON EMISSIONS, the End of animal agriculture, and active reforestation..
Leaving decisions in the hands of an idiotic populace injected with deliberately bad education, taught to consume and collect garbage, to champion garbage as the epitome of Stylish living. Nothing good can come of this.
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That is blatantly false.
We have 2 Right wing parties today, one very right, one extreme. The left does not exist in american politics.
What is your vision of the left? A bunch of freebleeding anticapitalist anarchists tossing molotov's at banks?
I must admit that from a foreigner's perspective, the Democrats and Republicans seem like right-wing extremists and right-wing fundamentalists, respectively.
You'll probably think the inverse of the parties in my country, though.
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Democrats and Republicans seem like right-wing extremists and right-wing fundamentalists
It was not always like that.
Before the late 1970s there was some measure of balance, but the election of Reagan 1980 produced a (stealthy) colossal lurch toward right-wing extremism and set the stage for more forces that have been dragging us rightward ever since.
Not the least of which was the elimination of "the Fairness Doctrine" in broadcasting which did not allow media outlets to relentlessly hurl out one side of a political issue without presenting the other side at all.
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Fohat, Harris will send your kiddos off to war.
Get the draft dodging tickets ready, New Zealand perhaps.
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I've drank water this one time, as a poor person, it's very good water, like you never had. We will take the water, from Canada, they have been hoarding all this water. It's just sitting there, I have a great relationship with Trudeau. I am sure he will have no problems with it, and if he does, I've got a plan, a great plan, I'm going to negotiate, I am the best negotiator, my MIT uncle, and Elon Musk, smart guys, they agree I am great at negotiations. I will get the water, California will have more water than it could ever drink, but it's not enough water for the migrants, the illegal immigrants coming from all over, it wouldn't matter if we got all of the water, they will drink it all, we have to keep migrants out, you know Biden, he's just letting all these illegal mexicans drink america's water, not on my watch, Canada's water is for Americans only, and American water is making america great again.
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Fine people, the best people.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/24/project-2025-kevin-roberts-killed-dog (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/24/project-2025-kevin-roberts-killed-dog)
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Fine people, the best people.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/24/project-2025-kevin-roberts-killed-dog (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/24/project-2025-kevin-roberts-killed-dog)
Obama authorized the largest assassination campaign (Drone strikes) ever conducted by the United States. From the perspective of the other country, we are the terrorists.
Everyone in higher office, are dehumanized killers. Don't be lulled into believing there is a moral superiority here. This is our American Imperialism and the unlimited use of violence to justify itself.
Kamala is even weaker than Obama.
Biden might be too damn old, but at least he has clot and can swing his own ideas.
Bernie was America's last chance.
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Fine people, the best people.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/24/project-2025-kevin-roberts-killed-dog (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/24/project-2025-kevin-roberts-killed-dog)
Obama authorized the largest assassination campaign (Drone strikes) ever conducted by the United States. From the perspective of the other country, we are the terrorists.
Everyone in higher office, are dehumanized killers. Don't be lulled into believing there is a moral superiority here. This is our American Imperialism and the unlimited use of violence to justify itself.
Kamala is even weaker than Obama.
Biden might be too damn old, but at least he has clot and can swing his own ideas.
Bernie was America's last chance.
I'm sorry, but if you think Bernie Sanders is somehow "stronger" than "weak" Kamala Harris, it's blatant sexism. You've said it over and over again, and I've tried to read around it, but you have a pretty glaring issue with your reasoning. This is the reality that we are "not going back" to. It's gonna hurt, but you have to put up with women who are wiser, stronger, and better at running the world than you.
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you have a pretty glaring issue with your reasoning.
TP4 is a nihilist, and has placed himself in a downward spiral of negativity and cynicism.
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"The number of people who spend their lives engaged in violence and dishonesty is tiny compared to the vast majority who would wish others only well. According to the Dalai Lama, our survival has depended and will continue to depend on our basic goodness. Ethics for the New Millennium presents a moral system based on universal rather than religious principles. Its ultimate goal is happiness for every individual, irrespective of religious beliefs."
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you have a pretty glaring issue with your reasoning.
TP4 is a nihilist, and has placed himself in a downward spiral of negativity and cynicism.
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"The number of people who spend their lives engaged in violence and dishonesty is tiny compared to the vast majority who would wish others only well. According to the Dalai Lama, our survival has depended and will continue to depend on our basic goodness. Ethics for the New Millennium presents a moral system based on universal rather than religious principles. Its ultimate goal is happiness for every individual, irrespective of religious beliefs."
Tp4 has never argued that people spending their lives engaged in violence and dishonesty is the problem.
Those are all aspects of every human, and every communication system.
The problem is not with our methods, it's with our distorted world view, and limited capacity to even COMPREHEND the greater good.
The vast majority of Rich people, are Not Evil. But they ARE SICK.
Their world view is entrenched in the concept of capitalistic economic success, which only quantifies near term resource/energy conversions.
No amount of tweaking of this system can solve the true problem humanity faces.
Every tweak we make to the burning-killing machine results in slightly more or less burning and/or killing.
This system is crashing, will fully crash, and billions will die.
Why BERNIE. He is one of the few guys, that made his policies to start Turning the MACHINE OFF, and Redefining what economic success actually counts. The environment was going to be on the balance sheets (indirectly).
The vast majority of these policy works was actually ported into Biden's initial green deal, but that fell through instantly because Biden / Harris is just another puppet for status-quo-capitalism, and the bill we ultimately passed, is basically just Burn more fossil fuels, economic growth at all cost.
Biden Harris has done absolutely NOTHING for the environment. In fact they've made it significantly worse.
Bernie was the last chance, he was the ONLY person with legitimate environmental policies.
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Turning the MACHINE OFF
The world has become much much "smaller" and more firmly interconnected in the last half-century, and there can be no doubt that we are desperately in need of some sort of mechanism that can "oversee" the whole of the planet, at least to mitigate the most egregious depredations of weak by the powerful. My guess is that we are still far away from any sort of "world government" but it seems inevitable if the human race is to continue in the long term - and the US and its allies are simply incapable of "policing" the whole world, even in the relatively straightforward task of defending national border lines.
"Reform" has always meant those with power relinquishing portions of their power to those without it. Modern democracies have been striving to do this with some small successes, but since the beginning of the Reagan era our country has been relentlessly moving in the wrong direction.
Worst of all, bad actors have now learned to use the world wide network of interwebs to drown the general population in confusion, and far too many are not emotionally and intellectually prepared to reject it.
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Scientifically it is possible that the self-destructive attitude of our existing social structure is hardcoded.
Nature has gotten their utility out of mankind, there were too many trees at one point, pushing the earth into ice-ball, humans successfully trimmed enough trees such that it doesn't happen. Now we self extinguish, and allow the trees to come back.
Extinction may be inevitable.
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"We wouldn't have hostile takeovers of Springfield, Ohio, Aurora, Colorado, where they are actually going in with massive machine gun-type equipment.
They are going in with guns that are beyond even military scope, and they are taking over apartment buildings.
They're taking over real estate. They're in the real estate development business. Congratulations.
These are in that case people from Venezuela, young street-gang members that were sent here by the government of Venezuela."
- ex-pres Drumpf - in public (onstage in NC) 2024-09-26
Does reality even matter to the MAGA crowd any more?
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"We wouldn't have hostile takeovers of Springfield, Ohio, Aurora, Colorado, where they are actually going in with massive machine gun-type equipment.
They are going in with guns that are beyond even military scope, and they are taking over apartment buildings.
They're taking over real estate. They're in the real estate development business. Congratulations.
These are in that case people from Venezuela, young street-gang members that were sent here by the government of Venezuela."
- ex-pres Drumpf - in public (onstage in NC) 2024-09-26
Does reality even matter to the MAGA crowd any more?
There is one apartment building in like Aurora or something that had some gang members living there. But then again, almost any low-income/affordable apartment housing in poor areas will have gang members living there. They were just bold because they were making TikTok videos of them shooting their AKs at street signs and stuff. When I lived in Aurora we had Bloods in our building who would always be hanging out on the steps smoking weed and playing loud music, but the President never talked about them. Wonder why.
Another story based in truth, totally distorted and made into a lie by Trump.
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They are going in with guns that are beyond even military scope, and they are taking over apartment buildings.
Another story based in truth
You are being pretty generous there.
Check out this gem by JD and let me know what "truth" you think it is based on:
"In particular, there’s evidence that the car seat rules that we’ve imposed — which of course, I want kids to drive in car seats — have driven down the number of babies born in this country by over 100,000."
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"We wouldn't have hostile takeovers of Springfield, Ohio, Aurora, Colorado, where they are actually going in with massive machine gun-type equipment.
They are going in with guns that are beyond even military scope, and they are taking over apartment buildings.
They're taking over real estate. They're in the real estate development business. Congratulations.
These are in that case people from Venezuela, young street-gang members that were sent here by the government of Venezuela."
- ex-pres Drumpf - in public (onstage in NC) 2024-09-26
Does reality even matter to the MAGA crowd any more?
Harris:
"And that is why last year we set an ambitious goal. Our nation will cut our greenhouse gas emissions in half by no later than 2030. And by no later than 2050, we will reach net zero emissions."
^ That's also a lie. The consequence of which is far more devestating than Drumph's fake Venezuelan machine guns.
Clearly, truth doesn't matter to the democrats either. Under Biden/Harris, we've now become the largest oil producer on the planet.
Harris, made a promise to further increase military spending, foreign military aid, and she's agreed to expanded fracking.
So, they say 1 thing, meanwhile, carries on capitalism as is, the imperialist burning and murdering continues.
You see, Harris and Trump, they're in the exact same business of Lying.
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They are going in with guns that are beyond even military scope, and they are taking over apartment buildings.
Another story based in truth
You are being pretty generous there.
Check out this gem by JD and let me know what "truth" you think it is based on:
"In particular, there’s evidence that the car seat rules that we’ve imposed — which of course, I want kids to drive in car seats — have driven down the number of babies born in this country by over 100,000."
Truth in so much as there were gang members brandishing rifles around an apartment building. But in Colorado seeing someone carrying a gun into their home is not at all out of the norm. Pretty much where the story begins and ends. I highly doubt they are even illegal immigrants, and not US Citizens who happen to have Venezuelan heritage, which really has nothing to do with anything.
Damn sure not a 'hostile takeover' of a city. That is fearmongering and idiotic.
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"While no one was watching almost 90 million shares of DJT changed hands today."
- T J Lord 2024-10-15
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There's a million ways to smoosh money around. Literally why churches still exist.
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I like this recent rally where Trump just stopped taking questions and danced geriatricly for 30 minutes to copyrighted music while intermittently pointing at the crowed.
You can see the entire audience bored and on their phones, and looking at each other shaking their heads like "WTF is going on?"
This is your guy, huh? You really think this is the best choice we have?
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You really think this is the best choice we have?
He is the same stupid ridiculous buffoon that we have been seeing on the newspaper racks at the supermarket line checkout for 30-40 years.
The astonishing thing is that a political party chose HIM to represent them on a ballot, and that he garnered any votes at all.
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He is the same stupid ridiculous buffoon that we have been seeing on the newspaper racks at the supermarket line checkout for 30-40 years.
The astonishing thing is that a political party chose HIM to represent them on a ballot, and that he garnered any votes at all.
Applies to all average human beings. We're really not that smart, it only looks ok when we're compared to pets.
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You really think this is the best choice we have?
He is the same stupid ridiculous buffoon that we have been seeing on the newspaper racks at the supermarket line checkout for 30-40 years.
I have to disagree. Trump is WAY more of an unhinged clown than any candidate I've ever seen be taken as seriously. It isn't even close. Dangerous as well.
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His economic platform is tax the rich less and add tariffs on imports from China. His plan to make everything more expensive for the average person and give those who already have too much, even more. It's wild that people don't understand that tariffs are not paid for by the country the are applied to, but rather the US importer importing the good from said country. They then pass the cost to the distributor, who passes the cost onto retail outlet, and then onto the people. Until the cost of importing goods is higher than the cost of producing said good domestically the tariffs will act as sales taxes for the general population.
Even if tariffs worked the way they think it does, do you think China (or any other country) would eat the cost to export and not raise their prices to offset the new tax? No shot these foreign manufacturing plants would take the economic hit and not find some way to offset the new "expense". It would just raise the price per unit of the good which then cost importers more to purchase/import each good into the US (see above).
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Your brain gets a disproportionately large cut of your body's operational sugars. ~33%.
Society is the body, the brain is the ruling class. It is up to the ruling class to decide what to cut/pinch/reduce.
We're at a stage in our evolution, where Neither the body, Nor the mind is evolved to deal with our SEEMINGLY temporarily limitless resources. And so this system begins to grow WASTEFUL like cancer and will bankrupt the ecosystem.
This is where we are. Famine/Mass-die-off is already occurring.
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What a guy!
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-amazed-that-harvey-weinstein-serial-sexual-abuser-got-schlonged_n_67127a1ce4b0e2b6e54bea7f (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-amazed-that-harvey-weinstein-serial-sexual-abuser-got-schlonged_n_67127a1ce4b0e2b6e54bea7f)
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What a guy!
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-amazed-that-harvey-weinstein-serial-sexual-abuser-got-schlonged_n_67127a1ce4b0e2b6e54bea7f (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-amazed-that-harvey-weinstein-serial-sexual-abuser-got-schlonged_n_67127a1ce4b0e2b6e54bea7f)
Fohat, 99% of the ultra wealthy/ politically connected are exactly like Harvey Weinstein.
There's minimal genetic difference between him and every other man on the planet.
When any male human attains the resources to operate without consequences. He turns into a Harvey Weinstein. The ones who don't are the exceptions.
Next time you see a rich old guy, > Harvey Weinstein.
Which emperor didn't keep a harem/wasn't a lecher? How come they won't release the Epstein case in full, who's being protected? How come the princes of England can just commit an Epstein in full, and suddenly not face extradition.
We only "sort of" live in a rule based society. Don't be too quick to point fingers, the only difference between you and a perceptually bad guy isn't morality, only fate.
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Look at 1:30 and 3:10 for the memorable stuff.
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How is Elon Musk, as a non US citizen blatantly tampering with the election with misinformation and offering bribes, not under investigation by the DOJ?
Is it really just, the more money you have you can get away with anything out in the open?
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That's exactly how human societies have always operated. Nothing's ever changed.
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WELL WE'RE ALL ****ED NOW I GUESS
It was fun while it lasted....
How is Elon Musk, as a non US citizen blatantly tampering with the election with misinformation and offering bribes, not under investigation by the DOJ?
Is it really just, the more money you have you can get away with anything out in the open?
Yes. Especially in capitalist extremist countries.
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WELL WE'RE ALL ****ED NOW I GUESS
It was fun while it lasted....
How is Elon Musk, as a non US citizen blatantly tampering with the election with misinformation and offering bribes, not under investigation by the DOJ?
Is it really just, the more money you have you can get away with anything out in the open?
Yes. Especially in capitalist extremist countries.
It's OK, Eat veggies.
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WELL WE'RE ALL ****ED NOW I GUESS
It was fun while it lasted....
How is Elon Musk, as a non US citizen blatantly tampering with the election with misinformation and offering bribes, not under investigation by the DOJ?
Is it really just, the more money you have you can get away with anything out in the open?
Yes. Especially in capitalist extremist countries.
It's OK, Eat veggies.
What's the point now, especially in the US? He's gonna turn the whole planet into a charcoal grill.
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What's the point now, especially in the US? He's gonna turn the whole planet into a charcoal grill.
Grilled veggie kebabs.
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WELL WE'RE ALL ****ED NOW I GUESS
It was fun while it lasted ....
blatantly tampering with the election with misinformation
For 45 years I have been continuously astonished at how short-sighted and narrow-minded US Republicans can be. Even my own brothers and sisters.
It is as if they cannot assemble even a basic understanding of the history and current events of the world - or even to recognize reality itself.
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I will say I do love whatever the hell is happening with my Crypto portfolio. A lot of new millionaires will be minted in the next few months.
But again, the richer you are the more money you make back. More investment, less risk, more return. Capitalism really is a kinda broken system.
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I suspect there's some people in the know that might be betting on a weird injection of bitcoin use in government because Elon-said-something.
To what extent is that going to happen.
/Not financial advice
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because Elon-said-something
The raw numbers that the incoming administration could generate from being focused on enriching itself and its cronies will be a spectacle rarely witnessed in the modern world.
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because Elon-said-something
The raw numbers that the incoming administration could generate from being focused on enriching itself and its cronies will be a spectacle rarely witnessed in the modern world.
Not true, all of that was already happening under Biden and every prior president.
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The raw numbers that the incoming administration could generate
that was already happening
We are going to find soon enough whether this is something new, or just more of the same.
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Every government is a kleptocracy, that is the only known true state of governments, its the ONLY way it can function.
A King can not rule alone, he has to pay his constituents, with WHAT?, the money he stole from the people.
You can observe this in nature. Wolf Packs have hierarchies, the top dog eats first. They all did roughly the same amount of WORK to catch the antelope. So the top-dog is exacting a TAX, he will be slightly stronger, more fit, and with this, he continues to oppress the rest of the pack.
In nature, there are constraints which remove bad DNA, the top-dog is continuously tested/challenged, he will be deposed and killed at some point.
This is true of human societies, but without the kleptocracy, NO order can be maintained whatsoever, and we devolve into much more scattered systems.
That merit based anarchy would be our next social evolution given adequate education and food supply, if climate change doesn't kill us, but we already know it's probably too late.
We just have to put up with capitalism as it rapidly unravels, then the radiation comes.
Enjoy the world now, Eat veggies, See what you think you need to see, it's always your last opportunity.
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NO order can be maintained
Modern social democracies have seemed to do pretty well in comparison to the others.
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I read that Muskaswamy points to veterans' health care as a top choice to eliminate to save money.
Horrible as that is, it might help in the long run if were to turn the military against the MAGAs - their teeth could be blunted quite a bit.
(Enlisted service that is, senior management already has a more judicious outlook.)
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I will say I do love whatever the hell is happening with my Crypto portfolio. A lot of new millionaires will be minted in the next few months.
But again, the richer you are the more money you make back. More investment, less risk, more return. Capitalism really is a kinda broken system.
Every time Bitcoin has a run up or hits some high mark it craters as they pull the rug. You should be selling, not buying.
I read that Muskaswamy points to veterans' health care as a top choice to eliminate to save money.
Horrible as that is, it might help in the long run if were to turn the military against the MAGAs - their teeth could be blunted quite a bit.
If they do that, conscription/drafts will be necessary and that will be what it requires to actually get attention.
They can't fill the ranks as it is between drugs, criminal records, obesity, politics, etc... and with threats by Trump to deploy on home turf, it's going to be even more difficult.
As for taking away V.A. care having an effect.
Few realize just how much of a ghost town the V.A. was for a while, Reagan killed of free V.A. care for life in the 80's and it was only Bush Jr who enabled some of us (combat vets only) to finally get care there (unless you were absolutely destitute). Biden added more (due to Gulf War Syndrome) and now it's very obvious who served in what war just by looking at people, the age difference is so great. So while you think this will sway people it really won't. It's not going to effect enough vets (vets are less than 1% of the population, and closer to 0.01% who actually use the V.A.), nor is there enough young adults capable and wanting to serve who will be swayed by enough by this to actually vote regarding it, unless it comes down to a draft, then suddenly people will care.
This is exactly why the V.A. was in the state it was in, it wasn't news worthy how rundown everything was and it didn't effect enough people, so it was an easy, safe place to make cuts. It still is. Truth is this country really doesn't care much about its vets, words and a few statues (for dead ones) is about the extent of it most of the time. And if Reagan got away with gutting it, Trump can.
BTW,
I find it funny how all these politicians tell you how bad socialized medicine is, when they themselves get it and I'm happy to report the V.A., at least mine, has been fantastic since they cleaned it up. I could only wish everyone got treated so well but it wasn't always that way.
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Isn't the stench of Drumpf a matter of common knowledge?
https://gettrumpfragrances.com/ (https://gettrumpfragrances.com/)
And then there is this:
https://x.com/TrumpGolfGame/status/1865816722969616623 (https://x.com/TrumpGolfGame/status/1865816722969616623)
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Really wonder if the Trump diaper smell thing is just a rumor.
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What an insult his inauguration is going to coincide with MLK Day.
I can't wait for all the "I'm not a racist, but..." and "A historical day to remember..." switcharoo jokes all the angry racists will drop that day
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The crazy runs deep.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/11/donald-trump-inauguration-jan-6-00193814 (https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/11/donald-trump-inauguration-jan-6-00193814)
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I do hope everyone here have deleted their Meta and X profiles and moved on to platforms that do not support hate speech and suppress free speech.
