Mephistopheles

I guess glad that you admit that he's a strongman. Strongmen do arise when cultures are threatened, not sure I've ever heard that it is a good thing to threaten the Democracy. And really what are we even talking about? Just take the immigration thing, which seems to be the #1 concern for the cult. What if instead of a deranged narcissist, or a senile guy who kept borders open, we had a normal person in line of Obama or Romney? Perhaps that would have been the safer route so you don't risk blowing the whole place up. The other major "culture" issue is the sex change/gender dysphoria stuff which, thanks to our system of law, is a state/local issue NOT federal. People vote for the strongman on an emotional level even though it's not his problem to solve. Same for the inner city violent crime issue.

Speaking of the left's problems, they've clearly alientaed men with the toxic femininity, esp Gen Z and millennials who went towards Trump who represents a TV version of a macho man. Problem is even worse for white males as the left has been successful in alienating both their race and their gender! But a real man stands up to bullies, and Trump is a bully

Unless we are talking about the Capitol Police. Fuck those guys lol Agreed with the sentiment, just don't think having a deranged autorcrat is the answer

Now Marjorie T Greene is receiving death threats. Just like Pence, the poll workers, and whomever else drew the ire of the cult leader. Totally normal

Lol^ Random thought: Imagine Trump in a real life Air Force One (movie) scenario. How would he react. Funny answers only. Then do Biden

my god what a lunatic

Guys, please keep the investing talk off this thread or else I’m going to report you to Parsad.

The real question isn't whether Trump is in the Epstein files (he is) or the extent of his sexual abuse (he's confessed it). The really interesting thing is will this be when the GOP dumps him?! Almost happened after Jan 6. Maybe this will be it. For sure Greene and Boebert will bail, but these things start slowly and then quickly. Gonna be interesting. Not holding my breath.

Glad we finally agree on something! https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/12/donald-trump-miss-usa-dressing-room-2001-rehearsal

Really, why would a pussy grabber who walks in on teen dressing rooms have done anything bad in his tenure as bff with a sex trafficker! Maybe there isn't anything worse in the files, maybe there is, idk, but one thing is for sure - if there is damaging evidence, "what about Bill Clinton?" will be the new line from the cult.

I think the idea was that the very real (not phony) criminal indictments for Jan 6 and failing to hand over classified documents would be enough to deter people for voting him into office against a guy he already lost to. They failed to see the dedication of the cult (and in fairness the dementia of Biden).

It's obvious why the files weren't released under Biden in order to sink Trump. The files implicate people across the political spectrum and everyone thought the Trump era was over post 2020. Why go after Trump when he's gone, if that means implicating friends such as Bill Clinton, Larry Summers? This also means that it's not necessarily correct that there is no (further) damaging Trump info in the files.

He was at the white house yesterday with a bunch of other finance bros (Dimon, Fink etc.) At least for a trade, it's got to be worth picking up some common and prefs as they've both come down nicely last couple of days.

I think the Maxwell pardon will be a good thing in terms of creating cracks in the base. Epstein (releasing files), and anti child sex trafficking seems to be one of the few things where there is bipartisan support for. So much so that Marjorie Taylor Greene has developed TDS!

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They (the Democrats) are awful, cringeworthy, and really a bunch of pussies. They deserve more than their fair share of culpability for the rise of Trump. Just, Trump is unique in his threat that’s worse than the above. That’s all I’m saying but totally agree that both sides are to blame for most of all our problems.

When you say this, it’s implied that both sides are equivalent in their corruption. It’s a way to show fairness as an anti Trumper. But; saying “both sides” really minimizes the insanity of Trump’s brand of (authoritarian) corruption…everything else just pales.

I'm not sure if it's 1% or more. But, just IMO, this is not the only sign that's concerning. Ok, so you have some bad ICE apples, that can be a premise. Or the other premise is that this is some stage of fascism. Then you just look at all the other evidence of the latter, and then suddenly these seem part of a broader pattern. But this is like that blue vs gray dress meme from ~10 years ago, you either see the blue or you see the grey and you think the other side is nuts!

Apparently POTUS’s bedtime reading was Hitler’s speeches according to his wife (the one buried in the golf course) But I’m sure it was because he admired Hitler’s orator skills and nothing more

Ok! Then prosecute the cities Irrelevant to the point of respecting the dignity of people whether US citizens or illegals there’s a less dramatic way of doing it, like Obama did, but it loses the affect of tickling Stephen Miller’s fancy

All: so sorry for referring to ICE as Gestapo. I must have the same case of TDS that JD Vance has in comparing Trump to Hitler.

Trump the pragmatist said it’s not feasible to provide due process for millions of people. So at least he’s admitting it… Didn’t we lock up a bunch of Japanese Americans in WW2. That was a Democrat. This whole ordeal kind of reminds me of that

No matter how many times one agrees that deporting illegals is correct just don’t trample on rights and don’t be inhumane, the answer is: “they shouldn’t have broken the law”.

Yes, boiling frog. And in this case the frogs are the non MAGA, non TDS spineless and bystanders. How anyone with a brain can justify having this maniac in office after Jan 6 is insane! Funnily enough, I'm sure none of this group of shrewd value investors would want Trump running any of their companies or their portfolio. lol

Yes will concede about the child separation thing under Obama. Nothing wrong with ICE. Again the problem is the cruelty and (arguably more importantly) the erosion of due process/rights - all in the broader picture of IMO authoritarian tendencies across the board unrelated to ICE. And by no means has anti-Constitutional stuff happened only under Trump. For example, NSA wiretapping was created under Bush and expanded under Obama who campaigned against it. Just in this case we have a clown who is surrounded by fascists. I don't think Trump himself is a fascist as much as he's self serving, luckily. But that means whomever kisses his ass gets their way no matter how terrible. I'm sure little Stephen Miller feels like a big man when he sees his ICE thugs zip tie 12 year olds!