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Dan HH
Profile Joined July 2012
Romania9189 Posts
October 23 2025 20:30 GMT
#106561
On October 23 2025 23:33 Jankisa wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 23 2025 23:22 LightSpectra wrote:
On October 23 2025 23:06 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
It must be a slow day in the news cycle, if we're back to arguing over how many times Trump has officially raped people over the decades that he's been sexually harassing, sexually assaulting, and raping adults and possibly children.

But at least he's not wearing a tan suit.


I'm reminded of when Roy Moore, failed 2017 Republican Senate candidate in Alabama, claimed the child predation he was accused of was a smear campaign by Democrats. It was later revealed that a local shopping mall banned him from the premises in the 1980s for sexually harassing pubescent girls there. He said Democrats were responsible for that too.


And despite all that coming out before the elections, he only lost by a little more then 1 %.

That should tell you all you need about how much Republicans actually care about children.

I also find it fascinating how the guy who is still super insulted over people reacting to Charlie Kirk's death doesn't understand how his whole political movement reacting to all these horrific things Trump did completely invalidates anything they have to say.

A British prime-minister, or French president, or German chancellor would kill for his virtually unchanged 42-44% approval rating. All this while doing in the open everything that every conspiracy theory about politicians anyone has ever imagined (other than cannibalism I guess), with the deftness of a toddler playing hide-and-seek behind the curtains.

Like trying to make the weirdest looking goblin in the character creation screen, the gods packed this man with as many negative character traits as possible without causing a stack overflow for a laugh, and at least 80 million grown ass adults are not in on the joke. Them never getting in on the joke is why there's no ceiling for the grift.

But let's look on the bright side, I'm thankful that he is 79. If he were 50 he wouldn't be building a ballroom but a harem room for teenagers demanded as tribute.
KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States43810 Posts
October 23 2025 20:51 GMT
#106562
It’s so weird it’s beyond parody. He gets up every morning and paints himself orange. A skin colour no real human has. And we know it’s not a medical condition because he does it in a splotchy way where you can still see his original skin colour in places. But he’s so incredibly awful and ridiculous that surface level bizarre and inexplicable things like “why is he orange” don’t make the cut. We don’t have time for that with “why is he declaring war on American cities” also going on.
ModeratorThe angels have the phone box
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland26504 Posts
October 23 2025 21:54 GMT
#106563
On October 24 2025 04:48 Simberto wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 24 2025 04:45 Hat Trick of Today wrote:
lol CZ of Binance fame just got pardoned because of course he did.


I gotta say. Trump is really a massive innovator in the realm of corrupt grift. He constantly invents new ways to personally profit from his position as president that no other person has come up with before.

(I will assume that Trump somehow got paid for this)

He’s an innovator in the sense he goes against the general corruption/fraud handbook and does it all fully out in the open.

It’s a complete joke
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
Simberto
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Germany11791 Posts
October 23 2025 21:55 GMT
#106564
On October 24 2025 06:54 WombaT wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 24 2025 04:48 Simberto wrote:
On October 24 2025 04:45 Hat Trick of Today wrote:
lol CZ of Binance fame just got pardoned because of course he did.


I gotta say. Trump is really a massive innovator in the realm of corrupt grift. He constantly invents new ways to personally profit from his position as president that no other person has come up with before.

(I will assume that Trump somehow got paid for this)

He’s an innovator in the sense he goes against the general corruption/fraud handbook and does it all fully out in the open.

It’s a complete joke


But it works. So he is basically an innovator completely disrupting the corruption space.
Billyboy
Profile Joined September 2024
1610 Posts
October 23 2025 23:28 GMT
#106565
My hope, that is fading everyday, is that Trumps incredibly blatant corruption will eventually become so offensive that Republican's finally stop saying "but Harris would be worse" and Americans decide, "we need actual anti corruption laws and enforcement". Then arrest a bunch of shit heads from both parties.

Then the rest of the world can finally copy something good from the US.
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland26504 Posts
October 23 2025 23:57 GMT
#106566
On October 24 2025 08:28 Billyboy wrote:
My hope, that is fading everyday, is that Trumps incredibly blatant corruption will eventually become so offensive that Republican's finally stop saying "but Harris would be worse" and Americans decide, "we need actual anti corruption laws and enforcement". Then arrest a bunch of shit heads from both parties.

Then the rest of the world can finally copy something good from the US.

If only. Republicans are seemingly a lost cause by and large, at least in the short term.

At this rate I don’t think we’ll see any shift until Trump dies. Whoever the next guy or gal (that’s probably unlikely) is I think will still have to contend with Trump sniping from the sidelines and have to hit various purity tests.

You have two real paths out of this mess, either people who’ve shown theyee absolutely happy with a Fascist running the show, to reject Fascism for, whatever reason. Or the formal party and political structures take the Fascism off the menu and go back to being more standard conservatives.