I would urge you speak with your friends, family, and colleagues to do the same as well. Don't be a point of data to add to their user base. There are a few great options out there that still have your interests in mind.
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I'm still on Twitter and plan to stay on there. I find it important not to close yourself off to what people you disagree with say, personally. Too many people only listen to news and opinions they agree with, while I think it's important to know WHY I disagree with my opponents.
That said, Twitter is a very depression cesspit by now.
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I'm still on Twitter and plan to stay on there. I find it important not to close yourself off to what people you disagree with say, personally. Too many people only listen to news and opinions they agree with, while I think it's important to know WHY I disagree with my opponents.
That said, Twitter is a very depression cesspit by now.
What percentage of posts in your feed are from friends and family, and how many are advertisements and targeted content?
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I do hope everyone here have deleted their Meta and X profiles
I created Facebook and Twitter accounts 20 years ago or whenever they were started.
Facebook I only use to follow a photographer friend who posts his photos there. I can count my contacts there on my fingers and toes.
Twitter was something that I never used but the account sat dormant until the kerfuffle with the Musk purchase started, and at that point I deleted it immediately.
And, as I recall, you had to make it "inactive" or something for a month before you could delete it entirely.
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I'm still on Twitter and plan to stay on there. I find it important not to close yourself off to what people you disagree with say, personally. Too many people only listen to news and opinions they agree with, while I think it's important to know WHY I disagree with my opponents.
That said, Twitter is a very depression cesspit by now.
What percentage of posts in your feed are from friends and family, and how many are advertisements and targeted content?
None, why?
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Can anyone please explain why companies are giving money to the Trump inauguration? I really do not understand their perceived obligation. Is there a law that they have to? And how is it determined how much the event will cost, and why is that not covered by the government? I'm quite confused.
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why companies are giving money to the Trump inauguration?
Because he demands it. He is actually calling rich individuals and corporations and telling them "We haven't gotten your inauguration donation yet."
It is pure grift and most of it will go into his pocket and not be spent on the inauguration at all. And he is tracking it like a hawk and knows exactly who has, and has not, coughed up and exactly how much.
That is his world. You don't think that he is sitting around pondering domestic and foreign policy matters, do you?
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why companies are giving money to the Trump inauguration?
Because he demands it. He is actually calling rich individuals and corporations and telling them "We haven't gotten your inauguration donation yet."
It is pure grift and most of it will go into his pocket and not be spent on the inauguration at all. And he is tracking it like a hawk and knows exactly who has, and has not, coughed up and exactly how much.
That is his world. You don't think that he is sitting around pondering domestic and foreign policy matters, do you?
The democrats do the exact same thing. They all got call centers where the office holders go and "grift" rich people for "donations".
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Can anyone please explain why companies are giving money to the Trump inauguration? I really do not understand their perceived obligation. Is there a law that they have to? And how is it determined how much the event will cost, and why is that not covered by the government? I'm quite confused.
They're bending the knee (I.E. covering their a$$).
This is a guy who doesn't play by the rules, likes revenge and is easily manipulated by money, get on his bad side and he's going to make it rough on your company. On the other hand, get on his good side and you can do almost anything you want business-wise and maybe even get him to mess with your competition. A million dollars is a drop in the bucket for these companies and could save their company billions later from baseless investigations and lawsuits.
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The democrats do the exact same thing. They all got call centers where the office holders go and "grift" rich people for "donations".
No, just no.
Calling and asking is one thing, calling and telling them it would be a shame if the FTC/SEC/DOJ/Congress/etc investigated your company but they can make it all go away for a small donation is not the same.
Stop with the both sides B.S., one side is very clearly playing by a different set of rules.
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The democrats do the exact same thing. They all got call centers where the office holders go and "grift" rich people for "donations".
No, just no.
Calling and asking is one thing, calling and telling them it would be a shame if the FTC/SEC/DOJ/Congress/etc investigated your company but they can make it all go away for a small donation is not the same.
Stop with the both sides B.S., one side is very clearly playing by a different set of rules.
Llann, this is not true, Politicians ALL demand compensation, the only difference here is demeanor. Trump just has an ugly personality about it.
Getting anything done in business involves grift of some sort. Just the other week, Tp4 was called out by another company with a warehouse problem, they had an improperly built drainage, and was getting ingress of groundwater, it's not severe, but it's clearly not regulation. WHY was Tp4 called, well, he's gud' @ recognizing the engineering requirements, but also, he can solve problems such as this much cheaper in other ways.
Calls up the right people, merely 6 benjamins into the right hands, and bam, approved.
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Calls up the right people, merely 6 benjamins into the right hands, and bam, approved.
Remember that TP4 lives in New Jersey.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/1/9/2296027/-Google-joins-tech-giants-throwing-money-at-Trump-s-inauguration (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/1/9/2296027/-Google-joins-tech-giants-throwing-money-at-Trump-s-inauguration)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil)
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https://geediting.com/mal-things-a-manipulator-will-do-when-you-call-them-out-on-their-behavior/ (https://geediting.com/mal-things-a-manipulator-will-do-when-you-call-them-out-on-their-behavior/)
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Can anyone please explain why companies are giving money to the Trump inauguration? I really do not understand their perceived obligation. Is there a law that they have to? And how is it determined how much the event will cost, and why is that not covered by the government? I'm quite confused.
They're bending the knee (I.E. covering their a$$).
This is a guy who doesn't play by the rules, likes revenge and is easily manipulated by money, get on his bad side and he's going to make it rough on your company. On the other hand, get on his good side and you can do almost anything you want business-wise and maybe even get him to mess with your competition. A million dollars is a drop in the bucket for these companies and could save their company billions later from baseless investigations and lawsuits.
I was afraid this was the answer. Donations apparently happen for every inauguration, but after just a little digging, even Trump's first term his administration requested them, and didn't demand. It seems like he is playing a completely different game this time. An openly corrupt and dangerous game.
With all these companies I'd have expected to be more liberal and fight his policies bending the knee like servants, I am even more worried about the next 4 years. If a billion dollar company cannot say no to him, who is left in his weight class to fight against his policies?
Outlook: Not good
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An openly corrupt and dangerous game.
With all branches of government under MAGA control, including the last-last-resort Supreme Court, they will be free of almost all guardrails.
Roberts and Barrett whimpering out the tiniest of protests last night was embarrassingly little far too late.
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With all branches of government under MAGA control, including the last-last-resort Supreme Court, they will be free of almost all guardrails.
Roberts and Barrett whimpering out the tiniest of protests last night was embarrassingly little far too late.
I'm not so sure it's MAGA.
Everyone assumes they removed the guardrails for Trump but they haven't really worked in his favor all that much. Yes, they've been working toward giving the presidency more power in expectation of a Republican president, but Herritage Foundation, which includes Thomas's wife (who picked all of Trump's Supreme Court justices) and Vance are playing a long game, they may have been using Trump to get Vance and therefore Herritage into that position. Trump cares about image, money and power, Vance is an ideologue and that's far more scary from a governing perspective.
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government under MAGA
using Trump to get Vance and therefore Herritage into that position.
That is absolutely right. But they will be happy to have Trump in place temporarily as an anger sponge.
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Hopefully the Drumpf-Musk honeymoon will be over soon.
PS - and how 'bout that Pete Hegseth bro?
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Hopefully the Drumpf-Musk honeymoon will be over soon.
PS - and how 'bout that Pete Hegseth bro?
That's not how money works.
The peasant educational system is a double edge sword. They become easier to manipulate, but have an unrealistic view of the economy and the scope of real resources.
Society NEEDED class warfare to maintain efficiency, but we're way past the planetary boundaries under that system, what we need now is AI-powered Communism.
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"A lot of people are going to get brutally scammed." - Paul Krugman 2025-01-15
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nobel-economist-paul-krugman-says-142648313.html (https://www.yahoo.com/news/nobel-economist-paul-krugman-says-142648313.html)
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I am just going to put this here and ask the question: But what about the kompromat?
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BBC News catches some very delusional quotes from Trump about Greenland.
"I think the people want to be with us," Trump said when asked about the island in the press room on board the presidential plane.
"I don't really know what claim Denmark has to it, but it would be a very unfriendly act if they didn't allow that to happen because it's for the protection of the free world," he added.
"I think Greenland we'll get because it has to do with freedom of the world," Trump continued.
"It has nothing to do with the United States other than that we're the one that can provide the freedom. They can't."
Despite Trump's apparent confidence, the prime ministers of Greenland and Denmark have both previously said the island was not for sale.
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I am just going to put this here and ask the question: But what about the kompromat?
To rattle his support base, I'd think it would have had to be irrefutable evidence of a serious crime that they would care about, on the level of murder, rape or treason. Everyone already knows that he is a scumbag: rapist, scammer, liar, adulterer, and is utterly incompetent for the job. His supporters just don't care.
Any videos of him with Russian prostitutes wouldn't change a thing.
To rattle the man himself, it would need to be something that makes him look weak ... even in his own eyes. If there is something that he is afraid of, it is looking weak.
Also, about the piece-of-pravda itself:
If you intend to convince a Russian ego, it is very incompetent to say that "they helped us win the Second World War".
Over in Russia, the war is known as "The Great Patriotic War" and they still have yearly parades celebrating the victory and commemorating the lives lost, to which the Russian leadership attend.
While the US lost soldiers, but only a handful of people on their own soil, for Russia it was a fight for survival: not just for soldiers but also the USSR/Russian populace. There are millions of individual stories about both military and civilian hardships during the war: For example the siege of Leningrad — which was where Putin was born and lived before he became President. They take it quite seriously. Trump's message can therefore be taken as being disrespectful.
A bad start to any talks, which, if Russia is going to concede anything, would have to be done in a way without Putin losing face.
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This is the collapse of the American Empire.
We are turning into Britain. An oligarchy of feeble morons.
China is already the new Made in Japan, and they will become the Next USA.
It's too bad in 20 years, Climate change kills everyone because people can't stop eating Hamburders.
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"I think the people want to be with us," Trump said when asked about the island in the press room on board the presidential plane.
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"I think Greenland we'll get because it has to do with freedom of the world," Trump continued.
Like a child he's just saying whatever he can to justify what he wants, though it's really not what he wants it's what Elon wants. Greenland has a LOT of lithium.
Pretty much everything he does is at the urging of a billionaire, much of which aligns with what his base wants but only because those billionaires convinced them it's what they also want.
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Pretty much everything he does is at the urging of a billionaire, much of which aligns with what his base wants but only because those billionaires convinced them it's what they also want.
I don't think there's any convincing in the sense that there's some sort of push-back disbelief.
In the same way You don't need to convince the store, that you want the food, you just pay them money, and they give it to you.
Trump administration, akin to all governments, do exactly that. Biden Trump Obama, they all SOLD FAVORS. That's really a fundamental function of "governance."
The Radical left will frame it as some sort of moral battle ground , but it's not, they are equally as amoral. Obama is equally culpable in the largest assassination / terrorist campaign committed by the united states against the middle east. Only, when WE do terrorism, we call it Liberation.
We killed 3 to 5 million people in Iraq, under the pretense of WMD which WE- KNEW they DID NOT HAVE. This is murder/genocide. How is it that 300million americans sit comfortably numb and not bothered by what just happened, fully documented, completely undisputed fact of history.. that happened Less than 10 years ago.
Same reason why we sit comfortably knowing, we genocided the Indians and took their stuff.
If you want to try Putin at the hague, Obama should be tried , Bush , Clinton, all of them. All presidents serve the American Imperialist Military Industrial Complex.
So, just becareful not to be so quick about your political stances, who's really the good guy in the game of thrones?
The answer is, it doesn't matter, not from our perspective because our distance from ANY seat of power is too far.
From OUR perspective, our only option is to steal food and work as little as possible to minimize the HARM that the war machine ultimatly imparts upon the Ecosystem.
And of course NONE OF THAT STUFF MATTERS.. IF we don't stop eating hamburders. We won't have a planet to happily genocide people on.
/Join Team BIG BROCOLLi
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Apparently egg prices will not be coming down, and from now on you should expect $10 eggs.
Usually inflation is gradual, but eggs went from $2.99 to $9.99 overnight and we are just supposed to accept that? I DO NOT ACCEPT IT!
WTF is wrong with everyone else they they keep letting these things happen and not doing anything? We need 10,000 more Luigis to set the status quo.
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Apparently egg prices will not be coming down, and from now on you should expect $10 eggs.
Usually inflation is gradual, but eggs went from $2.99 to $9.99 overnight and we are just supposed to accept that? I DO NOT ACCEPT IT!
WTF is wrong with everyone else they they keep letting these things happen and not doing anything? We need 10,000 more Luigis to set the status quo.
Accept it, stop eating eggs, NT of all people with the heart condition. You don't understand how bad it's going to get. Imagine walking to the mail box and feeling out of breath, That's the reality for millions of americans.
Eating unfertilized dead chicken abortions is cultural baggage. Recognize it for what it is, it's unhealthy and pretty gross. Be better.
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Apparently egg prices will not be coming down, and from now on you should expect $10 eggs.
Usually inflation is gradual, but eggs went from $2.99 to $9.99 overnight and we are just supposed to accept that? I DO NOT ACCEPT IT!
WTF is wrong with everyone else they they keep letting these things happen and not doing anything? We need 10,000 more Luigis to set the status quo.
Accept it, stop eating eggs, NT of all people with the heart condition. You don't understand how bad it's going to get. Imagine walking to the mail box and feeling out of breath, That's the reality for millions of americans.
Eating unfertilized dead chicken abortions is cultural baggage. Recognize it for what it is, it's unhealthy and pretty gross. Be better.
It's not about what you eat, never has been. It's all about quantity and quality. Avoiding PROCESSED foods and not overindulging in high-fat items is the key. No need to starve yourself or avoid what you love. Fat people cannot have just one spoon of ice cream or one cheeseburger a month, they have a mental empty hole to fill. Obesity is a psychological disease.
Eggs are all-nautral nutrient-rich whole foods that are a fantastic source of protein, vitamin A, D, and B12, iron, folate, and selenium. There is literally no singular replacement for them.
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It's not about what you eat, never has been. It's all about quantity and quality. Avoiding PROCESSED foods and not overindulging in high-fat items is the key. No need to starve yourself or avoid what you love. Fat people cannot have just one spoon of ice cream or one cheeseburger a month, they have a mental empty hole to fill. Obesity is a psychological disease.
Eggs are all-nautral nutrient-rich whole foods that are a fantastic source of protein, vitamin A, D, and B12, iron, folate, and selenium. There is literally no singular replacement for them.
Everything you've just said is incorrect, bro-science half truths.
Eggs are not natural foods for humans. Cholesterol damages the endothelial cells of vessel lining causing scaring which is the precursor of all atherosclerosis. Statistically, a single egg a day is equivalent to smoking 3 cigarettes.
You clearly possess those holes you've described, all concepts surrounding Lack of self control apply.
Eggs are not a high source of vitamin A, D, and B12, iron, folate, and selenium, relative to its caloric/cholesterol density.
Nutrient Rich on its own is meaningless marketing. Cement is a Nutrient Rich source of minerals. It's important to recognize your entire concept of nutrition is built on Industrial Advertising.
The average person knows NOTHING about nutrition beyond the parroted TV Ads and that thing their aunt said that one time on the toilet. .
Heart disease is like never having enough gas to get where you want to go. Only it's your body, and you want to climb stairs to use the bathroom, but you can't.
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How did you know I can only talk to my aunt while she's on the toilet?
She calls it her 'Oracle' it's a whole thing in the family. She almost got arrested holding a parent teacher conference over Zoom one time...
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It's not about dying, if you just died, that'd be ok, it's the unnecessary medication/ procedures/ Suffering. Eggs and Steak is hell on earth when the average american hits 50.
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Oh man, steak is so good. You are really missing out. Like a really high quality, perfectly cooked steak once every 9 months, I swear you will live longer.
The sheer amount of endorphins and satisfaction will counterbalance any short-term negative health effects.
I'm not a doctor, trust me.
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So, just becareful not to be so quick about your political stances[/b], who's really the good guy in the game of thrones?
The answer is, it doesn't matter, not from our perspective because our distance from ANY seat of power is too far.
It's this exact type of thinking that got us into the current mess we're in.
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It's this exact type of thinking that got us into the current mess we're in.
True that.
If you say that you can't see the difference, it means that you are blind.
Choosing the lesser of 2 evils means that you are not aiding and abetting the greater of 2 evils.
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A lot of people in my immediate surroundings are getting quite depressed from all the Trump stuff. Can't lie, it's affecting me a bit as well.
Blatantly pardoning violent insurrectionists is one of the worse ones. It's clear that he is willing and able to have armed militias do his bidding and pardon them at his whim - and doing the opposite with people who oppose him.
Worse though is his stance on international politics, with actual imperialist urges and threats of military conflict if allied nations don't relinquish sovereign territories to him. The amount of parallels with Hitler and Czechoslovakia are beyond counting by now.
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My nieces like me.
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A lot of people in my immediate surroundings are getting quite depressed from all the Trump stuff.
There's a spike in doctor visits for it here.
Going to be a long 4 years... I hope it's only 4 years.
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Going to be a long 4 years
I suspect that JDV will be serving at least half of that term.
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Trump is happy to spend $300 billion on a deportation program that will cripple US industries, but cannot lower the price of my eggs as he promised to do!
Clown.
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Plane crashes due to chaos sewn in government controlled agencies by the Trump administration
Trump: "This is the fault of DEI, dwarfs, and Obama!"
His actual reasoning why this disaster occurred. He is deranged and unfit for office.
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His actual reasoning
Yep, he is bat**** for sure.
Amid all the noise, I seem to have heard that it was an inexperienced helicopter crew training with night vision goggles. What could go wrong there?
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So the conspiracy gon' round is. Those russians were defecting to the democrats, one or more were kaygeebe operatives / handlers.
This premise is entirely plausible, but there are much easier ways to killz people without causing a fuss, unless that act itself was demonstrative of some-point.
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Is Trump is gutting the FBI because he is about to do some blatant and super illegal ****, and they would be the only ones who could potentially step in?
It could be very interesting to see the Sergent At Arms have to enact an unprecedented and historical arrest.
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Paul Krugman wonders on his Substack why Trump went so hard on the tariffs for Canada and Mexico and so “soft” on China.
So basically this is a slap on the wrist for an autocratic regime that is a dangerous rival and even potentially a military foe, versus a body blow to a democracy that is arguably our best ally.
Wait, it gets worse. China runs a large overall trade surplus, which isn’t always a bad thing but in this case does reflect China’s attempt to export its way out of the failure of its domestic policies. Canada runs roughly balanced trade.
Bottom line: I can’t think of a reason punishing Canada with tariffs, let alone treating our neighbor far more harshly than Trump is treating China, is in the national interest. Trump’s spokesperson says that it’s because of the fentanyl pouring across our northern border, which wouldn’t justify tariffs even if it were happening — which it isn’t.
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We can now see Tesla cars with bumper stickers saying "I bought this before we knew Elon Must was crazy" / "Sorry. I got this before I knew Elon Must was an a******". Several different kinds, actually.
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Paul Krugman wonders on his Substack why Trump went so hard on the tariffs for Canada and Mexico and so “soft” on China.
So basically this is a slap on the wrist for an autocratic regime that is a dangerous rival and even potentially a military foe, versus a body blow to a democracy that is arguably our best ally.
Wait, it gets worse. China runs a large overall trade surplus, which isn’t always a bad thing but in this case does reflect China’s attempt to export its way out of the failure of its domestic policies. Canada runs roughly balanced trade.
Bottom line: I can’t think of a reason punishing Canada with tariffs, let alone treating our neighbor far more harshly than Trump is treating China, is in the national interest. Trump’s spokesperson says that it’s because of the fentanyl pouring across our northern border, which wouldn’t justify tariffs even if it were happening — which it isn’t.
The Tariff won't do anything other than fill some money laundering buckets.
It has none of the foreign implications as described in the media from EITHER side. Canada can't divorce us, they're trapped with US husband wife beater.
From an environmental perspective, higher tariffs are better, but the carbon savings you get here pales in comparison to the Additional Military Spending.
So we're still going down hill.
The worst problem is no one is even talking about animal agriculture, the root cause of climate change when accounting for land-use opportunity cost..
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Haven't you heard? Mention of climate change has been purged from all government sites, so it is no longer an issue. We're saved!
