https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/us/politics/defense-intelligence-agency-chief-fired.html

:rofl:

It’s raining out— fire the meteorologist.

This guy was elected. Twice. Just shows how stupid Americans are.

Making America Alone Again

But what would an elderly Canadian know.

How's the weather in Kiev?

Has there been ANY successes yet in this administration (in reality — not the delusions of the cult)? Domestically, I see nothing. I see failure after failure, and the setting of precedents that the current party in power will regret. Also irreparable damage to the environment, rule of law, and world reputation.

On the foreign policy front, there may be minor successes (mostly exaggerated), and bumbling attempts at peace, but so far no real results. Especially in Gaza and Ukraine.

Meanwhile, his polling numbers are tanking and his signature policy bill is deeply unpopular.

Republicans will get wiped out in 2026, with or without their blatant cheating.

Don’t underestimate US stupidity. They may win again… with cheating.

I think the problem is that both sides view Trump as someone with a plan or agenda. All I see is someone who’s going with the flow, following a trend, fully focused on placing all eyes on himself through different forms of embarrassing, improvised behavior, in front of all the cameras.

World politics is pushed around by the consequences of one man’s narcissistic ego trip to feel good… there’s no plan, it’s a child playing with his toys and people try to react within the confines of law, reason, and society to confront and battle him.

It’s more embarrassing to see the world deal with Trump, than the man himself.

It says something about the power of elites, their control of propaganda, the education system, and the general social and economic conditions which lead to the voluntary election of an ignorant, degenerate fraud.

It also tells us something about the Democratic Party, and just how crappy they have to be to have the majority prefer sitting at home and letting Trump run the country into the ground rather than vote “for” their anointed candidate.

But if they are indeed all funded by the US state department (which I doubt in some cases), isn't it all the more impressive that they are also quite critical of developments in the US? — Tobias

Well then, let me dispell all your doubts by pointing out it's right there on their websites under 'Funding'.

Look at the classified documents the FBI found stashed in John Bolton's bathroom!

No....wait.....

It also tells us something about the Democratic Party, — Mikie

Yeah, too many regular people in the Democratic Party. You know, people who go out and organise neighborhood events and waste time on community activism and grassroots stuff. Everyone knows they really need a charismatic huckster who can flood the airwaves. Poor fools, they should get with the times.

Don’t be a sap. You know very well that’s exactly what I advocate. I assume your “too many regular people” line isn’t sarcastic, but it should be. Regular people like Jeffries and Schumer and Pelosi? Please.

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It's only that I see the Democrats being written off everywhere, 'bleeding voters', 'dire poll ratings'. And this, as the United States are quite visibly barrelling towards being a one-party State. The moves in Texas this week to tilt the electoral map, Trump's constant use of bogus 'emergencies', and many other factors - I think it's possible that there won't even be a 2028 Election. So the narrative of the Democrats being hopeless plays right into that.

Not hopeless, just vacuous. Mamdani is a bright spot.

Has there been ANY successes yet in this administration (in reality — not the delusions of the cult)? — Mikie

Illegal immigration at the Southern border has slowed to a trickle, stock market is up 6%.

they're all funded by the US department of state — Tzeentch

Nope. They have all kinds of funding, some including from the US State Department, the Economist Intelligence Unit mostly from revenue, ... It varies, yet these freedom type results are fairly similar. You can also find methodologies.

Illegal immigration at the Southern border has slowed to a trickle, stock market is up 6%. — RogueAI

Slowed to a trickle, yes. Which will be a disaster, since immigration is a good thing and there never was a problem to begin with, other than a backlog. But I guess this was a fulfilled goal.

As for stocks being up— yes, as they have been for years. Where the 6% comes from is anyone’s guess. 6% in what index? From when?

Slowed to a trickle, yes. Which will be a disaster, since immigration is a good thing and there never was a problem to begin with, other than a backlog. But I guess this was a fulfilled goal. — Mikie

Legal immigration is a good thing, illegal immigration is not. The Southern border was a festering wound during the Biden Admin that only started to get addressed at the tail end of his presidency. It's a big reason why Harris lost.