Of the two I would consider one much more likely than the other.
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
Jankisa
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Croatia1324 Posts
October 24 2025 00:11 GMT
#106567
Speaking of insane shit that doesn't even make the news anymore, the White house website:

[image loading]
So, are you a pessimist? - On my better days. Are you a nihilist? - Not as much as I should be.
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24767 Posts
October 24 2025 00:33 GMT
#106568
Yeah we joke around at work about how the "New York Times Test"* doesn't seem that restrictive anymore.

+ Show Spoiler [*New York Times Test] +
For government workers, you are encouraged to think if what you are doing, or what you are writing, would look bad if the New York times saw it and considered writing an article about it. Lately, it seems like most of the bad things we can do just wouldn't make the news or would get ignored if published.
ModeratorThere are animal crackers for people and there are people crackers for animals.
DarkPlasmaBall
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States45434 Posts
October 24 2025 01:18 GMT
#106569
On October 24 2025 09:11 Jankisa wrote:
Speaking of insane shit that doesn't even make the news anymore, the White house website:

[image loading]


After all these years, Trump still has Obama Derangement Syndrome.
"There is nothing more satisfying than looking at a crowd of people and helping them get what I love." ~Day[9] Daily #100
KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States43810 Posts
October 24 2025 01:20 GMT
#106570
Do they think Biden controls the date of Easter?
ModeratorThe angels have the phone box
DarkPlasmaBall
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States45434 Posts
October 24 2025 01:23 GMT
#106571
On October 24 2025 10:20 KwarK wrote:
Do they think Biden controls the date of Easter?

It's all part of the War On Christmas Easter.
"There is nothing more satisfying than looking at a crowd of people and helping them get what I love." ~Day[9] Daily #100
Phyanketto
Profile Joined September 2011
United States601 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-10-24 03:47:58
October 24 2025 03:46 GMT
#106572
On October 23 2025 21:42 Simberto wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 23 2025 21:36 KwarK wrote:
Germany is famously unable to defend itself.


To be fair, we did lose the last big wars we were in.

Ideology aside it's because the rest of the world united to fight you. Ww1 was basically a "Germany containment war" because of the sheer amount of ass you kicked 1871-1911 and ww2 was basically a "we're Germany how dare you try to contain us" war. You taught the rest of Europe how to fight and if you were armed and bellicose you could take Russia 1-on-1 easily. Honestly I'd rather you guys be the shield of democracy than us at this point.
On October 24 2025 10:20 KwarK wrote:
Do they think

No
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KT_Elwood
Profile Joined July 2015
Germany1138 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-10-24 08:47:24
October 24 2025 08:45 GMT
#106573
On October 23 2025 23:06 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
It must be a slow day in the news cycle, if we're back to arguing over how many times Trump has officially raped people over the decades that he's been sexually harassing, sexually assaulting, and raping adults and possibly children.

But at least he's not wearing a tan suit.


I guess the remaining 12 journalists in the world have a burnout already and can't make newstories for others to copy pasta or twist.

- 200 Million renovation "not touching East wing" has become a 300 million renovation, East wing of the WH is totally demolished, without permit because..demolition doesn't require permit, only building new. Says KKKaroline.

Trump Admin tries to ban Journalists from taking pictures of "Ground Zero for democracy".

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-white-house-lied-about-destroying-the-east-wing.html

[image loading]


The official WH website's timeline of the WH renovations has been..."trumped up" with events that somehow needed to be included in the history of Construction, renovations and remodeling..

But spot them yourself

https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/the-white-house/

EDIT: Janiska already spotted them

- Trump wants to have 230 Million Dollars from the DOJ in legal expenses and damages suffered for being criminal

- Trump pardoned a Crypto-Bro that siphons money back to him and has helped Trump Org to set up multiple crypto-grifts in the past







"First he eats our dogs, and then he taxes the penguins... Donald Trump truly is the Donald Trump of our generation. " -DPB
DarkPlasmaBall
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States45434 Posts
October 24 2025 08:49 GMT
#106574
The Democrats just tried to "allow all military service members, federal employees and contractors to receive the pay that they have missed so far during the shutdown" and "prevent the Trump administration from attempting mass layoffs of federal workers during the shutdown, employee restructurings known as reductions in force". Guess how that went: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5569758-ron-johnson-chris-van-hollen-shutdown-pay-bill/

Once again, Republicans are declaring that this shutdown is their mess, and that they don't care about Americans.
"There is nothing more satisfying than looking at a crowd of people and helping them get what I love." ~Day[9] Daily #100
Uldridge
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Belgium5090 Posts
October 24 2025 09:17 GMT
#106575
Just not paying people is a very simple way to reduce costs. The bloat and waste and fraud is very easy to trim when you starve it out.
Also, don't be surprised when it completely blows up in your face.
Taxes are for Terrans
Velr
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Switzerland10870 Posts
October 24 2025 09:23 GMT
#106576
When your mission is to destroy the goverment and rule of law, this seems like a perfect way to do it?
Even if stuff gets resolved sooner or later, the damage is done?
Gorsameth
Profile Joined April 2010
Netherlands22190 Posts
October 24 2025 09:35 GMT
#106577
On October 24 2025 18:23 Velr wrote:
When your mission is to destroy the goverment and rule of law, this seems like a perfect way to do it?
Even if stuff gets resolved sooner or later, the damage is done?
That was always the Republican way.