Yeah, the Canada thing is just crazy. Beyond crazy. They've done nothing but be positive allies and strong trade partners. There is zero reason for this bull****.
A lot of speculation Trump and his cronies are pushing for a nationwide food shortage to enact a state of emergency where he can stay in office and circumnavigate the law more easily. This is becoming more likely each day.
We need more Luigi's, where are they? If I am this angry, there must be people more angry and desperate for change than I. Where the hell are they? DO SOMETHING!
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There is zero reason for this bull****.
In my darkest paranoia, I wonder whether Drumpf and the Muskrat will be able to dip their pump directly into the well of the US Treasury and suck money directly into their own private coffers.
In that scenario, tariff money that came in from the outside, directly into the Treasury, could be diverted and routed to be more quickly and efficiently siphoned out than some of the other funds.
Whatever else happened around it (ie increasing the pain and difficulty of the daily lives of a majority of Americans) would just be collateral damage.
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Why is fohat worried about something that was already happening, it'll happen at exactly the same rate, only into different bank accounts. The entirety of washington is a revolving door between corporate and politics. The best government money can buy.
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Holy ****ing ****, he may actually do it!
https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/02/02/this-needs-to-stop-now-elon-musk-confirms-radical-doge-us-treasury-plan/ (https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/02/02/this-needs-to-stop-now-elon-musk-confirms-radical-doge-us-treasury-plan/)
TL;DR Replying to X influencer Mario Nawfal who asked: "Should the Treasury be put on the blockchain," Musk replied: “Yes!”
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There's absolutely no difference operationally between what we have NOW, and block chaining it.
The economy is a made up model of what really happens, (tokenization of value) it doesn't become more or less made up, just because you add blockchains to it.
For example, to clean up a single forever chemical, would cost more money than the entirety of the economy. That's 1 chemical pollutant out of thousands.
So the ECONOMY as we know it is externalizing 99% of the cost of _Business_. THAT in itself is the root of the problem, no amount of blockchain is going to solve the fundamental death spiral we're in.. We only count the things we like, and disregard REALITY.
We LIVE in a world of PERVERSE INCENTIVES.
Dead trees are worth more than alive
Dead whales are worth more than alive
Dead turtles are worth more than alive
SICK -> Dying Humans are worth more than alive.
Is it any wonder that we're on the verge of the Cataclysm>>?
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https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02/04/us/trump-administration-rfk-jr-gabbard#trump-netanyahu-meeting-israel-gaza (https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02/04/us/trump-administration-rfk-jr-gabbard#trump-netanyahu-meeting-israel-gaza)
TL;DR
“The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too,” Mr. Trump said at an evening news conference. “We’ll own it and be responsible” for disposing of unexploded munitions and rebuilding Gaza into a mecca for jobs and tourism. Sounding like the real estate developer he once was, he vowed to turn it into “the Riviera of the Middle East.”
- New York Times 2025-02-04
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OMFG. The stupendous ignorance of that idiot is without bounds.
Expect massive criticism from world leaders the following week.
Expect massive protests outside US embassies today, and the following week.
Expect unrest, and danger for US citizens (and to some extent every white person) in the Middle East when we have seen steps towards this action happening.
If the US goes through with this, this could escalate to real danger.
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OMFG. The stupendous ignorance of that idiot is without bounds.
Expect massive criticism from world leaders the following week.
Expect massive protests outside US embassies today, and the following week.
Expect unrest, and danger for US citizens (and to some extent every white person) in the Middle East when we have seen steps towards this action happening.
If the US goes through with this, this could escalate to real danger.
- World leaders are exactly like Trump, they say things, and then sign whatever the corporations tell them to sign.
- There will always be someone protesting something
- Yup, Tp4 fully braced for more 9/11s, Moved out of the city.
- The only thing any singular human truly needs to understand is that Animal agriculture is the root cause to 95% of the world's problems.
- Eating 100% Veggie will fix nearly all of it.
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in the Middle East when we have seen steps towards this
My perspective is that the greatest divide is economic rather than racial (aka "religious" .... ).
I suspect that rich Muslims and rich Jews (and rich white people) have absolutely no problem co-existing, and that the oil-wealthy kings of the region would love to have only enough poor people in their countries to do the manual labor required to maintain their lifestyles.
TP4 will say that this is true globally, and he may be right. But with the population explosion of recent decades (world population has more than tripled in my lifetime) has created an imbalance that is not tenable.
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Going deeper, the core limitation is that consciousness happens on-top of real-hardware.
Consciousness is a model, like our economy. Its evolved task is to seek favorable conditions for the survival / replication of the "Bacterial Colony" which constitutes each human being.
Micro-organisms make up 3% of our mass, but in cell count, they outnumber human cells 10 to 1, these microorganisms are also the MAJORITY in diversity of DNA, of which are NONE-Human.
EVEN within our bodies, we are not wholly ourselves. You can argue each person is mostly NON-human.
Consciousness takes shortcuts. That's the only way it works within the hardware limits. So, we BELIEVE in lots of shortcuts about Who and What we are.
Hardware limits are pervasive at the human consciousness level, AS THEY ARE at the human-governmental-societal level.
The trouble of Modernity is that we devote consciousness to the Maintenance of EXTRAVAGANT EXCESS. Wars are not fought over NEEDS, they're fought over excess in all its forms, wealth(stuff), money(fiat), fame/esteem, power.
Human societies as most people understand them are an extremely shallow concept of reality.
A ruler does not rule, he's merely REACTING to the momentums around him so as to not be KILLED by it. Chinese idiom, The palace is its own ruler, The king merely plays his part.
At this point in our ecological juncture. We've maxed out on the externalized costs of our wants/needs. If we don't stop immediately, Nature will reboot.
Tp4 does not believe humans will make it. Short of alien involvement. Aliens who figured it out, before their cataclysm.
Locusts are not born to stop eating, maybe the few Crazy Defective locusts like Tp4, be like, Hai guys, I think we've eaten enough today, maybe we should let this here grass grow back a little, and then eat it in a couple days.
Then LocustP4 dies, because the other locusts ate everything that he was saving for tomorrow. Finally ALL locusts die as they exhaust the food supply.
As will all mankind perish as we exhaust the Ecology of Earth.
How remarkably stupid of humans, Our Epitaph, Cause of extinction, --Herbivores who refused to eat vegetables..
We're fast becoming the biggest damn joke in the Galaxy.
You' hear that one about the humans? What about the humans ? They went extinct because they wouldn't eat vegetables. What? Aren't they Herbivores?, YEA they were !!! HAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
There were these-guyzus called Trumps, and they just ate these things called hamburders until it got everyone killed...
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The stupendous ignorance of that idiot is without bounds.
These guys must also be proud of their leadership vision.
https://www.muslimnetwork.tv/muslim-leaders-call-for-boycott-of-harris-over-supporting-israel/ (https://www.muslimnetwork.tv/muslim-leaders-call-for-boycott-of-harris-over-supporting-israel/)
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Of course, Trumps words about Gaza has got massive criticism from around the world.
Right now, Trump's press secretary is in mitigation mode, trying to downplay and change the meaning of what Trump had said. It's laughable.
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The United states was going to support israel no matter what.
WHAT IS Israel. Land of the Jews, No it's not, it's a vassal state taken by foreign invasion/genocide that strictly genuflects to American Capitalist Rule.
The Jewish people are assuming their historically consistent position, as captains / subjugators, hand of the King, middle-east edition.
This might be a nice, enviable position when we the America King's doing well, and is powerful, but it's a stupidly DANGEROUS position when the King is SICK and no longer rules the world. Our America today can barely take care of the people at home. Homelessness, school shootings, tickytock, media poison, run-away pollution, unhinged capitalism, climate catastrophe.
If you take a look at the statistics/maps, for a large swath of Europe + middle east region, Islam is the 2nd most populous religion behind Christianity.
So, unless the Zionists believe they can kill them all by themselves, it only takes a tiny over-reach and they will get wiped.
The US will show up in the Newcycle in Support of Israel, but push comes to shove WE NO LONGER HAVE THE ABSOLUTE POWER we did post WW2 when we were the only technologically advanced nation with Super Weapons, AND, Effective DELIVERY of Super weapons (Bombers/logistics).
LOOK AT UKRAINE, We installed, supported Zelenskyy's whole regime, how's it going for them. Where are the American troops. Why couldn't we defeat the INFERIOR Russian Military.
Push comes to shove, Israel is very small, it is VERY easy to build Dirty-type WMDs to destroy such a place and make it virtually unlivable. Any one committed enough can build them. And they can do so at very low cost. It would not take very much to cripple a small country such as Israel.
If we wanted this to work, we should abolish all religion. That is the only way to maintain absolute American hierarchy.
Look at what China's been able to do. No religious bull****. Efficiency is through the roof.
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Re-watched this for the first time in some years. All the details are different, as are the players and the issues, but the underlying movement is horrifyingly similar to our situation today.
PS - Look for the cameos of Drumpf's mentor, Roy Cohn.
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People who protest need to realize how ineffectual and pointless it is. When you protest outside of whatever government or business building it does nothing but provide entertainment for those inside, you are a joke to them. You taking days off work to stand in the cold holding a sign in the dead of Winter makes your point of view lose credence and you look like a wacko. What valuable member of society has the time and patience to abuse themselves for a handful of reporters who will get a small blurb on page 12 that no one will read?
Enact change, don't waste time begging in the street expecting that to work. Stop talking and standing around. Do something.
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"In fact, since his second term began, Trump has only uttered the word “food” six times when speaking at a political rally or to reporters.
He hasn't said the word “eggs” since he was sworn in."
- Morgan Stephens 2025-02-10
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This guy is gonna kill everyone on the planet with his insane climate policies. Other world leaders are losing enthusiasm for climate policies as well now.
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This guy is gonna kill everyone on the planet with his insane climate policies. Other world leaders are losing enthusiasm for climate policies as well now.
The only climate policy that makes any difference is one's own policy to eat meat.
Nothing short of ending animal agriculture is enough.
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Other world leaders are losing enthusiasm for climate policies as well now.
I hope that people around the world understand that most of the 49% of American voters who put these monsters in control of our country are simply stupid and gullible, and that they fell for the greatest swindle in history.
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Other world leaders are losing enthusiasm for climate policies as well now.
I hope that people around the world understand that most of the 49% of American voters who put these monsters in control of our country are simply stupid and gullible, and that they fell for the greatest swindle in history.
Its a lot like if the EU voted on an EU representative and despite the UK, and 80% of other countries voting one way decade after decade, it boils down to Greece, Poland, and Italy flipping between Liberal and conservative parties every other cycle. The same states that voted for Biden, flipped their votes to Trump. Our federal govt is 100% picked by Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Those 3 states (generally) hold the power to elect our President.
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Our federal govt is 100% picked by Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Those 3 states (generally) hold the power to elect our President.
IDK if it's that simple, but that's Drug Addicts, morons, morons, in that order, so it can't be good.
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Our federal govt is 100% picked by Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Those 3 states (generally) hold the power to elect our President.
IDK if it's that simple, but that's Drug Addicts, morons, morons, in that order, so it can't be good.
Until a new state flips one way or the other, OR we change how we do our electoral collage, those 3 plus a few others to less importance, are the only path to victory. A republican will likely win in California in the same way Texas will never elect a democrat president.
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we change how we do our electoral collage
Then there is this: https://videopress.com/v/JgBYFHmS
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we change how we do our electoral collage
Then there is this: https://videopress.com/v/JgBYFHmS
It's not just the government.
It's the entirety of human imperialist culture.
Our concept of LIFE as human beings is to Be-as-selfish-as-humanly-possible.
No change to the organizational structure of the government will alter the course of humanity. The current CORE of mankind is rotten. We are Amidst EXTINCTION. The Anthropocene is happening as we speak.
The entirety of our economy is dedicated to Resource extraction, which is largely just Burning and Killing.
And we ONLY quantify that which we BURN and KILL. All other things, living things, the clean air, the clean water are Externalities. So if we do not quantify those things, We can not save them. This system we have can only produce a Singular-Outcome.
The core largely REWARDS selfish action. And those who get ahead in this system, further Alters the system to maintain that resource/power lead.
You can say, this process is a built in safety mechanism such that NO species can destroy the whole of the planet, the Diversity of genetics, trees, other animals, seeds, etc will remain to some degree, and HUMANITY was Always Destined to burn itself out.
Possibly. But people must recognize that this is not a democrat vs republican issue, it's not a US vs Russia thing. That is the only way Oligarchs see the world, MINE, and MINE, They are Sick, genetically speaking.
At our core, we are all Discendents of psychopathic Dictators.
Genghis, Alexander, these *******s were a cancerous anomaly. Psychopaths are anomalies. The amount of rape and pillage they did, approximately up to 10% of world population are their descendants.
Most likely we all have some % of their genes.
The worst news is that it is unlikely we can rise above our genes. So, once cancer takes root, that's the end for that organism.
Take solace in that Nature will persist even if Man can not..
Not saying don't try, but it's almost certainly too late.
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Fohat.dig is extremely polluted by social media. Social media which frames the world in good guys vs bad guys.
Relative to the ecosystem, and the 80 billion animals we slaughter each year, even though we are biologically Herbivores, There are only Bad guys.
If mankind can't be bothered to eat vegetables, this whole debate/life thing, just stop trying. There is no wealth safe from ecocide, whatever store of value or continuance one perceives in children, they're stranded assets.
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Humanity is largely like Hitler in the last days at the bunker, pushing around pieces on the board which no longer exist.
The only thing that can save mankind is to Eat 100% Veggies Immediately. It is in the interest of everyone and everything, EVEN if you're a dictator, FINE, be a dictator, but be a dictator that eats 100% Veggies, or there will be no world to dictate to..
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Eat 100% Veggies
I'd rather eat the rich
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Eat 100% Veggies
I'd rather eat the rich
Wouldn't help, New Rich will replace them.
People only understand eat the rich largely as, if I eat them, I will myself become rich, THIS IS TRUE, but then you will destroy the world all the same. At best, you can be temporary king of the Burning House everyone's in. Ashes all the same.
Eat veggies.
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Other world leaders are losing enthusiasm for climate policies as well now.
I hope that people around the world understand that most of the 49% of American voters who put these monsters in control of our country are simply stupid and gullible, and that they fell for the greatest swindle in history.
I think so, or at least I do. But that doesn't really matter I'm afraid, in a first-past-the-post system :( . The result is the same as if everybody voted for him.
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I think so, or at least I do. But that doesn't really matter I'm afraid, in a first-past-the-post system :( . The result is the same as if everybody voted for him.
Democracy is mathematically impossible. Everyone has seen the video, well, edumacated people at least.
Governance isn't the problem. It's Culture. Look at our media, our games, books, movies, music.
Sex, Killing, Gluttony. Our entire way of life is just variations on those 3 themes. Humanity is doomed because our culture is cancerous.
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Eat 100% Veggies
I'd rather eat the rich
Wouldn't help, New Rich will replace them.
People only understand eat the rich largely as, if I eat them, I will myself become rich, THIS IS TRUE, but then you will destroy the world all the same. At best, you can be temporary king of the Burning House everyone's in. Ashes all the same.
Eat veggies.
You do not understand the concept here. Fear of losing everything is the only language they understand, because the only thing they care about is their personal wealth and amassing more. You really think if 2 people walk into a room and their heads roll out, the next person in line is going into that room? **** no.
Being ultra wealthy and selfish should be a risk to your personal health, and it is our duty to put that fear into their hearts for the sake of humanities future.
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The result is the same as if everybody voted for him.
This is the horrifying tragedy of it all.
Our system of government has all these little sub-system "winner takes all" gotchas that can accumulate into a result that is not at all what the majority of the population wants and needs.
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You do not understand the concept here. Fear of losing everything is the only language they understand, because the only thing they care about is their personal wealth and amassing more. You really think if 2 people walk into a room and their heads roll out, the next person in line is going into that room? **** no.
Being ultra wealthy and selfish should be a risk to your personal health, and it is our duty to put that fear into their hearts for the sake of humanities future.
Fear of losing everything is the only language YOU-understand too.
If you eat the rich. You will replace them, and do the exact bad things they did. You have not addressed the CORE problem which is Eating Veggies.
Eating veggies, no one needs to BE RICH, ever again.
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I think "rich" isn't even the issue. It's when the rich use their rich to twist reality and bend laws to suit them, while taking more than can be justified while telling the poor they are the problem. I have never had an issue with a person who works at the company they started/are at who puts in an honest day and reaps rewards. What I take issue with is the rich who change local/state/federal law to allow them to exploit average people for financial gain/political power. I also take issue with the rich who decide because they "own" something, they should receive all proceed, despite putting in no work/labor themselves. If you are a professional vacationer who complains about lack of profit/cost of labor, but don't actually work a full week at the company, your complaints will fall on deaf ears.
Elon is the perfect example. He somehow has time to run a govt agency, also lead a space transport company, and an EV company that also does battery and solar solutions, also a company that makes dumb products for tech bros, and at the same time be rank 1 in the US for a video game. But gets pissy when a judge doesn't think he deserves a payout of an additional $56 billion, with a b dollars for his "work" at Tesla.
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Goes without saying, being rich does not make you inherently evil. It's not a blanket statement, I am expecting you all to use your brains and logic to understand what specific rich people and behaviors I am talking about. You just can't expect people to use their brains anymore, everyone takes everything at face value with zero self-reflection or research. Which is exactly what the WRONG types of rich people are betting on by controlling the news and information.
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I am reading Isaacson's book about him (Musk) now, about halfway through.
He really is all those things, and more. He is utterly without empathy or sympathy, truly more animal than human. All the harm he does is merely collateral damage in his quest for control of the future.
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Yeah, Baby, Yeah!
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-napoleon-quote-rod-steiger-b2699314.html (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-napoleon-quote-rod-steiger-b2699314.html)
Sweet!
https://tenney.house.gov/media/press-releases/congresswoman-tenney-moves-make-president-trumps-birthday-federal-holiday (https://tenney.house.gov/media/press-releases/congresswoman-tenney-moves-make-president-trumps-birthday-federal-holiday)
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I mean who builds a World Trade Centre in the path of hijacked planes anyway? I could've settled this with no loss of buildings at all!
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I could've settled this with no loss
It must be even harder for non-Americans to understand than it is for us, but there are literally millions of people here who truly and profoundly believe that whatever comes out of his mouth is the unvarnished truth.
And believe the corollary - that anyone who says otherwise is "just plain wrong" ....
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I could've settled this with no loss
It must be even harder for non-Americans to understand than it is for us, but there are literally millions of people here who truly and profoundly believe that whatever comes out of his mouth is the unvarnished truth.
And believe the corollary - that anyone who says otherwise is "just plain wrong" ....
Not gonna lie, it is a somewhat surreal experience, yes.
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This is the 3rd story in as many days I have read about an arrest made for someone expressing a negative opinion about the Trump administration.
This is a very dangerous trend people need to be paying attention to. Free speech and expression is exactly that, not living in fear of retaliation by expressing your views.
Some sick **** going on.
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I could've settled this with no loss
It must be even harder for non-Americans to understand than it is for us, but there are literally millions of people here who truly and profoundly believe that whatever comes out of his mouth is the unvarnished truth.
And believe the corollary - that anyone who says otherwise is "just plain wrong" ....
I'm American and I don't even believe that.
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You're talking about the species that CRUCIFIED Jesus Christ, for being vegan. Then continued to pervert Christianity to sell blessings on sacrificial animals FOR PROFIT.
Why is anyone surprised.
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wat
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Republicans try to mix religion and politics. Like oil and water but without any emulsifiers available.
TP4 is pointing out that Jesus would be appalled to see what contemporary American "Christians" are doing in his name.
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Republicans try to mix religion and politics. Like oil and water but without any emulsifiers available.
TP4 is pointing out that Jesus would be appalled to see what contemporary American "Christians" are doing in his name.
Jesus was an actual Vegan, and that's why he died.
Religion already had within its grasp, 100% Veggie, which would rectify nearly everything wrong with mankind.
But of course, we all know the story, The meat-eaters won, Paul specifically, and they hung Jesus Vegan Christ on the Crucifix. After which, they proceeded to cook the books, and went with the narrative, MANKIND is the center of God's Universe, All the animals are here for you to enslave and butcher and eat.
The Holy Temple's main Revenue at around this time period was the Selling/Trading/ Butchering of Sacrificial animals. Priests were up to their knees in a River of blood. Well documented. It was a non stop kill fest all day long on temple grounds.
Jesus Died for our Sins, That Sin was Animal Agriculture, Greed and Slaughter.
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“Exclusive: US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources.
