A minority of Americans voted this buffoon into office. At this point, we deserve whatever he does. He feels emboldened this time around, and he should. We actually voted this stupid, incompetent, ignorant, anti-American degenerate into office — again. There’s little else to say.

The American people were getting Biden 2.0 either way, and the only thing they could choose from is in which packaging it came.

The American people were getting Biden 2.0 either way, and the only thing they could choose from is in which packaging it came. — Tzeentch

I think we’ve been down this road before. I don’t agree with it. It’s true that Trump has been Biden 2.0 in regards to Gaza and Ukraine. But on other consequential matters— especially climate change and nuclear proliferation — Trump is not the same. And those differences matter.

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I think we’ve been down this road before. I don’t agree with it. It’s true that Trump has been Biden 2.0 in regards to Gaza and Ukraine. But on other consequential matters— especially climate change and nuclear proliferation — Trump is not the same. And those differences matter. — Mikie

Yes, some people treat things very simplistic, as a set of only one policy against another, rather than a web of politics that comes with the elected. Trump is absolute chaos and screws up so many things for the US and the world that the bad of Biden would probably have been preferable to this mess Trump is creating.

The core problem is that US politics overall tries to cater to rural America more than urban areas. Rural America is gone, there’s no industry to sustain it. The hard working man that builds his own house is a dream that ended long ago, but these relics in politics still believe it to exist. They try to win votes from people in these areas on the idea that rural America will return to its glory days of industry. But there’s nothing to be gained from it. They get the votes, but these regions are more or less on their death bed and the abandonment of urban voters will backfire so hard when these relic politicians die off.

Both parties, but especially the republicans are facing extinction in the form they exist under now. Mamdani is a good example of how fed up many are with the stupid, corrupt, disgusting politicians.

The old ones need to die and die fast. The entire congress, senate, democrats and republicans are filled with 75-90 year old demented fools, believing themselves to exist in the mid-1900 political landscape. Out of touch, out of their minds.

And the only reason these people haven’t been pushed out of politics yet is because they have so many capitalists feeding them money while younger people doom scrolls TikTok more than actually getting into politics.

A revolution doesn’t need to be armed, it could just be people pushing these old relics out the door and updating politics to the actual times.

The simplistic ones are those who look at western political systems as a vehicle for meaningful change.

But, you know, good for you. You're nothing if not relentlessly positive.

in regards to Gaza and Ukraine — Mikie

Here's a poster. I'd include Hamas.

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You mean the group that published footage today of an emaciated hostage forced to dig his own grave? It's fine — he's a Zionist.

If we're listing heads of state whose soldiers have committed or likely committed war crimes, we could add Zelenskyy to that list.

Of course, Biden, Biden 2.0 (Kamala) or Biden 2.0* (Trump) was/is capable of and has/would have committed similar acts.

The only reason everybody is up in arms about it now, is because Trump falls outside their preference bubble, so now suddenly it matters. If one categorically ignores all the fucked up shit that their preferred candidate gets up to, then one might successfully delude oneself into believing that there exists a better alternative.

It is business as usual: the American people are placated with a spicy emotional melange of outrage and trumpeteering, unaware they're part of a circus.

Great new strategy: when something is presented that you don’t like, don’t simply dismiss it or call it “rigged” or a “hoax” (as has been done by Trump for years with polling, coronavirus figures, approval ratings, climate change evidence, etc). Instead, fire the person saying it.

Example: If it’s too hot outside for your liking, fire the guy who read the thermometer. Then launch an investigation about thermometers’ liberal bias. Problem solved.

No one wants cancer. That doctor who noticed a tumor? Fired. Situation resolved. Etc.

, this story? :D

Trump orders termination of labor statistics official after jobs report and downward revisions (— Fox · 2025 Aug 1)
Trump removes official overseeing jobs data after dismal employment report (— AP · 2025 Aug 1)
WATCH: ‘I think their numbers were wrong,’ Trump says after firing BLS head over jobs report (— PBS · 2025 Aug 2)
Trump defends firing labor statistics chief after weak jobs report (— The Hill · 2025 Aug 3)

I guess the numbers for the next few years will be Trumpified, unreliable/untrustworthy.

Attorney General Pam Bondi has ordered a grand jury investigation into the intelligence regarding President Trump and Russia in the run-up to the 2016 election.

She has directed Justice Department staff to begin legal proceedings and ordered a federal prosecutor to present evidence to a grand jury about the matter to secure a potential indictment, according to a source familiar with Bondi's efforts. It is unclear what the charges would be and who would be charged.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/doj-russiagate-trump-grand-jury-investigation/

The political scandal that duped hundreds of millions might finally generate some accountability.

The Putin’s propaganda in Russia instill the hatred for the West to Russians. One of its points is the excesses in the West relating LGBT – unpleasant gay parades, transgender athletes in big sports, and so on. The Putin’s propaganda states manipulatively, that these excesses are caused by democracy, especially in Europe, and the word “democracy” is partly connected for the Russians to gay parades (”Gayrope”). In reality, the situation is vice versa: the problems of the Western countries are caused by the lack of democracy (the ruling Left ignore the will of people). The Left has created a meme “democracy is not the power of majority, but the protection of minorities”, and pro-Putin Russians have believed in this meme. But recently the Americans had elected Trump, and the Trumpism is ideologically close to Putinism – Trump dislikes gender diversity too. So my question is, maybe eventually Trump will change the relation of Russians to democracy? What is he doing now to stop such things as promoting transgender athletes in sports?
I believe that there is a very easy way for Trump to stop the war in Ukraine: he must initiate an all-US referendum with suggestions to prohibit big sports for transgenders, and establish that there are only two genders, men and women. If such a referendum is performed, Russians will experience a cognitive dissonance – they will realize that democracy leads to prohibiting gender diversity – and their worldviews will evolute, so they would stop supporting Putin and his war. This is so simple…