As for stocks being up— yes, as they have been for years. Where the 6% comes from is anyone’s guess. 6% in what index? From when? — Mikie

This is from GoogleAi, I assume it's fairly accurate:

"Total returns (through mid-2025):
S&P 500: For the year-to-date through August 11, 2025, the index was up 8.4%.
Wilshire 5000: Between January 17 and July 18, 2025, this broad market index had a total return of 4.8%.
Nasdaq 100: This tech-heavy index was up over 14% since the November 2024 election as of August 21, 2025"

An 8% return on the S&P500 in less than a year with inflation under 3% is laudable. This is just a continuation of a trend that was happening at the end of Biden's term, but historically, presidents get credit/blame for the economy during their tenure, and the doom&gloom predicted from the tariffs has yet to materialize.

I'm praying that the reports I'm hearing about Trump's imminent demise are true, but to say nothing good has happened under him is just wrong. I would also add he set back Iran's nuke program with no casualties and no blowback (so far). He's also pushed back against the insanity of tolerating men in women's sports. That's a trivial issue as far as the well being of the country goes, but it's one of those 70-30 wedge issues the Democrats managed to get on the wrong side of. Prominent Dems like Gavin Newsom are finally coming around on it. It was a significant factor in Harris's loss.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/poll-americans-oppose-trans-women-competing-female-sports-2-3-gen-z-rcna203658
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/02/26/americans-have-grown-more-supportive-of-restrictions-for-trans-people-in-recent-years/

stock market is up 6%. — RogueAI

That's coming from expectation of the Fed dropping interest rates in September. But the CPI is up, so we may not get it.

I think the other factor is that people have been expecting a recession since before Trump was elected, and it's never come, so it's a boy cried wolf situation.

But yea, the notion that everything has gone to shit is just clearly in conflict with reality.

Legal immigration is a good thing, illegal immigration is not — RogueAI

Illegal immigration is good too. Should be more of it.

The Southern border was a festering wound — RogueAI

If by that you mean a manufactured problem that countless people believed, mostly because they want someone to blame for their shitty lives — then sure.

S&P 500: For the year-to-date through August 11, 2025, the index was up 8.4%. — RogueAI

:up:

I suppose this is a success— despite his best efforts to crash it.

but to say nothing good has happened under him is just wrong. — RogueAI

Yeah, no one’s said that. Plenty of good things — but mostly in spite of this administration’s policies and choices. And that’s the point.

Strawmen are usually the first sign of a shallow mind.

everything has gone to shit — frank

Case in point.

Trump keeps pulling this one ...

This dire public safety crisis stems directly from the abject failures of the city's local leadership… — Donald J. Trump · Aug 11, 2025

Crime stats in big blue cities are fake. The real rates of crime, chaos & dysfunction are orders of magnitude higher.
Everyone who lives in these areas knows this. They program their entire lives around it.
Democrats are trying to unravel civilization. Pres Trump will save it. — Stephen Miller · Aug 12, 2025

the stats that they gave because they turned out to be a total fraud
the real stats, the stats went through the roof — President Trump calls Washington, DC crime stats a 'fraud' amid crime decrease · WUSA9 · Aug 13, 2025

D.C. gave Fake Crime numbers in order to create a false illusion of safety. This is a very bad and dangerous thing to do, and they are under serious investigation for so doing! Until 4 days ago, Washington, D.C., was the most unsafe “city” in the United States, and perhaps the World. Now, in just a short period of time, it is perhaps the safest, and getting better every single hour! People are flocking to D.C. again, and soon, the beautification will begin! — Donald J. Trump · Aug 18, 2025

What are the supposed real, (magnitude) higher numbers that he's using for comparison?
It's a standard case of "Put up or shut up", especially before doing anything.

Furthermore, he keeps pulling it (msn) and the population, including many politicians, keep tolerating it; where are the responses with potential consequences?
Further furthermore, the number of False or misleading statements by Donald Trump keep increasing, which was record-setting some time ago (also check CNN / Colbert from 2020).
Regress for all to see; I'm sure US adversaries are delighted, and the Trumpists appear oblivious.

He is a bright spot— and we do need more immigration. Illegal or otherwise. That you’re so far brainwashed into believing both of these things are somehow ridiculous only reveals what a waste of time you are. Enjoy your mainstream narrative (propaganda) and stay thoughtless.

Another disgraceful illustration of corruption in Trump's America




This is a gift link to a New York Times exposé of the way that those who were tasked with prosecuting the January 6 Rioters were treated after Trump regained power. Summarily sacked, dismissed, demoted, walked out of offices. Some excerpts.