U.S. negotiators pressing Kyiv for access to Ukraine's critical minerals have raised the possibility of cutting the country's access to Elon Musk's vital Starlink satellite internet system, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Ukraine's continued access to SpaceX-owned Starlink was brought up in discussions between U.S. and Ukrainian officials after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy turned down an initial proposal from U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, the sources said.”
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-could-cut-ukraines-access-starlink-internet-services-over-minerals-say-2025-02-22/ (https://www.reuters.com/business/us-could-cut-ukraines-access-starlink-internet-services-over-minerals-say-2025-02-22/)
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“Exclusive: US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources.
U.S. negotiators pressing Kyiv for access to Ukraine's critical minerals have raised the possibility of cutting the country's access to Elon Musk's vital Starlink satellite internet system, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Ukraine's continued access to SpaceX-owned Starlink was brought up in discussions between U.S. and Ukrainian officials after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy turned down an initial proposal from U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, the sources said.”
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-could-cut-ukraines-access-starlink-internet-services-over-minerals-say-2025-02-22/ (https://www.reuters.com/business/us-could-cut-ukraines-access-starlink-internet-services-over-minerals-say-2025-02-22/)
Short term, This is the best thing for the Ukrainian people, Rulers come and go, farmers are still farmers, but they're LIVING farmers, not Dead Farmers, who died for no reason, unless an arbitrary line that humans imagined on the ground is a good enough reason to die for, Rulers think so, farmers though? farmer's children?.
The current Ukrainian oligarchs who will get the high rise window treatment, because that's how Pu7in is.
LONG TERM, Eastern Europe is going into chaos. We are already seeing large discussions on them building up/buying Nuclear arsenal. WHICH IS STUPID as you can't use them against Russia. It would also do nothing to Deter Russian Invasion.
The problem with nuclear weapons is No One can reasonably use them, it's suicide. So you either live under dictatorship, or you go out heroic, and suicide everyone in your country.
Look at it this way, Does any president speak for the entire nation? Would you rather our president suicide America, just to take out Russia? Or vice versa, would the Russian people want Pu7in to suicide Russia just to take out America?
You see how Super Weapons don't actually do anything, other than increase pollution and our own existential risk when the inevitable Containment failure happens.
The closest USA ever came to using a nuclear missile, was Nuking itself when our own missile silo blew up, due to a fallen repair nut which punctured the oxygen tank of the missile.. Thankfully the warhead did not trigger. They found it in a ditch blown yards away. Bill Clinton's State at the time.
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When Trump dies of a massive heart attack in office, it would make me sooooo happy if everyone in the country wore this jacket:
(https://i.imgur.com/TcT6Vf0.jpeg)
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I hear you, but "not caring" is far from the reality. EVERYBODY would "care" although probably in very different ways.
I used to think that Bowman (aka JDVance) would oust Drumpf quickly, but now I realize that the longer he is in, and the more damage he does quickly, the easier it will be for the successor to distance himself from the blame.
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Welp, I guess we can now add racketeering, extorion and war profiteering to the list (pretty sure breaking promises was already on it).
I can't even imagine what a US WW2 vet would be feeling right now, to go from a country that was unanimously considered the "good guy" to the direct opposite. Imagine Roosevelt, right in the middle of the war, doubling back on his word and openly joining Hitler, then extorting France and the UK.
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I can't even imagine what a US WW2 vet would be feeling right now
I hear you. Growing up in the 1950s, for most of the men in my life WW2 was the defining event of their lives. My father and uncle were in the Army Air Force, and although my father was never in much actual danger, my uncle was a true hero in some of the worst conflicts of the war, and won several medals for outstanding bravery in the Mediterranean theater. He came very close to losing his life many times.
Seeing January 6th rioters carrying swastika flags inside the US Capitol building would have been beyond traumatic for them.
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Seeing January 6th rioters carrying swastika flags inside the US Capitol building would have been beyond traumatic for them.
Oh man, I didn't even think of that one. Yeah, I can't even imagine how that would hit.
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Seeing January 6th rioters carrying swastika flags inside the US Capitol building would have been beyond traumatic for them.
Oh man, I didn't even think of that one. Yeah, I can't even imagine how that would hit.
Some, either ignore or conveniently forgot the context of the preceding year. The riots, attacks, and destruction on both private and public property (including federal buildings, police stations, etc.) set the stage where almost no lawlessness from the left was prosecuted. While I absolutely condemn some of the illegal activity on Jan 6th, I believe the prior year’s assault on the law was a much greater attack on the country and its constitution.
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We have the first unvaxxed death of a child from measles in Texas in less than a month of the new administration.
How many children will RFK kill this time?
also: the name of this thread is stupid
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the name of this thread is stupid
And toilet paper for tissue isn't?
Sometimes there is an advantage to obscuring things from searches.
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fohat.dig has been moved from do-not-kill list, to maybe kill list 50/50. :D
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Seeing January 6th rioters carrying swastika flags inside the US Capitol building would have been beyond traumatic for them.
That should have been traumatic for every U.S. citizen.
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"Donald Trump and company are conducting a coordinated, strategic attack on the government to convince the American people that the government is fundamentally incapable of doing anything good for the American people.
And why is that? Because the government is a threat to the people who own this country: billionaires, venture capitalists, CEOs, and so forth. The government holds these people accountable and is therefore a threat to the owners' ultimate goal: higher profits and continued political control of the country.
The government also does good work for no profit, fostering a sense that "we're in this together". This is dangerous to the owners. They want common people to remain divided by seeing each other as competition. They want people to worship personal success above all else, because that mindset legitimizes billionaire rule.
- Matthew Adarichev 2025-02-26
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Fohat, you are misunderstanding something dire.
The democrats, radical left, you so vehemantly identify with. They are Radically Violent.
Biden's entire history of affiliations/governance stems from the post war era, where the concept of "Full Spectrum Dominance" (military) was the MAIN aim of the United States. It is little more than the idea that America MUST have 100% security by amassing the capability to WIN WARS in every possible theater of operation. Post WW2 was the dawning of the AMERICAN EMPIRE, the largest expansion of our own Imperialism. No different than all the Failed-Imperialisms/States of the past. Biden is knee deep/Center of that.
This Atlanticist doctrine, which supposidly gives America security, comes at the expense of Everyone else. Our missiles go up Everywhere, on Every Continent, Everyone else is LESS safe. Of course we LIE and say, but we're peace loving, ARE WE, our history paints a very different picture, Our nation is by far the most violent war mongering Nation in the History of mankind.
NOW, Post ww2, when America was the only realistic nuclear power with the production/delivery capabilities, The idea, of Full Spectrum, kind-of made sense.
Is that still true today, NO. Rickshaw India can DESTROY America and THE WORLD, in all of 2 Hours.
But the Democrat "War Lords" continued to operate under this doctrine for the last 70 years, it is the ONLY-mode of American Foreign Policy. Our entire outward face is , NO NO , You have no say in this, WE RUN THIS WORLD..
Look at what Biden has done, Alienated the ENTIRE global south+Russia , China, India, etc. What is the Global South. Well, they have 50% of Fossil Energy, roughly 85% of the World's Population. It's gotten so bad, they've decided to Pursue BRICS, at the highest level of commitment.
The United States has NEVER EVER been as Isolated as it has under Biden/ Democrat leadership.
TRUMP, is an *******. YES, but you know what, he was STILL the BEST CHOICE for an American President, because Continued Democrat WarLordism would've destroyed the world Far Sooner.
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Of course, we must qualify, that Trump in the current landscape only represents a short-term reprieve from the Biden's Ultimate Violence solution.
Long run, the Same capitalistic imperialist structures are pervasive in ALL creeds of modern governance.
In Tp4's projections, these "Rulers" will almost certainly get us all killed.
Even if 1-demensionally, just the fact that NO ONE is talking about 100% Veggie, which is the ONLY technology that can sequester the amount of carbon we need to sequester in the 50 year domain.
The opportunity cost alone of using 43% of earth's dry surface to graze+feedcrop animal agriculture, is 3 Trillion Trees, representing 3X the amount of atmospheric carbon release since the human fossil fuel revolution.
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Further clearance. Tp4 is not saying either Trump or Biden are EVIL people.
They are merely carrying the MOMENTUM of incomplete ideas into a world that no longer has the same Context.
Imperialist-Capitalism, the idea of compounding interest, exponential growth obligations/ fiduciary responsibility, PERVERSE incentives, has NO PLACE in a world of very real, very limited Resources/Ecological capacity.
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identify with
For the record, for the past 2/3 of my life I have been a registered Independent, after being born and raised as a Republican.
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identify with
For the record, for the past 2/3 of my life I have been a registered Independent, after being born and raised as a Republican.
Fine, Fohat, but airing all your ill on Drumph is not the correct way to expound the issue.
Either dooffusees could die tomorrow, and you'd get little Biden and little Drumph within the very next 15 minutes
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All we can do is to bend the arc of history toward justice, and any vote not cast for a serious contender is wasted.
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All we can do is to bend the arc of history toward justice, and any vote not cast for a serious contender is wasted.
Fohat, is clearly what they call Left Brain dominant. This is characterized by the propensity for systematization of Non-Linear systems.
There are no right answers, Neither Biden nor Drumph is more right. In fact they're almost certainly Both wrong.
Voting is unfortunately not likely to get us out of extinction on this. It is not the case that the average population possesses the knowledge/ competence to steer mankind. Especially not so in the time-frame we have left.
Democracy has only ever been an experiment, and not a good one, because we never did the Spiritual work of enlightening all the Individuals who would be voters.
Ask a bunch of peasants what they want, their answer is Cocacola, Fried Chicken, and Porn. And That's the only world we've ever invested in as far as Industry is concerned.
Radical improvements of the human psyche has never existed outside of the fringe, who by mere chance stepped out of that shared-Delusion, and most not totally.
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Fohat, you are misunderstanding something dire.
The democrats, radical left, you so vehemantly identify with. They are Radically Violent.
(https://cdn.geekhack.org/Smileys/solosmileys/laugh.gif)
What can you expect from a guy who can barely tell the two parties apart.
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Seeing January 6th rioters carrying swastika flags inside the US Capitol building would have been beyond traumatic for them.
That should have been traumatic for every U.S. citizen.
Yet it clearly isn't. It's one of the things that baffles me most, frankly. There was an actual attempt at a coup d'etat where armed insurrectionists stormed the capitol building with government officials having to run for their lives, and most people just pretend like this isn't a significant thing.
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most people just pretend
Not really "most"
Bush Jr in 2004 was the ONLY election in decades where the Republican candidate for president received a majority of the popular vote.
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most people just pretend
Not really "most"
Bush Jr in 2004 was the ONLY election in decades where the Republican candidate for president received a majority of the popular vote.
Exactly. Its 3-5 sates who flip flop that decide the election. My state has voted solid red. The last time my state voted for a democrat was 1964. And the time before that is 1932/36 for Roosevelt. There are 100,000+ votes for democrats that are not relevant because my state is winner take all. So because Republicans get more votes in my state, my vote is not impactful.
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most people just pretend
Not really "most"
Bush Jr in 2004 was the ONLY election in decades where the Republican candidate for president received a majority of the popular vote.
Exactly. Its 3-5 sates who flip flop that decide the election. My state has voted solid red. The last time my state voted for a democrat was 1964. And the time before that is 1932/36 for Roosevelt. There are 100,000+ votes for democrats that are not relevant because my state is winner take all. So because Republicans get more votes in my state, my vote is not impactful.
What I mean is that it's not considered a big enough deal. This should have been a total outrage to anyone regardless of political agenda and gone down in the books as one of the darkest moments in US political history. As in, on JFK assassination level.
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It's important to understand how this happened. Income inequality, which the ruling class, and middle class(captains of subjugation) without a breath gorged themselves on, CREATED the peasant class.
Then the peasants revolt. /Surprised Pikachu
It hardly matters what banner the revolt flew under, the underlying reason is NOT at all the Banner, it's the Inequality.
Inequality, means they're poorer, dumber, meaner, more arrogant, more selfish.
So, a rich person, would say, look how uncultured and unwashed these untouchables are.
YET, the rich person sits on all the resources, enforces and extracts all the labor, and points at the untouchables, THEY, THEY are the problem. The people with no free time, no education, no generational wealth, lives in a food deserts, has poor health, lack of medical care, lack of clean water, moldy housing
If you go to a city, the vast majority of housing are merely Sheds for Slaves. Overpriced hovels/ boxes to store unloved human beings in. These aren't communities, it's largely a slave pen.
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Just watched Zelensky's meeting with Trump on dat utub.
Sigh.. Hard to watch adults talk like children. And I'm not referring to just Drumph/Vance.
Groups of fleas bickering over who owns the cat they live on. There's never any true progress regardless WHO WINS such an argument because the TRUTH is, the fleas don't own the cat, but we're doing a very good job of nearly killing it.
Ukrainians do not own the land of Ukraine, any more than Indians owned north America. In the game of thrones, we're playing for conquest devoid of the larger context of wisdom and purpose.
These malformed minds are throughly unaware of the ultimate big picture. Kill the cat, it won't matter who's got it in writing, 1x dead cat owner.
Their frustration is not with the cat, nor each other. Their frustration stems from a critical human misunderstanding of what this modern development of Sovereignty even is.
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it's not considered a big enough deal.
Look at it in the perspective of our freakishly arcane and dysfunctional political system
Trump was impeached for inciting the riot (but understand that in this case "impeachment" is similar to what is generally called "indictment" in other criminal cases). A "conviction" comes via another proceeding.
In January 2021 the House of Representatives impeached him, but then the Senate failed to convict him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_impeachment_of_Donald_Trump (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_impeachment_of_Donald_Trump)
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Even on Fox News threads I see people calling Trump and Vance's actions today a complete embarrassment. Not even half a year in and they are already pushing their voters away. The main argument MAGA's have is "What? You don't want peace?" which they immediately get eviscerated for in the comments.
Will our government step in and put this traitor in prison where he belongs, or will it come down to pushing the people to their limits and forcing rebellion? Those are the only two futures I can see. Eventually they will overstep so many boundaries they will turn 90% of their base against them. This is already happening at a record pace, which is the only comfort I can take is the deep regret Trump voters are feeling at this moment.
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it's not considered a big enough deal.
Look at it in the perspective of our freakishly arcane and dysfunctional political system
Trump was impeached for inciting the riot (but understand that in this case "impeachment" is similar to what is generally called "indictment" in other criminal cases). A "conviction" comes via another proceeding.
In January 2021 the House of Representatives impeached him, but then the Senate failed to convict him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_impeachment_of_Donald_Trump (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_impeachment_of_Donald_Trump)
You have to really observe the concept of justice, and resolve that there is no such thing. What difference would it make if they put an "official" behind bars.
The crime of our nation for butchering 3-5 million innocent people in the middle east.
How can justice ever be calculated, what concept of Equity or Reparation can adequately account for such a Sin?
Whatever you think you know about the system, of justice, of even basic decency, it's a ridiculous oversimplification.
What would Drumph behind bars atone for exactly? Just to make us feel better? What does that actually fix?
The greatest CRIME here, is the selfish refusal to EXTEND our empathy. Not only to other humans, but more importantly the Animals.
6 million jews died in the holocaust,
80 Billion animals die a year, /365/24, A holocaust every 40 minutes.
The business of mankind is an inane burning / killing machine.
Our perspectives are so incredibly narrow, because the machine wave only reflects the whim of 1 species.
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Even on Fox News threads I see people calling Trump and Vance's actions today a complete embarrassment. Not even half a year in and they are already pushing their voters away. The main argument MAGA's have is "What? You don't want peace?" which they immediately get eviscerated for in the comments.
Will our government step in and put this traitor in prison where he belongs, or will it come down to pushing the people to their limits and forcing rebellion? Those are the only two futures I can see. Eventually they will overstep so many boundaries they will turn 90% of their base against them. This is already happening at a record pace, which is the only comfort I can take is the deep regret Trump voters are feeling at this moment.
Drumph and Vance are **** heads, but they ARE in fact SAVING UKRAINE.
You can say anything you want about their other bone-headedness, but on this 1 issue. They're saving those farmers, those dock workers, those kids, the Ukrainian PEOPLE..
If the Biden administration insisted on continuing to support the Zelensky camp, they would all merely continue to die pointlessly. What they're defending is not freedom, they are defending an excess of power of a few. The Sovereignty of their own Oligarchs, sponsored by Democrat warlords.
The Urkainian people have no sovereignty. Do you even own anything? You only "own" something if you continue to pay property tax/ rent.
So, no, we're all slaves. Why should ANY slave die for the master, what good reason could there possibly be?
You can even argue, that the temporary De-escalation has saved the world, as unlikely and ridiculous as is the phrase, Donald Trump, the coward, the traitor, the rapist, the moron, SAVED Planet Earth for next 10-15 years.
Addendum, He's going to get us all killed, but we could've died alot sooner and more likely under Biden..
People fail to understand that Nuclear war, ends in 2 hours. That's it. No retrys. That is the END of humanity.
No one is going to survive. The bunkers are useless, even those $50million silos are make believe death traps.
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it's not considered a big enough deal.
Look at it in the perspective of our freakishly arcane and dysfunctional political system
Trump was impeached for inciting the riot (but understand that in this case "impeachment" is similar to what is generally called "indictment" in other criminal cases). A "conviction" comes via another proceeding.
In January 2021 the House of Representatives impeached him, but then the Senate failed to convict him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_impeachment_of_Donald_Trump (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_impeachment_of_Donald_Trump)
Yeah I know all that, but I feel like the failure to impeach, or the people to universally cry out for his imprisonment, shows that this is a unilateral, not a bipartisan sentiment.
Let me give an example of what I mean; in 1605 Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the British Parliament. To this day, the British people yearly burn effigies of him on the 5th of November. In 1672 a Dutch lynch mob maimed and partially ate the then-equivalent of the prime minister and his brother because they were suspected of trying to usurp power from the prince. Caesar was stabbed to death by the senate and his own son because he undermined the Roman structure of power by refusing to give back his powers to the state after the state of war had elapsed. Something very similar happened to Catilina when they discovered his plot to assume power. Etc. etc.
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Yeah I know all that, but I feel like the failure to impeach, or the people to universally cry out for his imprisonment, shows that this is a unilateral, not a bipartisan sentiment.
There is some talk behind the scenes that Biden's War was breaking the bank, and that's been the real reason the institutions changed their allegiance.
So, it's kind of like the same reason Vietnam ended, it became too expensive.
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Let me give an example of what I mean; in 1605 Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the British Parliament. To this day, the British people yearly burn effigies of him on the 5th of November. In 1672 a Dutch lynch mob maimed and partially ate the then-equivalent of the prime minister and his brother because they were suspected of trying to usurp power from the prince. Caesar was stabbed to death by the senate and his own son because he undermined the Roman structure of power by refusing to give back his powers to the state after the state of war had elapsed. Something very similar happened to Catilina when they discovered his plot to assume power.
I am not entirely sure that I am seeing your point, but regardless of whether the majority of the people value honesty and abide by the rule of law, a dishonest outlaw minority can gain an advantage.
Trump has said (I can't call up the source at the moment, but it may have been in the Michael Cohen (Trump's closest friend and most trusted confidant) book) that laws and honesty are for suckers, and that you can use their own moral beliefs to handicap them.
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Let me give an example of what I mean; in 1605 Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the British Parliament. To this day, the British people yearly burn effigies of him on the 5th of November. In 1672 a Dutch lynch mob maimed and partially ate the then-equivalent of the prime minister and his brother because they were suspected of trying to usurp power from the prince. Caesar was stabbed to death by the senate and his own son because he undermined the Roman structure of power by refusing to give back his powers to the state after the state of war had elapsed. Something very similar happened to Catilina when they discovered his plot to assume power.
I am not entirely sure that I am seeing your point, but regardless of whether the majority of the people value honesty and abide by the rule of law, a dishonest outlaw minority can gain an advantage.
Trump has said (I can't call up the source at the moment, but it may have been in the Michael Cohen (Trump's closest friend and most trusted confidant) book) that laws and honesty are for suckers, and that you can use their own moral beliefs to handicap them.
The scope of mankind's empathy is at its limit.
When they say, laws and honesty are for suckers, it's really just a cap on how large is the "in group".
You'd work hard to feed Your old mother, but not Jeremy's mother. But you've got all the food (by luck, geography, climate), and Jeremy's mother is starving, so Jeremy comes to your house first with an empty bowl, then with weapons, demanding food.
The wrinkle here is, WE SHOULD FEED ALL OLD MOTHERS. That's what NO "in-group" with all the food/resources wants to do.