I believe that there is a very easy way for Trump to stop the war in Ukraine: he must initiate an all-US referendum with suggestions to prohibit big sports for transgenders, and establish that there are only two genders, men and women. If such a referendum is performed, Russians will experience a cognitive dissonance – they will realize that democracy leads to prohibiting gender diversity – and their worldviews will evolute, so they would stop supporting Putin and his war. This is so simple… — Linkey

So the simple solution to stopping the war in Ukraine is to let Trump ban trans people from sports? :rofl:

And why would the Russian people get cognitive dissonance by that and not everything else that contradicts Putin? Why would that information specifically be something they manage to accept as outside information when the whole problem of information in Russia is that it’s constantly flooded with contradictions to make the people so confused as to grab onto the only reality that is tangible, which is the here and now for them locally.

They wouldn’t get that dissonance. All of that just sounds like a way to justify what Trump is doing in the most far out scenario possible :lol:

This is a joke, right?

This is a joke, right? — Mikie

No.

No. — Linkey

Cool. So now I know to ignore you in the future. :up:

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Did Trump accomplish something...?

U.S. secures strategic transit corridor in Armenia-Azerbaijan peace deal (— Steve Holland, Ross Colvin, Lincoln Feast · Reuters · 2025 Aug 7)

Naturally, it's to be called "The Trump Route". :D

Maybe Gamaleya will get foreign investors:

Cancer cure? Russia commences human trials of revolutionary personalized cancer vaccine (— The Economic Times · Aug 2, 2025)

RFK Jr. announces end to some mRNA contracts, including for flu, covid (— The Washington Post · Aug 6, 2025)

@ssu

It looks like the military has joined the fray against the drug cartels, just as you predicted.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/us/trump-military-drug-cartels.html

So the simple solution to stopping the war in Ukraine is to let Trump ban trans people from sports? :rofl: — Christoffer

I live in Russia, and I know the mentality of Russians. The Putin’s propaganda manipulatively states that Russia needs a “Tsar”, not the Western model. The Russians use the word “Gayrope” (Gay Europe), and many of them connect LGBT with the democracy in Europe (at least unconsciously). Some Russians use the word “dermocracy”, the word “dermo” in Russian means “sh…t”. As far as I know, only in German 80 years ago there was a similar word – “systemzeit”. This is caused by the fact that both Germans and Russians had been living under democracy with very big economic problems – the Weimar republic in Germany and the Yeltsin’s time in Russia. But I am sure that if Russians see that under democracy people can vote against transgenders, they (the Russians) will experience a cognitive dissonance.

Western democracy is a total shit show, so if the idea was to sell democracy to foreign countries then we are doing an awful job at it. We are giving off every sign that we're not just on a slippery slope - we're skiing down it at full speed, aiming directly for the trees at the bottom.

Western democracy is a total shit show — Tzeentch

What's the alternative?

Another Trump-brokered peace deal, this time between Armenia and Azerbaijan. “The deal includes an agreement that will create a major transit corridor to be named the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity.”

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-white-house-armenia-azerbaijan-069379e9c4a058c96af38afbf4684829

Malevolent vs. benevolent dispositions and conservative political ideology in the Trump era
^{— Craig S Neumann, Darlene A Ngo · Journal of Research in Personality · Jul 21, 2025}

:D

^{This Study Finds a Chilling Link Between Personality Type and Trump Support (— Tudor Tarita, Mihai Andrei · ZME Science · Jul 30, 2025)}

It looks like the military has joined the fray against the drug cartels, just as you predicted. — NOS4A2

Trump is a president that will do what he says.

Hope the US military will collaborate with Mexico, or it will be something like the US going after the Taleban in Pakistan earlier. The worst outcome is if the White House demands something "flashy" to come out of the operation or takes control over the operations, then the US can have another fiasco at their hands.

(BBC) Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, has rejected the idea that the US might invade Mexico after news reports suggested Donald Trump had authorized the use of military force targeting drug cartels deemed terrorist organizations in Latin American countries.

“The United States is not going to come to Mexico with their military,” she said during a daily news conference on Friday. “We cooperate, we collaborate, but there will be no invasion. It’s off the table, absolutely off the table.”

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Well, we just saw Ghislaine Maxwell being put into a minimum security prison after Trump's personal lawyer (now top DOJ official) went to talk to her. How convenient.



The Epstein case won't go away. More and more, I think it's really looking to be one historic conspiracy as the link to Israeli intelligence (or part of it) seems realistic. Otherwise Epstein's rise to have the ties that he had would be difficult to understand. And because both parties are involved and the US-Israeli connection is so delicate, likely the thing will be swept under the rug (as it has been now for years). Or then anyone referring to the link is accused to be an anti-semite racist.

Trump's authoritarian takeover of the United States is proceeding very smoothly - and with hardly any dissent! Now he is sending in federal police to take over Washington DC and ship the homeless off to internment camps so as not to offend the residents. Hardly a murmur of dissent. The plan is being executed flawlessly.

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:rofl:

Great one.

Some data worth reflecting on:

U.S. Image Declines in Many Nations Amid Low Confidence in Trump