Complain government programs are bad, then gut those programs when in power causing them to fail, then point at the program you gutted as an example that government programs are bad.
It ignores such insignificant forces as time, entropy, and death
Harris1st
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Germany7139 Posts
October 24 2025 09:43 GMT
#106578
On October 24 2025 18:35 Gorsameth wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 24 2025 18:23 Velr wrote:
When your mission is to destroy the goverment and rule of law, this seems like a perfect way to do it?
Even if stuff gets resolved sooner or later, the damage is done?
That was always the Republican way.

Complain government programs are bad, then gut those programs when in power causing them to fail, then point at the program you gutted as an example that government programs are bad.


I thought that is something just done to programs of the other party/ the last government implemented?
Go Serral! GG EZ for Ence. Flashbang dance FTW
decafchicken
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
United States20154 Posts
October 24 2025 16:51 GMT
#106579
On October 24 2025 18:43 Harris1st wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 24 2025 18:35 Gorsameth wrote:
On October 24 2025 18:23 Velr wrote:
When your mission is to destroy the goverment and rule of law, this seems like a perfect way to do it?
Even if stuff gets resolved sooner or later, the damage is done?
That was always the Republican way.

Complain government programs are bad, then gut those programs when in power causing them to fail, then point at the program you gutted as an example that government programs are bad.


I thought that is something just done to programs of the other party/ the last government implemented?


Not really. Republicans don't really put any programs into place that help people so there's not anything to gut. This is the republican budget from when Trump took office:

$2 trillion from Medicaid – up to $1 trillion from cutting the base program plus another $1 trillion from repealing the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion;
$887 billion from already-low non-defense discretionary funding levels, putting a broad array of programs serving low-income populations such as housing assistance, WIC, job training, and others at risk of deep funding cuts;
$185 billion from federal college aid for low-income students;
$157 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; and
$0.6 trillion from other income security programs, a category where most spending is for safety-net programs such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, child nutrition, Supplemental Security Income for the aged and disabled, Unemployment Insurance, refundable tax credits for low-income workers, and child care.


The "programs" that biden "cut":

Targeted budget cuts: the Biden administration cut spending on what it deems wasteful corporate subsidies, such as those benefiting the oil and gas industry, reducing excessive payments to medicare providers, real estate tax subsidies, crypto subsidies, and unnecessary prison expansion
Border Wall Construction: On his first day in office, President Biden terminated the national emergency declaration used by the Trump administration to divert military funding for the construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Muslim Travel Ban: Biden reversed Trump's executive orders that restricted entry into the U.S. for travelers from several predominantly Muslim and African countries.
Keystone XL Pipeline: The presidential permit for the Keystone XL oil pipeline was revoked
Paris Climate Accord: Biden rejoined the Paris Agreement on climate change, from which the Trump administration had officially withdrawn.
Regulatory Rollbacks: This included rescinding rollbacks of vehicle emissions standards and imposing a moratorium on oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and
Federal worker protections: Biden revoked executive orders from the Trump administration that had limited the collective bargaining and due process rights of federal employees.
Anti-discrimination policies: An executive order was signed to ensure the federal government does not discriminate based on sexual orientation or gender identity, reversing prior policies


Then obviously trump doubled down on all the previous cuts to social programs and more from his first term while spending trillions on tax breaks for the 1%, turning ICE into a top 15 military force in the world, etc.
how reasonable is it to eat off wood instead of your tummy?
Velr
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Switzerland10870 Posts
October 24 2025 19:21 GMT
#106580
On October 24 2025 18:43 Harris1st wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 24 2025 18:35 Gorsameth wrote:
On October 24 2025 18:23 Velr wrote:
When your mission is to destroy the goverment and rule of law, this seems like a perfect way to do it?
Even if stuff gets resolved sooner or later, the damage is done?
That was always the Republican way.

Complain government programs are bad, then gut those programs when in power causing them to fail, then point at the program you gutted as an example that government programs are bad.


I thought that is something just done to programs of the other party/ the last government implemented?


Uhm, what programs?

I guess you could call the massive funding increase for ICE a "program" but I doubt you meant that.
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