By not extending that empathy, we create the Oligarchs, the Ruling class. All their mothers are fed, but not the blacks or latinos or the other untouchables.
This goes on and on, until the peasants revolt, and FOR REALS, Eat the rich.
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this is a unilateral, not a bipartisan sentiment.
It seems that Drumpf is still hurting from having deep "stains on his official record" and that his (on camera) tantrum and ridiculous bullying of Zelensky yesterday was an attempt (inside his twisted mind) to whitewash his first impeachment, which had resulted from his thwarted bid to have Zelensky bear false witness against Biden.
Dangling what looked like a reasonable "deal" in front of Zelensky's face and then snatching it away was typical of his petty cruelty.
No doubt he imagines that freeing the convicted criminals from the Capitol riot has already annulled his 2nd impeachment.
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There's no deal. We already lost the war against Russia. It's just surrender. The Mineral rights is entirely window dressing to save face.
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Very strong words from European prime ministers and majority leaders today about Trump's and Vance's treatment of Zelensky.
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The only way Europe can help Ukraine is by letting them surrender quickly. Then send money for infrastructure.
But no, they'd rather talk about 3% GDP weapons contracts. Ukraine had all the weapons the whole world can cram in there, and they still lost.
France was the only country doing right by strongly suggesting negotiations right from the start, but the United States and Great Britain wouldn't have it. We pushed Ukraine into the 2014-2016 annexing situation, and we pushed them into this one.
And this, European Order, DIY defense coalition, PUTIN specifically told Europe for at least 20 years, you should do that, and as long as you're not in Nato, I don't give a-hoot, care.
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Sigh. New problems every day.
So it seems, the democrat warlords are up to no good, engaging their euro vassals to create diplomatic turbulence. Norway refusing to re-fuel US navy ships.
This increases the spin-up to civil-war. They're playing right into Putin's hands.
If the democrats were really serious. They should lead a coup. Bite hard and END THIS.
It really doesn't matter who rules the world, as long the People are eating 100% Veggie. This bickering is going nowhere, and it's delaying something FAR more important than human lives, Climate Change.
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The poker tells of Donald Trump.
He likely leans in towards the table when is strong. It is a big poker tell for most players, but especially for him.
Despite the above, Trump is bluffing when he talks about his hand. Thus a lean in with a lot of talk is most likely a bluff, shove all-in as Trump hates losing enough that he’ll fold on a bluff.
Open palms/palms out is usually a sign of honesty, but with Trump, it’s a sign he wants you to believe him. Any claims by Trump of “not sure if I’m good” with palms up and out, fold —- he really has a good hand, otherwise he is bluffing and you should shove.
Leaning back with arms folded is usually a sign of a very strong hand (usually the nuts). With Trump, it’s a sign of anger and frustration as he knows he cannot win.
When a player has his hands clasped together in a high steeple, it is usually very sure sign of a player having a very strong hand —- ditto for Trump.
Trump is not a big face/hair toucher nor does he play with his ear or cover his mouth much —- if he does, shove all-in. It means he is weak (maybe paired Jacks, Tens, or a High Card/Rag hand at best). Trust me, he’ll fold to a huge bet or shove.
Trump is a spreader. Spreaders sprawl themselves widely across their spot at the table when winning, but contract when they are losing. The more constricted Trump looks, the worse his cards are.
Post-flop, look for signs of boredom. Trump looks away especially up/far away when he is no longer interested in something. If it looks like he is interested in anything beyond the felt and the chips, he has nothing.
Most players bet strongly (High toss of chips) or bet weakly (low hesitant toss) revealing their hand pretty openly (You should make bets the same way every time to avoid this). Trump probably does the same.
Of course, there are things you can do to make him steam pretty badly. Stare him down without speaking, ridicule how he played a recent hand he lost, or invite Annie Duke to sit at an empty seat at the table. Yeah, Annie Duke would turn Trump into a puddle pretty quickly.
- Kevin Wray 2025-03-01
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"What you saw is madness. I don't mean madness like I'm mad at you. You're mad at me. I'm talking about madness like King George the Third kind of madness. And it could be a combination of being a fat ****ing slob — which of course he is, He could be that he can't sleep at night because his beached whale body can't allow the circulation it needs.
I think we should revisit the possibility of a syphilis diagnosis. I don't think we can discount the fact that what we saw was mad. I'm just making an observation that everyone saw.
We know that boy ain't right. We know that. We saw it. We know that even in the world of Trumpian standards, we know this represents a significant deterioration."
- James Carville 2025-03-01
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IDK, Trump always talk like that.
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So many people are angry over Trump's executive orders, many of which are clear cut constitutional violations, yet no one is doing anything.
That's what is really pissing me off about all this. Stop crying and complaining, and ****ing DO SOMETHING! The government really is spineless and useless.
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yet no one is doing anything.
No one CAN do anything. It took the Republicans decades to finally win ironclad control of the Supreme Court, and that is the final backstop.
Last summer they granted the President pretty much unlimited power to do pretty much anything he wanted.
Biden never used it for anything nefarious, but that was because he is an honorable and intelligent man.
Only when the trigger-happy ones with the stockpiles of ordinance realize that the Republicans are THEIR enemies could the general population successfully rise up in rebellion.
Otherwise we just have to wait two years and make sure that we can gain 2/3 majorities in both houses of Congress.
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yet no one is doing anything.
No one CAN do anything. It took the Republicans decades to finally win ironclad control of the Supreme Court, and that is the final backstop.
Last summer they granted the President pretty much unlimited power to do pretty much anything he wanted.
Biden never used it for anything nefarious, but that was because he is an honorable and intelligent man.
Only when the trigger-happy ones with the stockpiles of ordinance realize that the Republicans are THEIR enemies could the general population successfully rise up in rebellion.
Otherwise we just have to wait two years and make sure that we can gain 2/3 majorities in both houses of Congress.
Who is upholding the Constitution? I was always taught, and lived my entire life under the assumption, that if the President was in clear violation of the Constitution that some department of the American government would step in and say, No you are not allowed to do that. You can't make laws with a tweet, you can't ignore the bedrock of American laws and choose to ignore them, when the President does something illegal someone is meant to step in and stop them. Checks and balances.
Everything written in stone, meant to be followed for the United States to keep functioning, is being circumnavigated and ignored and no one is doing a damn thing! Everything I was taught in civics and social studies was a total lie!
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You know how they say, you have to brush your teeth before you go to bed.
That's the Law, but do you always do it? Are you always 100% invested in what the law says.
They are only guide-lines. Absent enforcement, in the face of perverse incentive, the laws evaporate.
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if the President was in clear violation of the Constitution that some department of the American government would step in and say, No
when the President does something illegal someone is meant to step in and stop them.
no one is doing a damn thing!
.... someone .... somebody .... something .... no one ....
Everything you (and I) learned in Civics was correct, but there are a couple of things that you seem to want to refuse to recognize.
First and foremost, the Founders never imagined that there could come a time when all 3 branches of the Federal government would fall under the control of corrupt and immoral representatives who did not have the best interests of the people at heart. They imagined that public office was public service, and that only people who aspired to being public servants would be interested in occupying public office.
Second, the structure of the Federal government (as well as most State governments) were set up to be awkward and convoluted and surprisingly resistant to change in order to coax the slave states into the fold. Slave owners knew that there would always be resistance to the existence of slavery in the United States, and that it was almost certain to grow in the future, so they insisted on safeguards. Thus we have absurdities such as the notion of the non-population-based Senate, the extremely high bar for amending the Constitution, and, of course, the absurd Electoral College. All this was predicated in the effort to appease the "small" (ie rural) states and give them outsized political influence.
Really understanding this in depth and keeping it in perspective is difficult, and going to the "source" ie The Federalist Papers is not easy because they are written in the flowery late-1770s dialect of men highly-educated in classical literature, but The Constitution https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/843764.America_s_Constitution (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/843764.America_s_Constitution) is a modern and exceptionally detailed (maybe too much so) deep dive into the writing of that document.
The ultimate "stress test" of "the American Experiment" was the Civil War, of course, and while it was successful, Reconstruction was not. Understanding the failure of Reconstruction is key to understanding why we find ourselves still living under the yoke of a 2 and a half century old document, written at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution but firmly planted in the agrarian Age of Enlightenment.
For decades the quintessential treatise on Reconstruction was Eric Foner's book, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/132913.Reconstruction (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/132913.Reconstruction) a huge 600-page tome that he more recently edited down to a svelte 200-pager in order to make it more accessible to normal people who don't have the stomach for huge deep books.
Last, let me post again a picture of my T-shirt, which all of us who have ever served in an official government role swore to uphold, and ask yourself: "Who is keeping their oath, and who is not?"
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clear cut constitutional violations, yet no one is doing anything.
This might be worth looking over.
https://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-litigation-legal-challenges-trump-administration/ (https://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-litigation-legal-challenges-trump-administration/)
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Trump attempting to walk back Chips Act.
This is not Trump's doing, he doesn't understand semi-conductors.
This is ALL TAIWAN. Their only life-line for continued-existence is US-Dependence on TSMC in Taiwan.
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Watched an AOC clip, talking about Drumph,
She's getting a bit chunky there. Maybe she's pregnant, don't know. But in order to take down a Drumph audience as a woman, you have to be skinny and beautiful. It's ok if you're chunky and from their side, but if you're doing it from the other side, Not gonna happen. They just won't listen to what you have to say at all.
Men are exempt. The unfortunate clown world we live in.
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She's getting a bit chunky there.
TP4 - quintessential expert on all things female
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She's getting a bit chunky there.
TP4 - quintessential expert on all things female
It is mere Commentary for the state of the world. Tp4 personally prefers full-tower atx sized females.
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Fffffffffffffff Drumph, this usps thingamaboo, delays all of Tp4's PC parts from (|-|ina, this is an OUTRAGE.
God damn, political system. If it weren't for the fact that Biden was going to start ww3, god damn it.
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Destroying the Post Office has been a Republican wet dream for a while now.
Even though it was specifically created in the Constitution.
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I heard a funny joke today.
Hey, remember that Trump assassination attempt at his rally? Wild to consider the shooter was actually a hardcore Republican.
Of all the times he chose to lean left....
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It was staged.
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Good job, truth-seeking AI.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2025/03/05/trump-speech-state-union-russia-elon-musk-grok/81507335007/ (https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2025/03/05/trump-speech-state-union-russia-elon-musk-grok/81507335007/)
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Labeling protestors as domestic terrorists, arresting and holding tourists with valid passports, deporting college students with green cards.
This is how it starts. Germany 1942 here we come!
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Christina Pagel - Diving into Data & Decision Making - 2025-03-11
"Censor, Purge, Defund: how Trump is following the authoritarian playbook on science and universities
I have mapped 35 of the Trump administration's attacks on science and universities to the authoritarian playbook - and consider what it means for attacks still to come.
This isn’t chaos — it’s a deliberate war on science and academic freedom. In just six weeks, the Trump administration has slashed research budgets, purged health and scientific agencies, censored research, and threatened universities.
Making a list of the actions taken since January 2025 reveals distinct patterns. Just as the administration’s actions as a whole are following an authoritarian playbook, so are the specific ways they are attacking science. I’ve displayed 35 distinct actions, grouped into three main categories:
Control of science to align with state ideology;
Undermining the independence of universities / suppressing dissent;
Maintaining geopolitical / economic goals."
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I have been hearing this and ignoring it for some time now, but this (rather long) article puts forth a seemingly solid argument. Let's really REALLY hope that it is bunk.
https://malcolmnance.substack.com/p/urgent-warning-trump-is-planning (https://malcolmnance.substack.com/p/urgent-warning-trump-is-planning)
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Schumer, seems like the democrats don't realllly want to defend medicaid and social security..
So you see, Tp4 was accurate, on the statement, they're capitalists pigs all the same, all the way down.
We have a Systemic problem.
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capitalists pigs .... all the way down.
Last time, Drumpf was feckless and ignorant, with feckless ignoramuses around him.
This time, he has the Project 2025 army driving him and his strategy. They now have unfettered power and are cunning enough to set up impossible conundrums for anyone hoping to thwart them.
And with the Muskrat as Court Jester creating incendiary diversions in every direction, ordinary people don't know where to turn.
I am inclined to agree with Schumer - as transcendentally horrible as a Federal Government "shutdown" would be, it would also create a golden opportunity to keep very much of the operation offline permanently.
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"“We are in a perverse, bizarro land where we’re having to decide between letting Donald Trump wreck the government this way or wreck the government that way,” New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker said of Democrats’ predicament."
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And by the way, in a shutdown the courts shut down, so lawsuits could not be filed to stop the shutdown ....
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Trump broadcasting that CNN/ MSNBC are political arms of the democrats.
That's technically true, but no worse than Fox for the repooplicants.
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It is to the point of absurdity that I am now considering the current GOP and citizens who support the actions of this administration to be Domestic Terrorists.
It feels like the most appropriate label for what is happening. I'd call them a cult, but that seems too melodramatic (even though I have watched a close family member, in no uncertain terms, be brainwashed and flip their entire moral compass, their entire previous career path, and everything they fought for, to supporting Trump. It breaks my heart.)
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even though I have .... a close family member
flip their entire moral compass
Unfortunately I have 2 brothers and 2 sisters, and they all failed to recognize how evil Reagan was, and have stayed the course ever since - even as it has gotten exponentially worse.
Maybe it is like slowly boiling the frog.
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The two party system no longer works when one party dominates, and the other rolls over to expose their belly like a suicidal baby seal
We need a 3rd party, called the Citizens Of America Party, who stand against tyranny and law breakers and actually get **** done for the people who actually live in America.
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Impossible, mathematically, our type of representative democracy will always reduce down to 2 parties.
This is a certainty.
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Impossible, mathematically, our type of representative democracy will always reduce down to 2 parties.
Unfortunately, I have to agree.
Reading about the Founders and the writing of the Constitution, they constantly expressed their fear and loathing of "Factions" as they called parties, and relentlessly warned about the toxic effect that they would have on the country.
Of course, politicians almost immediately coalesced into 2 factions, and the names have changed over time - but not the dichotomy.
Imagine how, during the Civil War, that the "Democratic" party was the party of Southern slave owners, while the "Republican" party was the party of Northern abolitionists!
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stand against tyranny and law breakers and actually get **** done for the people who actually live in America.
This is called the Democratic Party. But unless it controls all 3 branches with a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, the plutocracy will find ways to thwart anything positive.
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stand against tyranny and law breakers and actually get **** done for the people who actually live in America.
This is called the Democratic Party. But unless it controls all 3 branches with a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, the plutocracy will find ways to thwart anything positive.
That's a lie.
Out of the entirety of washington, there's only Bernie Sanders working (for the people), and the Democratic Party hates him.
The democrats and republicans in all MEANINGFUL/ Impactful ways, that being, Monetized WARS + Consumerist Capitalism, operate identically, absolute 0 distinction..
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there's only Bernie Sanders working (for the people)
I wore my "Bernie for President 2016" T-shirt yesterday and got compliments on it, even in deep-red Tennessee.
Too bad that is so far in the rear-view mirror now.
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there's only Bernie Sanders working (for the people)
I wore my "Bernie for President 2016" T-shirt yesterday and got compliments on it, even in deep-red Tennessee.
Too bad that is so far in the rear-view mirror now.
The Dems straight up sabotaged his campaign and torpedoed it TWICE! They can't even stop fighting amongst themselves to get anything done.
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This is really confusing, why are people surprised pikachu at the Drumph-Pu7in phone calls.
I mean, Ukraine Already lost the war since, LAST YEAR, any more "fighting" is tapping mostly the 60 yr old guys. What exactly can anyone do at this point beyond surrender.
We read these stupid articles that say things like this:
""Putin made the cessation of all military and intelligence aid to Ukraine a "key condition" for peace. Ukraine fears that without a strong military and defensive support from its partners, including a security guarantee, Russia will continue posing an existential threat.""
Russia is an existential threat, along with ANY other nv(lear armed country, with or without security guarantees, with or without military defensive support.
That doesn't change. There's only 1 viable condition here where Ukraine survives at all, Surrender.
Biden was the worst on this, that entire administration had NO PLAN, beyond fighting to the last Ukrainian, which is unethical.. And he really didn't care or perhaps understand ESCALATION.
Nv(lear war isn't a war. It ends in 2 hours, and EVERYONE DIES.
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A real head scratcher this:
"""Germany's Pistorius said: "Putin is playing a game here and I am sure that the American president will not be able to stand by for long." He said there will come a time when Trump "will react, will have to react" to preserve the "strength and prestige" of the U.S."""
Germany believes, Trump cares about US. Prestige? While he plays golf most days, he's thinking, USA prestige.
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remedy
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This is a long-ish article but very informative on the intentions of the Founders.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/23/2310971/-Federalism-the-Last-Defensive-Redoubt-is-in-the-States (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/23/2310971/-Federalism-the-Last-Defensive-Redoubt-is-in-the-States)
TL;DR version
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This is a long-ish article but very informative on the intentions of the Founders.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/23/2310971/-Federalism-the-Last-Defensive-Redoubt-is-in-the-States (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/23/2310971/-Federalism-the-Last-Defensive-Redoubt-is-in-the-States)
Fohat, Tp4 is confused by your perspective, WE, are the sheep.
What concern is it of yours who the Farmer is, or what Flag he waves. They're here to slaughter us.
You're not part of the resistance, you're the product.
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your perspective
My perspective is that the United States has fallen under the heel of people who do not wish to, as they swore an oath to do under the Constitution, Promote the General Welfare
and the reason that happened is that voters in today's America failed to understand what this country was created to do, for its people, and elected representatives who clearly intended to assassinate the "American Experiment".
My perspective is that our highest priority must be to re-educate the people of our country in its foundational ideals.
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the heel of people who do not wish to, as they swore an oath to do under the Constitution, Promote the General Welfare
and the reason that happened is that voters in today's America failed to understand what this country was created to do, for its people,
My perspective is that our highest priority must be to re-educate the people of our country in its foundational ideals.
You can swear to never eat cake again, doesn't make it real. Politicians swear to such and such, and yet they obey capitalism, which fundamentally screws the sheep.
What this country was created to do was an ideal that not even all the founding fathers agreed to. Much like what would Jesus do, except no one does it, and you know, Priests do, what priests do.
Educate people, this sounds like a good idea, except look at the Chinese, they are the most edumakated fkrs on the planet, they've already wildly surpassed the world on industrial output. The entirety of Consumerism is on tract to increase emissions. Peak oil was a lie the entire time.
Education, is an Accelerant. It largely teaches people how to do something, without imparting the WISDOM of whether or not they should.
Is there any other conclusion to pouring Gas on a Fire?
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The attack is indeed 3-pointed:
Classism - attacking the poor and middle class
Racism - attacking anyone who is not a white American citizen
Intellectualism - attacking any free thinkers, higher education, and access to information
They want you poor, scared, and stupid.
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and you're white
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This whole thing about Greenland.
It's remarkably stupid. Even if say, they hand it over, THEN WHAT, what workforce will we send over to "extract" alleged minerals.
You're talking about building up a 20 yrs worth of infrastructure.
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Google Maps has a feature where you can report wrong information and suggest corrections, and yesterday I noticed Google disabled this feature when you try to report an error for Gulf Of Mexico having the wrong name. I wonder how many reports they got before they had to do that.
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It's remarkably stupid. Even if say, they hand it over, THEN WHAT, what workforce will we send over to "extract" alleged minerals.
We have the workforce being assembled at Guantanamo.
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It's remarkably stupid. Even if say, they hand it over, THEN WHAT, what workforce will we send over to "extract" alleged minerals.
We have the workforce being assembled at Guantanamo.
It's not remotely enough, we would need the entirety of Mexico.
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Government recommends Vitamin A for measles.
People actually fed their kids so much V-A that they've got liver damage, Texas hospitals report.
Welp, and you expect humanity to solve Climate-Change. Hahahahahaahhaaaaaa /cry, we're all gon' die horribly.
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Europe paying for its own defense is not some meme.
It's not an unreasonable demand if we agree our main industry is WAR. Expecting they'd pay something like 5% of GDP if they want US to remain in NATO. Recessions ahead.
The "main" issue really is, America honestly can't just float the bill on this anymore, it's very expensive.
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One of the stupidest beliefs MAGAs hold is that liberals do not own firearms. We are still American. Much more than those bootlicking brainwashed racists will ever be.
Why? Because we value our freedom, the constitution, uphold the law, and refuse to be subjugated.
I don't want to fight, but I will if I have to. I'll fight alongside Canada as well, proudly.
