Trumps Presidency 2025

[Tigerbomb13]

 

[Motown Bombers]

Why is Joe Biden doing this?

[RatkoVarda]

If Iranian agents attack America, it will be all Biden's fault, unless they attack California, in which case it will be Newsome's fault, or attack Chicago, in which case it will be Obama's fault

 

 

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[Tigerbomb13]

4 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

Jesus Christ. Are we going to make it through the next three and a half years?

Edited 14 hours ago by Tigerbomb13

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[RatkoVarda]

Fox New Alert: Rubio begs China to not let Iran close the Straight of Hormuz, showing just how little the world respects Obama.

[LaceyLou]

19 minutes ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

Jesus Christ. Are we going to make it through the next three and a half years?

May the Flying Spaghetti Monster forgive me, because I'm very much hoping that HE doesn't make it much longer.

[Motown Bombers]

 

[RatkoVarda]

members of the White House Faith Outreach team had a public prayer session today, when some members began speaking in tongues.

It's a cult.

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[gehringer_2]

3 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

Glad to know that the crack NYT journalists can restate the obvious in 12pt TimesRoman.

[gehringer_2]

3 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

shadowbox warfare.

[Motown Bombers]

8 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

Glad to know that the crack NYT journalists can restate the obvious in 12pt TimesRoman.

It's what they wanted. They didn't want to have to print out a story about how competent old man Biden resolved conflict in the Middle East.

[gehringer_2]

21 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

It's what they wanted. They didn't want to have to print out a story about how competent old man Biden resolved conflict in the Middle East.

It's old news but I still despair over the state of the NYT. There is enough content in all the other areas that I still feel I get my money's worth (of course I have a discounted subscription!) but geez, I try not to even look at any of the political coverage anymore excepting Ezra Klein, and his stuff is usually broader than just partisan politics. Just a wasteland of nonsense.

[guy incognito]

Cool, another kick in the nuts.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/scotus-allows-trump-resume-3rd-205100498.html
 

[guy incognito]

2 hours ago, RatkoVarda said:

members of the White House Faith Outreach team had a public prayer session today, when some members began speaking in tongues.

It's a cult.

I had the misfortune of being peripherally involved with a group of Pentecostals in the ‘90s. Superficially friendly but bat****-crazy folks with terrible theology and worse politics, and absolutely a specific Type. I’m not a bit surprised to see them caught up in MAGA.

(Assuming we’re talking about true believers here and not pure knavish operators and grifters, of course. MAGA houses plenty of both.)

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[RatkoVarda]

44 minutes ago, guy incognito said:

Cool, another kick in the nuts.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/scotus-allows-trump-resume-3rd-205100498.html
 

absolutely repulsive. 

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[Tigermojo]

Maybe Trump will cease to fire his mouth off.

[Motown Bombers]

Israel has done a number on Iran’s government operations. The ayatollah is sealed in a bunker somewhere. Certain officials in Iran may not even know about the ceasefire. 

[gehringer_2]

1 minute ago, Motown Bombers said:

Israel has done a number on Iran’s government operations. The ayatollah is sealed in a bunker somewhere. Certain officials in Iran may not even know about the ceasefire. 

So years ago when we in the West were just beginning to be jolted by the Islamist fundamentalist movement, Bernard Lewis was one of the leading Middle East scholars and he wrote a few books about it. One of his themes was that when a culture that was once ascendant sort of falls from grace and success, the religious in that society will argue that it was because of loss of piety in the society. So for Islam the final fall of the long decaying Ottoman empire at the end of WWI is what set things off, that led by the 70's and 80's to all kinds of crazies both on the Sunni and Shia sides trying to build pious Islamic fundamentalist states (or non-states) in the hope that Allah's resulting favor would allow them to bring back the Caliphate and vault them into a reprise of the cultural supremacy they had in the 12th century. One can only hope that the serial failures of Al Qaida, Isis, Hamas, Hezbollah, and the 'under performance' of the IROI will finally disabuse the Islamic world of the idea that the turbaned heads  are going to bring them power and glory if they'd only grow their beards and suppress their women.

Now if can break the same paradigm we are getting from the religious right in the US, we might also get somewhere ourselves.

[GalagaGuy]

Of course Iran is going to agree to a ceasefire.  Now they can sweep up the dust and get back to working on their nuclear weapons as soon as the trucks with the enriched uranium return it to the Fordo site.