dey'gon'git'Drumph'dis'tine'o'no?

[noisyturtle]

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

[fohat.digs]

the name of this thread is stupid

And toilet paper for tissue isn't?

Sometimes there is an advantage to obscuring things from searches.

[tp4tissue]

fohat.dig has been moved from do-not-kill list, to maybe kill list 50/50. 

[Leslieann]

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.

[fohat.digs]

"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

[tp4tissue]

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.

[tp4tissue]

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.

[tp4tissue]

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.

[fohat.digs]

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.

[tp4tissue]

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

[fohat.digs]

All we can do is to bend the arc of history toward justice, and any vote not cast for a serious contender is wasted.

[tp4tissue]

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.

[Leslieann]

Fohat, you are misunderstanding something dire.

The democrats, radical left, you so vehemantly identify with. They are Radically Violent.

What can you expect from a guy who can barely tell the two parties apart.

[chyros]

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.

[fohat.digs]

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.

[TomahawkLabs]

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.

[chyros]

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.

[tp4tissue]

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.

[tp4tissue]

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.

[fohat.digs]

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

[noisyturtle]

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.

[tp4tissue]

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

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.

[tp4tissue]

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.

[chyros]

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

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.

[tp4tissue]

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.

[fohat.digs]

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.

[tp4tissue]

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.

[fohat.digs]

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.

[tp4tissue]

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.

[Findecanor]

Very strong words from European prime ministers and majority leaders today about Trump's and Vance's treatment of Zelensky.

[tp4tissue]

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.

[tp4tissue]

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.

[fohat.digs]

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

[fohat.digs]

"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

[tp4tissue]

IDK, Trump always talk like that.

[noisyturtle]

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.

[fohat.digs]

 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.

[noisyturtle]

 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!

[tp4tissue]

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.

[fohat.digs]

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 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 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?"

[fohat.digs]

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/

[tp4tissue]

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.

[tp4tissue]

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.

[fohat.digs]

She's getting a bit chunky there.

TP4 - quintessential expert on all things female
 

[tp4tissue]

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.

[tp4tissue]

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.

[fohat.digs]

Destroying the Post Office has been a Republican wet dream for a while now.
Even though it was specifically created in the Constitution.

[noisyturtle]

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....

[tp4tissue]

It was staged.

[fohat.digs]

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/