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Canada kicked our asses the last time, people forget that. They lit the damn white house on fire.
Now, I don't think they can defeat us at all TODAY, the problem is again, they're exactly like RUSSIA. Canada has nuclear weapons (undisclosed).
We can't outright kill them all without mutually assuring our own destruction.
The spat right now is, The Military Industrial Complex is bankrupting America, America says, OK everyone put a $Dollar in the box, if you want to play, no more free freedom guns.
Tp4 thinks this is perfectly REASONABLE.. Europe and every where else (part of the west), pretty much unequivocally vote /design their society for more social welfare. They're not paying their way, we've been floating them. But our imperialist economy has limits.
Largely, what Bankrupted Russia, protracted military affairs, is going to happen to us, if Europe doesn't pay.
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Dog's anus Drumpf has decided to cut down the magnolia tree (left) planted by Andrew Jackson (certainly no saint himself).
edit - I have also heard that he intends to pave over the Rose Garden ....
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Dog's anus Drumpf has decided to cut down the magnolia tree (left) planted by Andrew Jackson (certainly no saint himself).
edit - I have also heard that he intends to pave over the Rose Garden ....
Just Dump destroying more history and hard work, no surprise at all. But hey, maybe a better shot view through those windows!
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"In place of those structures, today’s MAGA leaders intend to create their own new institutions, shaped by their own people, whose ideological purity trumps their abilities. As Vice President J.D. Vance explained in a 2021 interview, he and his ilk believe that American “conservatives…have lost every major powerful institution in the country, except for maybe churches and religious institutions, which of course are weaker now than they’ve ever been.
We’ve lost big business. We’ve lost finance. We’ve lost the culture. We’ve lost the academy. And if we’re going to actually really effect real change in the country, it will require us completely replacing the existing ruling class with another ruling class …. I don’t think there’s sort of a compromise that we’re going to come with the people who currently actually control the country. Unless we overthrow them in some way, we’re going to keep losing.” “We really need to be really ruthless when it comes to the exercise of power,” he said."
- K. B. Mann 2025-03-02
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"... create their own new institutions, shaped by their own people, whose ideological purity trumps their abilities."
Hmm.. That reminds me of China under Mao Tse Tung.
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The tiff w/Mexico.
The tariffs, trade war, rape gangs, cartels, illegal immigrants.
That's the dressing, but not the play.
The play is, the United States will more-directly enslave Mexico. For a long time, we wanted to enslave the whole world. We failed, it got too expensive, (Vietnam 1ra .q 1sra3l).
The back up slaves were always mexico+(south america). They're already largely bound, but very soon probably, US will play a much more direct role in their government.
The current government of Mexico IS the Cartel, these guys are inherently weak because they rule entirely through fear. It is a strong enough motivator for low level manual labor, but nothing outside of that. Any smart guy, has much better opportunities elsewhere, safer, away from the violence. And so the country will stagnate near indefinitely in that state, the ONLY thing they can produce efficiently is menial labor. They can't tech-up effectively (fast enough) running that system, and so their world standing, where Technology, is the currency, is locked.
The concept of potentially On-Shoring, the US more than anything else, needs this slave labor force, and so we've willingly kept the Cartels in charge. The same reason we sponsored Sadd4m Hussy, and Netn'yahoot.
The news cycle, is designed such that at a moment's notice, it gives us the political excuse to exact Direct Violence on the Cartel, which by design is the direct manipulation of Mexico. To which they have no defense, we sold them (under the table) all the weapons they currently have, and they have no viable navy to negotiate otherwise.
How difficult would it be to manipulate say, the Swiss government, they're high tech, banking haven, nuclear weapons, advanced products other countries depend upon. The US can't do **** to them. If we pressed, they'd nuke us.
Now, Mexico, different story. Fen7any1, Mangos, Avocados are nice, but it gets you very little bargaining power, no one is DEPENDENT on low lvl commodities.
Hang in there Mexico. Everything will probably get way worse.
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His delusion and ignorance know no bounds, and, abetted by his cruelty, he is determined to bring our country to its knees in front of his eminence.
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/04/03/president-trumps-mindless-tariffs-will-cause-economic-havoc (https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/04/03/president-trumps-mindless-tariffs-will-cause-economic-havoc)
TL;DR
"If you failed to spot America being “looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far” or it being cruelly denied a “turn to prosper”, then congratulations: you have a firmer grip on reality than the president of the United States. It’s hard to know which is more unsettling: that the leader of the free world could spout complete drivel about its most successful and admired economy. Or the fact that on April 2nd, spurred on by his delusions, Donald Trump announced the biggest break in America’s trade policy in over a century — and committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era.
The “most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error” indeed. And it’s not clear why anyone possessing even a rudimentary understanding of America’s place in the world economy would sign on to a program that virtually assures its utter and complete annihilation. One plausible explanation for such weird credulity is that many in the financial press expect Trump’s fixations to be temporary and that somehow, some way, everything will return to normal before too long. That once Trump perceives the stock market crashing — as investors flee to whatever safe havens they can scrounge -- cooler heads will at last prevail upon him to move on to another distraction. This ignores the fact that there are no longer any members of his economic “team” willing to tell Trump that his ideas are catastrophic. And it ignores the fact that they were specifically selected for just that reason.
The other, darker (but seemingly more likely) explanation, is that they themselves are so petrified that they cannot bring themselves to acknowledge what is happening right before their eyes, or worse, that they will, by their fealty to Trump, somehow be insulated from its consequences.
The authors of the Economist’s editorial duly reiterate what should be self-evident to anyone with a functioning brain, or at least one capable of recalling and processing even the tiniest fragment of our country’s history:
"Almost everything Mr Trump said this week — on history, economics and the technicalities of trade — was utterly deluded. His reading of history is upside down. He has long glorified the high-tariff, low-income-tax era of the late-19th century. In fact, the best scholarship shows that tariffs impeded the economy back then. He has now added the bizarre claim that lifting tariffs caused the Depression of the 1930s and that the Smoot-Hawley tariffs were too late to rescue the situation. The reality is that tariffs made the Depression much worse, just as they will harm all economies today. It was the painstaking rounds of trade talks in the subsequent 80 years that lowered tariffs and helped increase prosperity."
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The question really is, if our country's unemployment is roughly 4-10%.
That population applied to say a mid tech product like cars, it wouldn't really offset the required inputs from else where. since 40-60% of a car is not made in the US.
4-10% of the plebs, can not in their life make up for 40-60% of " A Car."
So, that's where Mexico comes in.
But this is a cokomami - no-plan of a plan, because how fast can you really subdue Mexico, before the next election cycle?
Theoretically, they also have nv (lear weapons. It's likely that they already have an underground dir7y |>0m|> type weapon built somewhere near american metro.
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Just did a big shopping trip focusing on imported goods that'll keep. Lot's of coffee, olive oil, Bordeaux, and toilet roll. Also the natural order those items would be used in.
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Just did a big shopping trip focusing on imported goods that'll keep. Lot's of coffee, olive oil, Bordeaux, and toilet roll. Also the natural order those items would be used in.
US toilet paper is made in the US. Don't forget to freeze the coffee to extend the shelf life.
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I will say, it has been fun watching Elon slowly realize how much the entire World hates him. Not even just people in the US, everyone outside of his sycophantic bubble is calling him out. Even Dump in my diaper is talking about cutting ties with him, sure for selfish reasons, but nonetheless.
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I will say, it has been fun watching Elon slowly realize how much the entire World hates him.
While he is gettinh recognised as an a-hole by the general populace now, many in the tech world have known about and despised him for many years by now.
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“Mr. Trump is saying there will be no tariff exemptions. But watch that promise vanish as politicians, including Mr. Trump, see exemptions as a way to leverage campaign contributions from business. Liberation Day is Buy Another Yacht Day for the swamp.”
- Wall Street Journal’s editorial board wrote 2025-04-04
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“Mr. Trump is saying there will be no tariff exemptions. But watch that promise vanish as politicians, including Mr. Trump, see exemptions as a way to leverage campaign contributions from business. Liberation Day is Buy Another Yacht Day for the swamp.”
- Wall Street Journal’s editorial board wrote 2025-04-04
In principle, yes, but the Democrats is just another swamp. Capitalism is fundamentally about rushing to market with the maximally unsafe product, and externalizing the cost of production and waste disposal.
The whole world's a swamp.
The media likes to point fingers, this guy this guy, it's all of them.
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Watched a few of this guy's videos, I really enjoy the clarity of his analyses.
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That makes me think of a quote from Kim Jung Il years ago regarding his country's need for a nuke:
"We are a shrimp swimming with whales."
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Watched a few of this guy's videos, I really enjoy the clarity of his analyses.
This guy makes many critical mistakes in analyzing the nu(lr situation.
For example, he says, Drumt is telling 1ran to not pursue nu(kz while telling the world not to pressure rv55ia because they have nu(kz, and that is a "mixed" message.
Drumt isn't doing that for any other reason, than, ANY nation pursuing nu(kz is LESS safe for the USA, it has nothing to do with mixed messaging.
We don't want proliferation period, but proliferation must happen from a human rights perspective. If you don't own a gun, and your neighbor does, it's OK when everyone's got food, but when someone runs out of food, your neighbors will come and kill you and take your food.
Therefore, it's blatantly in the best interest of every country to pursue Nv(lr weapons.
The problem is, the WORLD is already carved out. The borders are set. Those borders are NOT the ones on the map, they are the SPHERES of INFLUENCE.
There is CHINA, RUSSIA, USA, INDIA, EUROPE (France+Germany+UK), that's really it. All other countries don't need their names, as they are largely irrelevant geopolitically. All other countries are price takers, they have the right to sit in their respective houses as long as they PAY RENT to their closest SPHERES OF INFLUENCE.
That is how the world is organized. Hazzah, sounds great if you live in one of the main Spheres.
But wait, HUMANS are only Momentarily ON TOP. A few hurricanes/droughts/wildfires/pollution/pandemic away from Total extinction.
THAT'S is the trap. The talk around nu(lrr weaps, proliferation, BORDERS, this is all Narrow boundary thinking. What's mine and yours is only discussed among HUMANS with OTHER HUMANS,
We have not awoken as a truly Enlightened society to WIDE BOUNDARY WISDOM, that is, we OWE everything we have to the ORGANISM that is PLANET EARTH.
So we continue to bicker in our Giant BURNING HOUSES, who gets the bedroom, who gets new furniture, who gets to watch TV, who gets to play 480fps @ 1000watt an hour w/ 4000watt an hour air conditioners.
Don't be sheep trapped in House-Politics. That world and that thinking is not the real world. It is a narrow model of the real world, that fail to account for 99% of the real world. Winning today's games is about as worthwhile as taking a wee.
Ending Animal Agriculture is the ONLY near term goal relevant to Mankind. If we fail to do this, there is NO FUTURE for our species whatsoever. As it is the MAIN DRIVER of climate change.
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We can see from the Vietnam situation that Drumpf is proving himself yet again, but to a colossal degree, to be little more than a simple minded crime boss "shaking down" a weaker nation under the threat of his tariff scheme. His intent was not to create a protracted trade war after all, but merely to set the stage for individual (and different) reciprocal trade agreements with each of our trading partners. Despicable, unjust, and disingenuous.
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They're going full out to stop south asia from being a port for chinese products into the US.
The problem is, US realistically can't make most of these products, in the same way that when Britain had all the most advanced technology, THEY stopped being able to make day to day products, soon, they stopped being able to even keep their military production afloat.
US is headed in the same direction, this is why we need to annex, enslave Mexico / South America.
They're gearing up the Rhetoric in the News for us to invade.
Long run, this probably won't work. It didn't work for the British.
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Trump removing mentions of Harriet Tubman from history is so wrongheaded and racist. Crazy every day now. The new norm.
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removing .... from history
"You can try to ignore History, but not Science."
- Homer Simpson
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LOL xDDD
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Banana Dictator
The US Military has a chance to do the funniest thing in US history...
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Might be something of a bad idea.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-administration-weighs-drone-strikes-mexican-cartels-rcna198930 (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-administration-weighs-drone-strikes-mexican-cartels-rcna198930)
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You guys watch the AI videos of American Jobs reshoring? hahahahahaa.
Music full blast, maximum hilarious.
https://futurism.com/china-mocking-ai-video-americans-sweatshop
Tp4's counter argument is, Everyone will lose alot of weight. And it's accurate in that there will not be mobility scooters, as people won't be able to afford them when 99% of mobility scooters are made in China.
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"Countries are falling over themselves to reform unfair trade practices and reopen their markets to our country."
"These countries greatly respect President Trump."
"President Trump has a spine of steel and he will not break."
"America will not break under his leadership."
"By supercharging American manufacturing, the president is already delivering on his promise to usher in an economic golden age for our country."
- Karoline Leavitt
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“These countries are calling us up. Kissing my ass. They are dying to make a deal,” Trump told a group of Republicans on Tuesday evening, hours before the tariffs were set to take hold.
He described foreign leaders essentially groveling to avoid the new tariffs: “Please, please sir, make a deal. I’ll do anything sir.”
- actual quote
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New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman asked Leavitt directly if Trump thought iPhone manufacturing was the type of technology that could move to the US. Leavitt said “Absolutely. He believes we have the labor, we have the workforce, we have the resources to do it.”
Walter Isaacson’s biography, Steve Jobs, clearly describes meetings between Jobs and then-president Barack Obama in 2010 and 2011, where Jobs explained that the problem is that America lacks the 30,000 properly trained engineers needed to support a factory workforce rivaling the 700,000 workers employed in China:
Apple had 700,000 factory workers employed in China, he said, and that was because it needed 30,000 engineers on-site to support those workers. ‘You can’t find that many in America to hire,’ he said.
Tim Cook has been just as blunt, describing the issue in 2017 at Fortune Magazine’s Global Forum event.
…the truth is China stopped being the low labor cost country many years ago and that is not the reason to come to China from a supply point of view. The reason is because of the skill and the quantity of skill in one location, and the type of skill. It is like the products we do require really advanced tooling and the precision that you have to have in tooling and working with the materials that we do are state-of-the-art, and the tooling skill is very deep here. You know in, in the US, you could have a meeting of tooling engineers, and I’m not sure we could fill the room — in China you could fill multiple football fields.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/09/trumps-morning-buy-call-nets-huge-returns-for-those-who-listened.html (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/09/trumps-morning-buy-call-nets-huge-returns-for-those-who-listened.html)
TL;DR
“Can you imagine the insider trading?,” another user wrote. “Like if you are inside the white house and don’t come out of this a bazillionaire you are literally the dumbest person on the planet.”
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Democrats insider trades like no one's business just as much.
Ocasio-Cortez: ""There needs to be Democrats who walk the walk and talk the talk. There is an insane amount of hypocrisy, and the hypocrisy is what gets exploited to use the cynicism and wherever there's a hypocritical window. For example, I think one of the most biggest examples of this is insider trading in Congress"...."And then we're supposed to act like money only corrupts Republicans?""
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Apple had 700,000 factory workers employed in China, he said, and that was because it needed 30,000 engineers on-site to support those workers. ‘You can’t find that many in America to hire,’ he said.
30k engineers?
Those aren't engineers they're middle management and they're far cheaper in China than the U.S.
Steve Jobs never did understand engineering.
Democrats insider trades like no one's business just as much.
Yeah I lost a small fortune on Obama coins but I made a fortune on his and Bidens stock market pump and dumps.
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30k engineers?
Those aren't engineers they're middle management and they're far cheaper in China than the U.S.
Steve Jobs never did understand engineering.
LLann, this is actually an area Tp4 knows quite well. China graduates 1.5+ Million engineering students every year. Alot of them are running middle management, but they are engineers. And these students that go through these programs pretty much already have the first 1.5-2 years of your typical american 101-202 math and science courses completed in high-school.
When they say 30,000 engineers, it's not some embellishment. China has far surpassed the USA in engineering education and capability.
The United States only graduate around 50-70,000 a year.
China does not shy away from math, their society is set up such that math/science for most people is their only form of Social-Mobility.
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Check out this insanity:
https://www.ianwelsh.net/china-cuts-the-legs-out-underneath-the-us-lng-industry/ (https://www.ianwelsh.net/china-cuts-the-legs-out-underneath-the-us-lng-industry/)
TL;DR version
What’s becoming clear about this trade war is that China has gamed it out. They thought ahead, having learned lessons during the first Trump administration: they were ready. They’ve massively reduced their vulnerabilities and carefully examined America’s weaknesses, and now they’re hitting them. Hard.
This realigns American allies in Europe and Australia more towards China, it hurts the US, and it highlights the benefits of doing business with China.
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Don't think that is right, China doesn't use much LNG. They can't have too much of an impact on US sellers.
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This openly corrupt, disgusting, treasonous criminal needs to be in prison for insider trading. Our President is openly insider trading at the cost of the welfare of the American people and Global stock market! Anyone got the balls to uphold the damn law and constitution and protect the country? Anyone?
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President .... to uphold the damn law
It is the responsibility of the Supreme Court to determine, what, exactly "the law" actually is. They spoke last summer.
The Supreme Court is the final arbiter. Responsibility for allowing a President to break bad lies exclusively with that body.
Only the combined actions of both houses of Congress (including 2/3 of the Senate) can win relief for us. And that would be JD Vance.
This is a generations-long project that has been in the works since the late-1950s - read the book "Democracy in Chains" - it is sure to be in your public library.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30011020-democracy-in-chains (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30011020-democracy-in-chains)
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30k engineers?
Those aren't engineers they're middle management and they're far cheaper in China than the U.S.
Steve Jobs never did understand engineering.
LLann, this is actually an area Tp4 knows quite well. China graduates 1.5+ Million engineering students every year. Alot of them are running middle management, but they are engineers. And these students that go through these programs pretty much already have the first 1.5-2 years of your typical american 101-202 math and science courses completed in high-school.
I'm not doubting China has lots of them, I'm questioning that Apple has so many on staff over there.
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30k engineers?
Those aren't engineers they're middle management and they're far cheaper in China than the U.S.
Steve Jobs never did understand engineering.
LLann, this is actually an area Tp4 knows quite well. China graduates 1.5+ Million engineering students every year. Alot of them are running middle management, but they are engineers. And these students that go through these programs pretty much already have the first 1.5-2 years of your typical american 101-202 math and science courses completed in high-school.
I'm not doubting China has lots of them, I'm questioning that Apple has so many on staff over there.
Not to mention the cost of labor, manufacturing, parts, and insurance for every single one of your factory workers.
There is a reason huge corporations do their manufacturing in countries like China and India.
It simply would not financially be possible in the USA without drastically reducing current inflation and upping the nationwide minimum wage. Both of which will never happen with the current corrupt thieving revisionists in power. They would LIKE to make the US working class an indentured class, but that is far down the line. As much as they try to accelerate the wealth gap to have a distinct class of suffering workers, that won't happen without mass bloodshed.
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I'm genuinely, genuinely confused as to whether or not these average MAGA Americans voted to make billionaires richer or not. On one hand it seems weird as it wouldn't be in their interest, on the other, it is so unbelievably evident that that's what's going on, the writing is so overtly on the wall, that it seems impossible not to be aware of this.
Not kidding, my confusion is 100% genuine. It's like homeless Americans still voting against tax cuts for the rich because they don't want to have to pay more taxes once they strike it rich themselves. Is it the same mentality here?
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I'm genuinely, genuinely confused as to whether or not these average MAGA Americans voted to make billionaires richer or not. On one hand it seems weird as it wouldn't be in their interest, on the other, it is so unbelievably evident that that's what's going on, the writing is so overtly on the wall, that it seems impossible not to be aware of this.
Not kidding, my confusion is 100% genuine. It's like homeless Americans still voting against tax cuts for the rich because they don't want to have to pay more taxes once they strike it rich themselves. Is it the same mentality here?
No, they're illiterate morons. They don't understand anything about anything. Trump is a brand, and it sells itself as sticking it to the liberals.
They perceive liberals as the Corpo-Elites who extract from and ruin their lives. They don't realize that ALL capitalists do that regardless of affiliation.
IN THE SAME WAY, Democrats tell democrat voters, that they're going to fix everything, they're all about workers rights, and cutting emissions, and saving the animals.
Again, SAME LIES, different audience.
The average democrat, is just as illiterate, just as unworldly, just as stupid, same morons, different Brand.
Then there's Bernie Sanders, Acutually an OK guy. Not great, still a capitalist, but way better than the average.
Jury is still out on AOC, highly doubt the image.