[Michael]Gordon was heading up on this steaming late July day in Tampa, Fla., to collect his things and say goodbye. Three weeks earlier, and just two days after receiving yet another outstanding performance review, he had been interviewing a witness online when a grim-faced colleague interrupted to hand him a letter. It said he was being “removed from federal service effective immediately” — as in, now.

Although the brief letter, signed by Attorney General Pam Bondi, provided no justification, Mr. Gordon knew the likely reason: Jan. 6, 2021.

He was being fired for successfully prosecuting people who had stormed the United States Capitol that day — assaulting police officers, vandalizing a national landmark and disrupting that sacrosanct moment in a democracy, the transfer of presidential power.

He was being fired for doing his job.

The letter did more than inform Mr. Gordon, a 47-year-old father of two, that he was unemployed. It confirmed for him his view that the Justice Department he had been honored to work for was now helping to whitewash a traumatic event in American history, supporting President Trump’s reframing of its violence as patriotic — and those who had prosecuted rioters in the name of justice as villains, perhaps even traitors. ...

By tradition, the [Justice] department long steered clear of White House intervention. Now, to remedy what the president has deemed the past weaponization of Justice, it has been deployed as a weapon for his score-settling and political crusades. To that end, it has sought to investigate and perhaps prosecute those who once investigated and prosecuted Mr. Trump and his allies, from the former special counsel, Jack Smith, to New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, to former President Barack Obama.

The template for that transformation was Jan. 6 — the pardons and then the purge.

To date, the Justice Department has fired or demoted more than two dozen prosecutors who were assigned to hold the rioters accountable — roughly a quarter of the complement. Some were junior prosecutors, like Sara Levine, who had secured a guilty plea from a rioter who had grabbed a police officer. Others were veterans, including Greg Rosen, who had led the department’s Jan. 6 task force. Scores more prosecutors, involved in these and other cases, have left, either in fear of where the ax might next fall or out of sheer disgust.

...The Justice Department declined to comment for this article, but a White House spokesman, Harrison Fields, described the agency during the Biden administration as “a cabal of anti-Trump sycophants” engaged in a “relentless pursuit to throw the book at President Trump and his allies.” By “uprooting the foot soldiers,” Mr. Fields added, Mr. Trump’s attorney general, Ms. Bondi, “is restoring the integrity of the department.”

, were you thinking of this (poster)?



I'm in. I'm not on board with the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Not that anything here is about me, though.

Why has Donald Trump not spoken out about the famine in Gaza? | Inside Story (— Al Jazeera · Aug 25, 2025 · 27m:55s)

As mentioned before, there's more than one problem, ongoing existential threat to Israel, ongoing injustices to Palestinians, ... Apparently, many can't see one for the other.

Which post of mine you were referring to?

I'm not on board with any humanitarian crisis in Gaza either; the only people who should be getting punished are genocidal Palestinian militant groups and the civilians who take part in their activities. It still baffles my mind that on 10/7, over 2000 Palestinian civilians took part in the atrocities. Obviously, I don't want any innocent Gazan to suffer, but innocents are always killed in war, especially in urban warfare. I condemn all Israeli injustices, of course.

, you can click on your name () to find the older post. The current Gaza situation is a humanitarian disaster. (If I remember right, Biden started putting pressure on Netanyahu.)

It's seemingly impossible to find objective info on this matter.

IMHO, Gaza was a humanitarian disaster even before the war. Any land that kidnaps and murders political dissidents and homosexuals is a humanitarian disaster. War, of course, brings humanitarian catastrophe, and it is not helping that Hamas hoards food and murders its own citizens. There's apparently quite a bit of infighting occurring between the factions. I want to move the civilians to a safer location, but this is apparently now "supporting genocide."

The whole world hates Israel.

Trump’s EO regarding flag burning is so stupid, so easily dismissed both by law and by precedent, that it makes me believe there is an ulterior motive. Hate speech laws are the relics of the typical nanny state. People should be able to burn flags, holy books, and burn rubber on rainbow-painted crosswalks without fear of state reprisal. The dumbest idea of the Trump administration since floating the vape ban.

Obviously not.

Obviously not. — AmadeusD

I discussed it with the world the other day and it said it definitely hates Israel.