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I'm genuinely, genuinely confused as to whether or not these average MAGA Americans voted to make billionaires richer or not. On one hand it seems weird as it wouldn't be in their interest, on the other, it is so unbelievably evident that that's what's going on, the writing is so overtly on the wall, that it seems impossible not to be aware of this.
Not kidding, my confusion is 100% genuine. It's like homeless Americans still voting against tax cuts for the rich because they don't want to have to pay more taxes once they strike it rich themselves. Is it the same mentality here?
No, they're illiterate morons. They don't understand anything about anything. Trump is a brand, and it sells itself as sticking it to the liberals.
So when they see something like this, would that upset them? Cause them to regret their vote?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/E2dr8En2N5A
Because there is so much stuff like this, how could they possibly stay on board with Trump in the face of all this evidence?
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They are not all stupid, many are just extremely stubborn and/or racist
The very first ones to turn on him will be the uneducated working class, because they will feel the effects of his actions first
The long-term entrenched ones will be the intelligent and wealthy ones who can ride it out, and will go to any length to save face
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They are not all stupid, many are just extremely stubborn and/or racist
The very first ones to turn on him will be the uneducated working class, because they will feel the effects of his actions first
The long-term entrenched ones will be the intelligent and wealthy ones who can ride it out, and will go to any length to save face
Will ANYONE actually turn on him though?
I see so many videos on YT come by about Trump losing face or making some sort of fatal mistake (in their opinion) but to me it doesn't look like he's teetering at all, in fact I wouldn't be surprised if he gets that 3rd term.
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So when they see something like this, would that upset them? Cause them to regret their vote?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/E2dr8En2N5A
Because there is so much stuff like this, how could they possibly stay on board with Trump in the face of all this evidence?
You are presupposing they have the capacity + Habit to make a second order inference. They don't.
These are children of the Time-poor/ Time-Starved peasants. Their programming is a cobbled together shanty of daytime television and social media brain rot.
They have no basis of "Reality." They are born servants and the system deliberately locks them in. There's no thought behind those eyes, they are a short step above animals reacting to short term pain/relief, hot and cold.
Ask a child, what he thinks of the global policy on energy fairness, He is not qualified to answer, he does not even have the pre-requisite to Think about the problem.
To be clear, Tp4 is not saying these are Bad People, they ARE NOT BAD PEOPLE, they have a right to life, and all the things we've deprived them of.
But the current situation is, They are peasants, weaponized by the Elite, against other Elites.
There are just as many Democrat peasants as Republican peasants. Both political parties LIE, their behavior/perspectives/ideology are actually IDENTICAL. Farm the peasants, Kill the Planet.
This system is working as it should, Class systems + Bureaucracy were necessary evolutions in social structure to Efficiently Manage groups of humans much larger than that of a village, as terrible and inhumane as they are.
The problem with this system is NOT-Only inequality, the way we DEFINE-Progress is Dangerously-Myopic. As fleas, we Burn and Kill the cat which we live on, we then write that down as Check-marks of economic tablature. The ecosystem is in a rapid death spiral Primarily due to Animal-Agriculture.
There is no future for mankind if our CONCEPT of improvement does not change.
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They are not all stupid, many are just extremely stubborn and/or racist
The very first ones to turn on him will be the uneducated working class, because they will feel the effects of his actions first
The long-term entrenched ones will be the intelligent and wealthy ones who can ride it out, and will go to any length to save face
Will ANYONE actually turn on him though?
I see so many videos on YT come by about Trump losing face or making some sort of fatal mistake (in their opinion) but to me it doesn't look like he's teetering at all, in fact I wouldn't be surprised if he gets that 3rd term.
I don't know what will happen. An increasing number of people are scared, as they should be. No one but extremist right-wingers want a civil war, but on the other hand no one in government is doing anything at all at the consistent constitutional violations and law breaking. This is all uncharted waters. If a civil war happens and the people do not go all-in and win, they will be labled as traitors and executed. It is a fight no one wants, and one we could not afford to lose.
I think the biggest failing is America is exhausted from fighting through his previous term and all the bull**** that came with it, and still reeling from the pandemic which many Americans never recovered from. I can attest my life has not been the same since 2020, and I never properly 'bounced back.' The country is fatigued, which is the perfect moment to kill democracy and civil liberties.
Personally I want to gtfo America. Whatever happens, I do not want to be here when it does. I'm way far down on their perceived enemies list, but eventually they will get to 'those who oppose the administration' and by that point it will be far too late. They are already testing the waters deporting US citizens with valid visas and families, do not fool yourself thinking anyone and everyone who sleights Trump is on the table.
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This is the kind of idiocy structure of our global governance.
Burning house, guy who sharpens sticks, we take this guys,, and we're going to defend this bed room if it's the last thing we do, cough, cough, rubs sweat. 22 seconds later, everyone suffocated and died of smoke inhalation.
vvvv China Hawks, kaa kawwh.
""The Mountain Pass mine in California, owned by MP Materials, is the sole US-based source of rare earths but cannot meet domestic demand. James Litinsky, MP Materials' CEO, expressed concern over the implications for military contractors. "Drones and robotics are widely considered the future of warfare," Litinsky said. "Based on everything we are seeing, the critical inputs for our future supply chain are shut down."""
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Check this out, from the right side of the aisle.
https://www.adn.com/politics/2025/04/14/we-are-all-afraid-speaking-to-alaska-nonprofit-leaders-murkowski-gets-candid-on-upheaval-in-federal-government/ (https://www.adn.com/politics/2025/04/14/we-are-all-afraid-speaking-to-alaska-nonprofit-leaders-murkowski-gets-candid-on-upheaval-in-federal-government/)
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Humanity is hopeless. The center of that article is around the impact on the Fishing industry. The same fishing industry that's responsible for over 50% of plastic pollution in the ocean, (through discarded fishing nets). The same industry that has essentially caused one of the greatest extinction events of marine life. Estimates place 70-95% of all ocean sharks are gone.
Their lens is so focused on, Human livelihoods. Even at this moment they are completely blind to the catastrophe that is the Human enterprise. The holocaust every few minutes we commit against the natural world.
They talk about shutting down NOAA, as a bad thing, WHICH it is. But then, it reads, Oh without NOAA, how will Fishermen set safe-sustainable fishing targets. There is no such thing as sustainable fishing, with Drag nets. Every year the fishing fleet of earth, cull using drag nets an area the size of the United States (under water). Drag nets destroys the ocean ecosystem as it scrapes the bottom and mass kills all life.
So Fohat.dig is worried about republican vs democrats, this Republican senator is worried about Fishing.
All the while, nature collapses all around us in a mass die off.
To be clear, NOAA is very important. But not for fishing reasons.
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-- Cuts of as many as 20,000 HHS staff upend public health research
-- FDA's program to improve bird flu testing in food also suspended
-- Suspension affects tests for Cyclospora in spinach, glyphosate in barley
-- Trump aims to cut $40 billion from HHS budget
So.... if you're eatn' ne birds. You know, just don't? But if you have to, wear gloves + gas mask, do it outside, then decontaminate.
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Working-class white voters who’ve read a book in the last year are much more Democratic than working-class white voters who haven’t. -Nate Cohn (statistics)
So the democrat land owners by enslaving the population and destroying education to maintain "their own" slave wage force, shot themselves in the foot.
Well, there's your problem. /Chekm8
Democrats and Republicans might disagree on the surface about ideals, but they AGREE 100% on Capitalist Slavery.
To which Tp4 contends, they're the Same party. In America, there is the Very right wing Democrats, and the Extreme right wing Republicans.
The fact that the Democrats are a right wing party is unabashed and undisputed. The only unawares is in the working class.
In general though, if they were "really different", the actions say otherwise. For a long time, Democrats actually had the ability to codify many things on abortion/lgbt for many years, Democrats DIDN'T DO IT. They hung it out there to use as media fodder for the next election.
When Biden came in, he KEPT all of the Previous Trump Tariffs.
So there you have it. Pretty clear cut, Same Grifters, Different flags.
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That's not surprising. I have read well over a thousand books in my life (and maybe over 2K) so the "left" is strong in this one, even though probably no more than 10% were politics and/or American History.
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Hang on, if they're saying they're laying off truck production workers, doesn't that mean trucker drivers will be affected even more, as "The Wave" set in?
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California Governor republican candidate, Langford added, “We know who you are, we know where you are, if you marry one of our Californian incels then you can stay but if you don’t, then, well you get sent back across.”
Headscratch, are they assuming illegal immigrant women can't do better than American Incels? This is quite offensive.
How many incels are there even vs # of undocumented women?
Tp4 as #3402 volcel of America knowing a bit on the subject, can't imagine actual incels even considering marriage.
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I thought that the "in" part referred to "involuntary".
Wouldn't the prospect of effortlessly obtained women be a sort of dream scenario?
Not that I would advocate such a thing, but "marrying for a green card" has been a trope for decades.
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Man of Honor?
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ANY other age in American history Hegseth would be thrown in a military prison without any question or hesitation, and have all electronic access restricted for the remainder of his pathetic life.
Absolute embarrassment, total failure, 100% clown, and a clear and present danger to the entire country of America.
How is this incompetent human prolapse allowed to walk free after MULTIPLE TOP LEVEL WAR PLAN LEAKS TO THE PUBLIC! What the actual ****?!?
Trump adim needs to take care of this guy, he is making all of them look even more incompetent than anyone ever thought possible. He is a straight up liability.
Insane.
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ANY other age in American history Hegseth would be thrown in a military prison without any question or hesitation, and have all electronic access restricted for the remainder of his pathetic life.
Absolute embarrassment, total failure, 100% clown, and a clear and present danger to the entire country of America.
How is this incompetent human prolapse allowed to walk free after MULTIPLE TOP LEVEL WAR PLAN LEAKS TO THE PUBLIC! What the actual ****?!?
Trump adim needs to take care of this guy, he is making all of them look even more incompetent than anyone ever thought possible. He is a straight up liability.
Insane.
This is 100% in character for totalitarian states. In such governments, positions of power will typically be given to the people who are the most loyal, not necessarily the most competent.
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ANY other age in American history Hegseth would be thrown in a military prison without any question or hesitation, and have all electronic access restricted for the remainder of his pathetic life.
Maybe, maybe not.
He'd probably be fired the second time (it happened more than once) but there's a good chance we'd have never known any of it happened because they would have caught it and talked to the reporter who would have kept quiet. There's ways to deal with it, they chose the worst.
That's part of the problem with these guys, they can't handle being wrong and it makes them easy to manipulate, it's like tricking a child into doing something by saying they can't do something, they just have to prove you wrong.
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This is 100% in character for totalitarian states. In such governments, positions of power will typically be given to the people who are the most loyal, not necessarily the most competent.
All large bureaucracies are totalitarian, they all disappear whoever they want.
The difference really only comes down to whether or not its ran efficiently, such that, they don't HAVE TO disappear anyone.
Unfortunately, that erodes rapidly over time. For most of people's lives, we've managed - upwards in growth phases, that's easy, but as we approach managing DOWN, you're going to see a rapid return to very narrowly defined justice, as the total processing capacity of the bureaucracy takes a dive with the rest of society..
For example, right now, today, large bureaucracies have enough bandwidth to say, ok, man is this, woman is that, trans is such, OK, define, execute, define execute,
As society ages, the bureaucracy's processing power shrinks because capitalism mis-appropriates larger and larger quantities of wealth. This is akin to a CPU producing more and more errors in its lifespan, and able to sustain only LOWER and LOWER clockspeeds at higher and higher power consumption.
So, now, you got Jimbob Gatorade left in the office, and he's got time for Man and Woman, we don't even have the paperworks capacity to file / sort for Trans. The bureaucracy adopts less tolerance in order to maintain clearing of more critical functions.
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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xvriwMCa7rE
Obama shines his usual eloquent light on this.
By the way, my university (and others in the country) are now using burner phones for people travelling to the US because people with anti-Trump sentiments found on their phones are being apprehended at the border.
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You have to understand. Under Obama, the Us conducted the largest assa tssina..t1on campaign in the history of histories against the middle east.
US is exempt from any war crime trials. But if we were not, pretty much every single US president would be as guilty as Put-in/H17ler.
The problem is deep within the system of tribalism, and our dependency on the PURSUIT of excess.
Under Obama, we crashed Iran's refineries with our stuxnet virus, and they hacked us back and crippled wall street, (proving), that hey if you want to play this, we can do it too without fancy computers, ultimately forcing US to back off, IRAN, that place out of no where, with people living on less than $10. What we "consider" "sane" leadership is demonstrably FALSE, and we're at near misses for WW3 every time, always pushing escalation.
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TP4 - the voice of lucidity.
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TP4 - the voice of lucidity.
The media has programed fohat as such, they bad, we good.
Who's they and who's we is arbitrary.
Fohat hasn't thought much about that. The average fohats of the world take They and We as givens.
Learn the 3rd person Fohat. You will see, we're making a royal mess that is going to get us all killed.
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You have to understand. Under Obama, the Us conducted the largest assa tssina..t1on campaign in the history of histories against the middle east.
US is exempt from any war crime trials. But if we were not, pretty much every single US president would be as guilty as Put-in/H17ler.
The problem is deep within the system of tribalism, and our dependency on the PURSUIT of excess.
Under Obama, we crashed Iran's refineries with our stuxnet virus, and they hacked us back and crippled wall street, (proving), that hey if you want to play this, we can do it too without fancy computers, ultimately forcing US to back off, IRAN, that place out of no where, with people living on less than $10. What we "consider" "sane" leadership is demonstrably FALSE, and we're at near misses for WW3 every time, always pushing escalation.
Sorry, I don't follow - how does this tie in with what Trump is doing at the moment?
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Sorry, I don't follow - how does this tie in with what Trump is doing at the moment?
Chyros is divided on who's in charge of the sinking ship.
Without talking about the condition of the ship, it doesn't matter which personality you attach your loyalties to.
Demo/Repub, Trump, Biden, Obama. ALL BAD OPTIONS.
Bernie Sanders, and maybe AOC, big maybe, might do a little better, not much, but a little.
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Sorry, I don't follow - how does this tie in with what Trump is doing at the moment?
Chyros is divided on who's in charge of the sinking ship.
Without talking about the condition of the ship, it doesn't matter which personality you attach your loyalties to.
Demo/Repub, Trump, Biden, Obama. ALL BAD OPTIONS.
Bernie Sanders, and maybe AOC, big maybe, might do a little better, not much, but a little.
I agree that the democrats aren't a good alternative, but on the other hand, it's not like the US was taking on water on a level even halfway comparable to this under previous presidencies.
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I agree that the democrats aren't a good alternative, but on the other hand, it's not like the US was taking on water on a level even halfway comparable to this under previous presidencies.
If you're talking about business as usual, as in, Capitalism @ all cost, damn all real world consequences. Then it would be moderately accurate to say the democrats generally did well with "the short term Economy".
However, REAL WORLD, accounting for REAL Consequences. Drump is by far the most effective president in the history of presidents @ tanking Capitalism, Saving swaths of the natural world, reversing climate-change.
Those are FACTS. He's not a good person, but there are clear benefits to rolling back the system, even if only operated via genuine stupidity.
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democrats aren't a good alternative
When "bending the arc of history" is the issue, considering the colossal inertia involved, a choice between 2 alternatives is pretty straightforward.
In the US, particularly since the election of Reagan, there has been a bloc of people who scream, in effect, "screw it, everything sucks, burn it to the ground and start over"
Although our country was founded "to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty" - Ronald Reagan, even as candidate, did the unthinkable and repeatedly stated that "the Government is the problem, not the solution" and the haters seized on it as a license to endeavor to topple our country throw it into ruin.
You often hear people calling Drumpf a "traitor" or other things to that effect, but it was actually Reagan who planted the anti-American seeds that are now flowering.
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Fohat, you're still stuck in the 1950s.
The democrats and republicans you KNEW, are NOT the democrats and republicans TODAY.
Back in your politically-formative years, ALL THOSE PEOPLE, including Reagan, would be considered today EXTREME LEFT, SOCIALISTS.
Bernie sanders is on par with Reagan. And he's the best we've got at the moment.
BUT WE HAVE TO BE CLEAR. It's JUST BERNIE that's good, Nothing around Bernie is good, not the democrats, certainly not the republicans.
Then there's the OUTward system. How does Nature and the Ecosystem respond to what's happening. Drump and his idiocy is Ironically Better for climate change than any deliberate action taken on behalf of any government in the last 50 years.
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including Reagan, would be considered today EXTREME LEFT
Reagan had already become a raging Republican by the time he was elected Governor of California.
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tp, you are mistaking Republicans for MAGAs, they are not the same
Nothing is quite the same as MAGAs, they are a cult. Simple as.
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mistaking Republicans for MAGAs
I don't know, it all looks like The Cult of Trump to me.
Even the first time around, they let the man-baby have its way almost every time, now it is complete submission.
It makes my blood boil when I hear somebody say "I didn't vote for this" - YES YOU ****ING DID !
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mistaking Republicans for MAGAs
I don't know, it all looks like The Cult of Trump to me.
Even the first time around, they let the man-baby have its way almost every time, now it is complete submission.
It makes my blood boil when I hear somebody say "I didn't vote for this" - YES YOU ****ING DID !
I'd estimate only about 1/3 of Republican voters were for/supported Trump the second time around, and that number is very rapidly diminishing as he wields unchecked power and starts effecting their daily lives. Many R. voters said they would support any R. candidate except Trump, which didn't work out because the two party system in inherently broken so it 'forces' them to vote for a candidate they don't want. Many of the current admins 'insiders' are ready to jump ship at a moments notice if/when things go south. If this keeps up, his only support base will be extremely concentrated crazy, so just like Jan 9th again.
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https://www.axios.com/2025/04/23/trump-economy-tariffs-china-powell (https://www.axios.com/2025/04/23/trump-economy-tariffs-china-powell)
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the two party system in inherently broken so it 'forces' them to vote for a candidate
if/when things go south.
Nobody is "forced" to vote, and with over a third of eligible voters not voting while something slightly less than a third of eligible voters vote for each candidate - we are destined to have bizarre results.
Things "went south" under Bush Jr and Obama fixed it, things "went south" under Drumpf 1 and Biden fixed it, what does it take for the ignorant underclass of American adults to see trouble when it is right in front of their eyes?
PS - and to recognize what it looks like when somebody "fixes" it?
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The Democrat Pac did a post election vote study, if MORE people actually voted in the last election, Drump would've won by an even higher percentage.
The reason this is happening is because the Democrats aren't doing a damn thing for the "people". They are identical to the Republicans in every way that matters.
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Maybe he is thinking that all those Canadians would be Republicans if they joined the US?
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Is this all a ruse, or some political manoeuvre or something? Or just something to save face? He can't possibly expect Canada to join the US willingly.
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Trump hears he has the lowest approval rating of any President in the past 80 years. His immediate reaction? Start an investigation against the pollers.
He is so ****ed in the head.
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He can't possibly expect Canada to join the US willingly.
An infantile desire to have "more"
His *****master Vladimir "took" some of Ukraine, which he perceives and successful bullying, and he knows that Xi lusts after Taiwan - so he wants to show that he can do it, too.
The fact that Canada (and Greenland) are quite large also makes them much juicier prizes.
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We can't take canada. They have nuclear weapons. 100% impossible.
AT best we can take Mexico.
Greenland is a none-issue, they will never come up with enough resources /money/manpower to effectively extract from Greenland. It might be possible if we directly enslaved Mexico. NOT EASY, but within the realm of possibility.
Still a bad idea.
The world is at 430ppm Co2, +2.5 ppm per year, You got 30-50 years. Then you're dead.
Now, if we have an increased trajectory at all, we're going to blow through that in 15-30 years. Then we're dead.
The world is a stupid place, ran by people who don't understand Energy costs. The military is the least energy efficient + Highest-emissions system on the planet. If you run everything through it, we'll burn out in that 30 year range.
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The hubris knows no boundaries.
https://x.com/rpsagainsttrump/status/1917293918074396977?s=46 (https://x.com/rpsagainsttrump/status/1917293918074396977?s=46)
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Meh.. They play basically the same role in society. Steal money from the poor, teach them to fear the ruling class.
The only difference is branding, one claims to be speaking to god, the other one, in god (money) we trust.
Trump would do just as good a job at pope as any other pope. It's rot all the way down. Mainstream christianity is un-salvageable and frankly disgusting.
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Dude isn't even religious xD .
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... he knows that Xi lusts after Taiwan ...
But he does not care. China knows that, and they also know that if Trump would change his mind, he and his secretary of defence are still incompetent idiots.
That's why China is gearing up to invade Taiwan. Maybe it will happen this year. Maybe it will be the next. But at least it will be before Trump's term is over. (whenever that will be)
The hubris knows no boundaries.
https://x.com/rpsagainsttrump/status/1917293918074396977?s=46 (https://x.com/rpsagainsttrump/status/1917293918074396977?s=46)
Please try to avoid posting direct links to Xitter. Don't make people go there. Post quotes instead.
Dude isn't even religious xD .
Off-topic: There are successful clergymen in many religious organisations who are not, only doing it because they think it is a sweet job.
I strongly suspect that the Swedish prime minister's wife is such a priest, considering how she is married to someone who obviously worships the devil...
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China is gearing up to invade Taiwan.
That would be disastrous. The mindless toad probably imagines that it would encourage US chipmakers to to hurry up and build more factories.
Please try to avoid posting direct links to Xitter.
Post quotes instead.
I generally don't, but the immediacy of it would have been lost without seeing it with your own eyes and hearing it.
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Get ready for some thrashing as the reports continue pouring in regarding how much real damage has been done to the US in the past few months.
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Also India / Pakistan gearing up for war. Too much war. World's a powderkeg right now.
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Also India / Pakistan gearing up for war. Too much war. World's a powderkeg right now.
Looks like all family business is being settled.
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family business
He has behaved like a New York City crime family boss for decades, unlike his father, who was more like a greasy slum lord.
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All large businesses are criminal empires.
Only the little people play by the rules.
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Dude isn't even religious xD .
Just like President, he just wants the title and have it on his resume.
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Ok, the thing on stopping cancer research.
Cancer research in its existing form is fundamentally going no where, when the root causes, (Capitalism), is not addressed under (Capitalism).
Then the second part is Cancer Accelerants, which is a set of behaviors, high heat cooking of meat, denaturing proteins and fats. This is culture, and it is yet again, NOT addressed, Cancer society websites routinely promote "Keto" brand recipes.
Finally, there's eating meat in general. TMAO, Heme Iron, Bio-Accumulated pesticides/Chemicals.
So, that brand of research goes NO WHERE, as it's almost entirely focused on TREATING cancer, which means, Treating the symptoms of cancer, instead of the disease.
Chemo, and other highly expensive procedures are extremely low efficacy. Doctors wouldn't prescribe it for themselves, they'd rather die than bother with it.
The problem isn't whether we stop or start more cancer research. The problem is far more foundational in the incorrect way in which we live.
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"The Rule of Law is breaking down." - Chief Justice John Roberts
Let that sink in. A blunt unequivocal statement of that import is not something that you have ever heard from the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
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Your tax money is going towards rewarding a domestic terrorist for committing a seditious act against the country in a coup.
Meanwhile the family of the officer killed during the Jan. 6th riots while protecting the USA and upholding his duty against terrorists is getting nothing.
This should concern and enrage everyone. Disgusting.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-5-million-ashli-babbitt-jan-6-rioter-who-was-killed/ (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-5-million-ashli-babbitt-jan-6-rioter-who-was-killed/)
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This should concern and enrage everyone.
That is barely significant in comparison to the pardons for everyone involved ....
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Again fohat,
Drump is bad, but Biden is worse.
vvvvv
Gaza Genocide, = Unanimous Bipartisan Support.
Biden: "You don't have to be jewish to be a zionist".
Quite a powerful article below.
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-new-dark-age
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Highlights from Drumpf's commencement speech at West Point today :
"He ended up getting a divorce, found a new wife — could you say a trophy wife? I guess we can say a trophy wife. It didn’t work out too well. And that doesn’t work out too well, I must tell you, a lot of trophy wives. It doesn’t work out. But it made him happy for a little while, at least. But he found a new wife. He sold his little boat, he got a big yacht."
"I was investigated more than the great, late Alphonse Capone. Alphonse Capone was a monster."
"The job of the U.S. Armed forces is not to host drag shows, to transform foreign cultures, but to spread democracy to everybody around the world at the point of a gun."
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The memecoin dinner bull**** is just so blatant, well beyond the pale.
Insane how this is being allowed to happen.
It's almost every day with this guy, the list for impeachment reasons is pages long at this point. Embarrassing.
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With or without the coins, the entirety of washington is a building of revolving doors between industry executives and legislature.
Democrats are identical to Republicans. There is absolutely 0 difference. Biden was of far greater risk of militarized escalation than Drump.
And here we are, bi-partisan sponsorship of BLATANT GENOCIDE, ontop of an Open War with Rv551a.
Drump is at least doing 1 thing right. Biden was literally doing everything wrong.
On all the things that matter, they are both far-right parties.
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As a former FEMA employee, I have been dismayed watching the agency being eviscerated.
But while victims of storms and floods are kicked to the curb, here is one scrap of the mission that has not been abandoned.
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With or without the coins, the entirety of washington is a building of revolving doors between industry executives and legislature.
Democrats are identical to Republicans. There is absolutely 0 difference. Biden was of far greater risk of militarized escalation than Drump.
And here we are, bi-partisan sponsorship of BLATANT GENOCIDE, ontop of an Open War with Rv551a.
Drump is at least doing 1 thing right. Biden was literally doing everything wrong.
On all the things that matter, they are both far-right parties.
What is Trump doing right that Biden was doing wrong?
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What is Trump doing right that Biden was doing wrong?
NOT, escalating the war with Rv55ia further.
Drump saved America, and the world from nv(lear annihilation. We couldn't care less that he's an idiot or a puppet.
Don't misunderstand, Everything is still going downhill.. But at least it ain't rad1oa(tiv.
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What is Trump doing right that Biden was doing wrong?
NOT, escalating the war with Rv55ia further.
Drump saved America, and the world from nv(lear annihilation. We couldn't care less that he's an idiot or a puppet.
Don't misunderstand, Everything is still going downhill.. But at least it ain't rad1oa(tiv.
I'd say he's doing the exact opposite, we're at a far greater risk of nuclear war with Russia now that Trump has made NATO so weak. Our only hope to stop the conflict long-term is to crush Russia now as much as we can, and meanwhile form a block that they can't even hope to attack (which is quite a challenge). If not, in less than 5 years Russia will attack Estonia, and then it will be MUCH worse.
Giving in to demands from people who possess nuclear weapons is FAR more likely to result in nuclear escalation than not doing so, I think.
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I'd say he's doing the exact opposite, we're at a far greater risk of nuclear war with Russia now that Trump has made NATO so weak. Our only hope to stop the conflict long-term is to crush Russia now as much as we can, and meanwhile form a block that they can't even hope to attack (which is quite a challenge). If not, in less than 5 years Russia will attack Estonia, and then it will be MUCH worse.
Giving in to demands from people who possess nuclear weapons is FAR more likely to result in nuclear escalation than not doing so, I think.
You're wrong. Nato represents the greatest risk of escalation to Nu(lear exchange because it's tied to the American system.
America is one of the ONLY countries that DOES NOT, HAVE, a NO-1st-Use-Doctrine. IN FACT, it's actively pursuing funding and development for more select-yield tactical nvks. <to make nvks MORE usable>
Nearly every other country see Nvks only as a deterrent.
When they did the Able Archer study 83 (game theory), and later updated it, the USE of tacti(l nvks lead to FULL SCALE nvk War every single time.
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Losers
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What we need is Bernie Sanders.
If we get another Biden, 95% chance of WW3, If we get another puppet in the form of Obama, Cortez, Hillary, almost 100% chance of WW3.
The only election element that's important from HERE ON OUT, is WW3 and the complete idiocy of our deep state for profit military industrialism.
Nothing else matters, gay, straight, trans, black, white, brown, workers rights, climate change, if America start WW3, it's over.
Mid terms, go Blue, Presidency, depending on how the mid terms go, back to Red.
UNDERSTAND how the world works.
AMD wins performance, $999 CPU,
Intel wins $999 CPU,
When they're about the same perf, $200 CPU
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I'd say he's doing the exact opposite, we're at a far greater risk of nuclear war with Russia now that Trump has made NATO so weak. Our only hope to stop the conflict long-term is to crush Russia now as much as we can, and meanwhile form a block that they can't even hope to attack (which is quite a challenge). If not, in less than 5 years Russia will attack Estonia, and then it will be MUCH worse.
Giving in to demands from people who possess nuclear weapons is FAR more likely to result in nuclear escalation than not doing so, I think.
You're wrong. Nato represents the greatest risk of escalation to Nu(lear exchange because it's tied to the American system.
America is one of the ONLY countries that DOES NOT, HAVE, a NO-1st-Use-Doctrine. IN FACT, it's actively pursuing funding and development for more select-yield tactical nvks. <to make nvks MORE usable>
Nearly every other country see Nvks only as a deterrent.
When they did the Able Archer study 83 (game theory), and later updated it, the USE of tacti(l nvks lead to FULL SCALE nvk War every single time.
Yield to a tyrant who waves nuclear weapons in your face and soon everybody else with a dark agenda will be doing the same, because you're proving to them that it works. Not saying they should be completely ignored, because their treat power is their biggest asset and if that goes, you may as well use them. But we shouldn't just do everything anyone who scrapes together a nuke says.
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Yield to a tyrant who waves nuclear weapons in your face and soon everybody else with a dark agenda will be doing the same, because you're proving to them that it works. Not saying they should be completely ignored, because their treat power is their biggest asset and if that goes, you may as well use them. But we shouldn't just do everything anyone who scrapes together a nuke says.
The thing you got wrong, is , AMERICA is that tyrant, you've been brainwashed.
We are very lucky to live in our respective countries, but you need to read up on the real history, and get off mainstream media.
As for "USE THEM", we are coddled toddlers during peace time, You have no idea how bad war is, and you've only ever lived in comfort.
Now imagine NU(Lear war. It ends in 2 hours, and we get to watch society quickly unravel as everyone's back in the stone age, and the poisonous release quickly eradicates all land animals larger than roaches.
The way Nvks work, you don't have to hit anything at all. Even atmospheric detonations can cripple major electrical infrastructure for YEARS. Super grid transformers take years to build, they're backordered, and the vast majority, 95% are NOT produced in UK / US.
Even larger grid transformers 60-80% are not domestically produced.
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"These various initiatives and policy changes are often regarded as discrete problems, but they comprise a unified assault. The Trump administration has launched a comprehensive attack on knowledge itself, a war against culture, history, and science. If this assault is successful, it will undermine Americans’ ability to comprehend the world around us. Like the inquisitors of old, who persecuted Galileo for daring to notice that the sun did not, in fact, revolve around the Earth, they believe that truth-seeking imperils their hold on power.
By destroying knowledge, Trumpists seek to make the country more amenable to their political domination, and to prevent meaningful democratic checks on their behavior. Their victory, though, would do much more than that. It would annihilate some of the most effective systems for aggregating, accumulating, and applying human knowledge that have ever existed. Without those systems, America could find itself plunged into a new Dark Age."
- Adam Serwer - The Atlantic 2025-05-28
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Tp4 does not appreciate the new TACO.
Has the media thought about how this could damage the Reputation of actual veggie-Tacos and Burrito businesses..
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Too much not share, even though it isn't real. Or is it?
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:k3kwy4uvwxztqlvayqzk62f4/post/3lqhva54a6224 (https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:k3kwy4uvwxztqlvayqzk62f4/post/3lqhva54a6224)
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Bluesky is a cesspool of polarization and misinformation identical to Twitter and Truth Social.
Please do not get your news from there.
Taco has a far better reputation than Drump, if anything, attaching Taco to him only helps diffuse the gravity of his destructive behavior.
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The absolute and utter lack of a sense of humor in TP4 is a further piece of the evidence that "he" is an artificial entity.
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The absolute and utter lack of a sense of humor in TP4 is a further piece of the evidence that "he" is an artificial entity.
Tp4 will reduce his humor setting to 75% so fohat.dig can finally understand Tp4's superior capacity for joy and laughter.
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You guys are Ruining Tacos.
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Tp4's superior capacity for joy
You are right.
Somehow I have missed your expressions of joy.
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Tp4's superior capacity for joy
You are right.
Somehow I have missed your expressions of joy.
Most of Tp4's material is sarcastic, but based on real world stats and deep comprehension of the intricacies of the Torment Nexus which represent our capitalist economy.
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"Q: I'm asking if you've uncovered any information.
TRUMP: No. But I've uncovered the human mind. I was in a debate with the human mind."
- from Aaron Rupar 2025-06-05
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Tp4 will admit the hilarity of Tacobell.
But all the same. This is undue stress on the domain of Innocent A-politicl Taco'rs.
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Drumpf is desperate to declare martial law to get around all the obstacles that have been erected to halt his power grabs.
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Drumpf is desperate to declare martial law to get around all the obstacles that have been erected to halt his power grabs.
This is not "drumpf" wants to declare martial law.
This is the DeepState wants to declare martial law, and they want anyone and everyone out of their way.
Drump just like Biden/Obama/Clinton are puppets.
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Drumpf is desperate to declare martial law to get around all the obstacles that have been erected to halt his power grabs.
Honestly it doesn't look like that from here. It looks like he's already doing a whole bunch of stuff that a president isn't even allowed to do, almost daring people to stop him, which nobody is. He's just bullying his way through the country.
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Drumpf is desperate to declare martial law to get around all the obstacles that have been erected to halt his power grabs.
Honestly it doesn't look like that from here. It looks like he's already doing a whole bunch of stuff that a president isn't even allowed to do, almost daring people to stop him, which nobody is. He's just bullying his way through the country.
You guys attribute way more sophistication to what any "1" person can do.
He's a puppet.
There is an entire Cabal of the ruling class that wants exactly this.
This is America's Putin/Neanyahu/Henry8th/Hitler moment.
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he's already doing a whole bunch of stuff that a president isn't even allowed to do, almost daring people to stop him, which nobody is. He's just bullying his way through the country.
This is America's Putin/Neanyahu/Henry8th/Hitler moment.
I don't think we are there yet, because *some* of our guardrails are still holding.
While it is true that he is aggressively trying to bulldoze the envelope, there is still considerable push-back.
Even the Supreme Court still occasionally reins him in - and I suspect that even a few of them have become horrified at the monster that they have unleashed.
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America may have to decide. Does it want highspeed rail, climate action, vaccines, solar, wind, at the COST of civil-liberties, or does it want to continue the status quo of burning down the world.
None of those things can happen without autocracy and slavery.
Liberals are confused about why they don't have all those things. Government is a balance between freedom and action. It can't command Intense-Action without removing most-Freedom.
Look at the wealthy "happy" countries, Norway, Finland, etc. These are horrible dutch-diseased nations, they are entirely subsidized by the Global south. They produce very little of what they need, places where no one works. They take their advantaged arbitrage in banking, and BUY Everything.
If someone in THIS world, is working 8hr days, 4 day weeks in an office. There are 10x Indian farmers doing 365 days barely feeding his kids.
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Tp4 isn't hoping for fascism, but looking at the ineffective democratic experiment, especially in time-costs, we might not make it.
If we did the hard work, educated population, strong civic culture, etc, it might be alrite, but that's not what we have.
Now throw in Social-media epidemic, the young people are dumber and more superficial than ever.
What is democracy handed to these personalities.
This is not to shift blame around, everyone's at fault, but we are where we are. How can you right the course without overwhelming autocracy.
Democracy has devolved into what it is today, because it's a democracy of morons.
How do civilizations steer. We reduce to fascism/dicatorship/monarchy, The smarter dictators rise, we're hit with Clear-and-Present Calamity, the Dictator orders civic projects to address the crisis.
AS of current, you lock people into Congress, America has effectively 50 presidents, they debate for 20 years which State gets m0ar federal tax.
The current bureaucracy is paralyzed. What narrow-benefits there are, is that truly enough to offset the meteor that's about to hit us.
It's also a misnomer that the people have no rights under dictatorships, If it comes to that, and he does a bad job, Just cut his head off.
But, when you have 50 presidents, every single 1 wants exorbitant payment for their leg of the highspeed rail = NO highspeed rail, this is across ALL-sectors.
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Social-media epidemic, the young people are dumber and more superficial than ever.
Democracy has devolved into what it is today, because it's a democracy of morons.
I am afraid that I must agree with this. Not my kids, mind you, a chemist and a veterinarian, with well-rounded interests and educations, but unfortunately they are the exceptions.
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I am afraid that I must agree with this. Not my kids, mind you, a chemist and a veterinarian, with well-rounded interests and educations, but unfortunately they are the exceptions.
/scarcasm, if those kiddos share fohat's lofty naive views on what democracy-even-iz, Tp4 may question such scholastic-assessment. :D
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Further proposition for Dictatorship..
It doesn't have to be a Dump dictatorship.... Noosom can kill him, and win, and we can have Noosom dictatorship, doesn't sound so bad, fellow americans, yes o' no?
And in theory, somehow, maybe Bernie Sanders can kill all of them, and we can have King Sanders.
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LA scene is getting messier by the hour. Police concussed, pepper sprayed, and arrested the Union leader of LA which is a huge mistake. Calling for the arrest of the Governor after sending in the National Guard. Not too long now...
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If they do that. Nation wide revolt. Bernie Sanders for President is possible.
But odds are low. The democrats and republicans both would kill to prevent that.
More likely, the net result of this will be N_ 3t4n yahv, President of America.
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Holy ****! The fat freak has called out the actual military to LA.
I am guessing that even the Supreme Court will object to this. At least I hope so.
Will TP for Tissue pipe up and say that democrats would have done the same?
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Holy ****! The fat freak has called out the actual military to LA.
I am guessing that even the Supreme Court will object to this. At least I hope so.
Will TP for Tissue pipe up and say that democrats would have done the same?
We've never NOT been in a police state.
Don't know why Fohat is so hung up on this being new, it is not.
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They have surely planted agent provocateurs among the protesters. For example, a real protester would not jot Graffiti with "Antifa" and "Hate America" on billboards: that is just too obviously just for the MAGA crowd to see and get riled up about.
A real protester would write an actual message, to the point.
We've never NOT been in a police state.
No, it has not always been this bad. Things have been going downhill for USA for decades.
But those are not the same thing.
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going downhill for USA for decades.
The was a seismic change in the mid-late 1970s, and the election of Reagan in 1980 nailed it down.
The other spasm of anti-democratic fervor was in the mid-1990s when Newt Gingrich took over the House of Representatives.
Since Bush Jr and his "Patriot Act" the erosion of reason and honor has continued with gusto.
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People misinterpret the system to a great extent.
The police state is a "Dial."
When times are good, we can dial it DOWN. Plenty to go around, etc.
When times are less-good, we have to dial it UP, because the inefficiencies introduced by disagreement exacerbate the "Drain" on resources.
When you're poor, you have to be JUDICIOUS about your resources and expenses, As a PERSON, you are an Autocratic entity with Absolute Dominion of your "cell" container.
This is the SAME mechanistic principle operating in government.
What Findecanor__ is refering to "NOT THIS BAD", he's invoking memory of the GOOD TIMES, humanity has had throughout HIS-own Life-memory span.
This memory, does not reflect the Material, and Energy infrastructure reality of TODAY. And because the populist media is Deliberately-Blind to the actual Power-Systems of mankind, it is not a common frame of reference. The media and education system is there to keep the population obedient, it has no greater purpose.
The future of mankind is likely, Naturally, going to be extremely-autocratic as we've definitively reached the depletion of our emissions capacity.
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"As you sew, so shall ye reap"
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Seen on Craigs List -
"T-Mellon Events is looking for seat fillers and extras to provide their time for space maximization and attendance perception for an event taking place in Washington DC on June 14th. Extras and Seat fillers will check in on the morning of June 14th at 9:00 a.m.
Extras are required to wear Red, White and Blue clothing and will be provided a RED hat to wear. GOLD accessories are acceptable as well. The team will advise the extras where to stand or sit according to the line of sight from a VIP viewing platform area.
Extras and Seat fillers will be paid a flat daily fee and will be provided a lunch of fast food and soda.
We encourage people of color and ethnic groups to sign up for maximum perception control and these individuals will be prominently displayed on the televised broadcast and local viewing screens to be seen by the VIP platform."
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The main question Tp4 has is, How many 9070xt does it pay. Wouldn't do it for less than 2x 9070xt.
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Wouldn't do it for less than 2x 9070xt.
Don't be greedy. A MAGA hat, a Big Mac, and a Coke is quite a valuable consideration.
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Tp4 demands payment in 9070xt. Petrodo11r is completely unreliable.
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Some truly eye-opening statistics here:
https://www.whoismakingnews.com/ (https://www.whoismakingnews.com/)
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Let's hope ahy ran remains level headed, if they retaliate, that's exactly what Drump wants.
Start another conflict to cover for the failing petr o(|oller