Oh, for sure, that’s definitely what Trump wants and tearing down that symbol of depravity will be a massive healing moment for the country
But Trump’s mind is soup. He’s not controlling anything, someone keeps talking to him about the ballroom so he’ll repeat it for the cameras
His brain is soup. He’s out there talking about warning Hegseth about Bin Laden last year, he said 300 million Americans die every year to fentanyl, it can only good… He’s not running the show
I’m sure that he also wouldn’t want to admit he needs permission, but his mind is not functioning at a level where he can grasp details like that
And he keeps talking about the ballroom. Trump only remembers the last conversation he had, so someone is pointing him at the ballroom for some reason. We saw it when Kirk was shot… When asked for comment he said it was terrible and then launched into another speech about the ballroom
And whoever is pushing this has to know the plans aren’t even close to ready. So they must have another goal
I can’t find the original posts… Search engines are unusable these days
But the one that stood out to me was when he was saying his preferred wars to fight in would be ones like the Philippines or Afghanistan, so that he could get the rush of combat without the danger of actual opposition
Most of the posts people are freaking out about are ignorant shit I have no problem looking past… Casual bigotry is something you can grow out of easily with experience
But the dude has a thing with violence and war I find more concerning… But he does seem like a principled progressive, so I think it’s worth giving him a shot
I just don’t think this angle works. It relies on the listener correctly reasoning out how society works
“Raising the minimum wage would cause inflation”. Is this true? No, it’s been tested and studied. Most people believe this anyways
“Who’s going to pay for healthcare?” We pay for healthcare already! Single payer healthcare would save nearly everyone a lot of money… But we’re stuck at this hurdle. Even though we can pull billions out of midair for the military, and apparently fucking Argentina
There’s all these myths that sound reasonable on the surface and get repeated constantly, and you can’t reason people out of them. They can only do it themselves
I think when people start talking about their taxes going up for healthcare, we should shame them. We should treat them like they said we should kill poor people so we can slightly lower the cost of pet food
I think it was more of a crazy story tattoo than a Nazi tattoo to him
This guy was listing wars he’d like to fight in, because they were against civilians. This guy does not see the world in a normal way set all
But hey, his positions are on point. I’m not going out on a limb for him, but maybe chud-coded progressives are a viable strategy
Surely for $350 million you could design a ball cleaning system under the floor… Just capture them from one side, put them through a quick rinse and dry under UV, and then you can have a ball waterfall on the far side
They don’t even have coherent plans yet… There’s stairways leading nowhere and windows facing walls
The point was the demolition, I’m not sure why but someone has been talking to Trump non-stop about the ballroom to do it
Maybe it’s some weird sexist thing, maybe it’s just because they hate America… But the demolition was the point here, someone wanted to get rid of the east wing
Collateral murder. Not a massacre, not a genocide, just random death from afar
It won’t be a war. They’re baiting out a response and might respond to that with a decapitation strike… There’s no shot this turns into a war, it’s Venezuela
Realistically, they’re just creating instability with this while unleashing the CIA to do their things
Uh… Trump doesn’t really criticize China on that, he’s made it clear he understands/believes they’re just representing their interests
Trump has been pretty consistent in thinking countries should be able to do this sort of thing, at least before his brain totally melted
Well, that’s held up by Johnson refusing to do his job and swear someone in. It’s still coming, whether the government reopens or not - the shutdown would be a delay tactic on the FBI side
I remember living in France during a movie theatre shooting, and they were like “how do you live like that? It must be horrible”. It was also like 2k miles away from anywhere I’d ever been
Meanwhile, in the few months I was there someone decapitated a clerk in the nearest post office (just walked in during working hours) and my host found a human torso in the park like a mile away
They destroyed a national symbol for no reason, and now they’re going to build a gaudy barn on the ruins that will be bigger than the white house
Yes, snap matters more. A lot more. But it’s not as immediate or visceral
Systems stutter, then fail all we once. And there’s a lot of systems stuttering these days…
You’re not wrong, but there’s going to be a lot of specific moments too
Yep. The anticipation is killing me, I’d love to get to it already
Not necessarily… He might have voted elsewhere, they might have done handwriting analysis, they might have just asked him where he voted with no context, or they might have just assumed if it happened once it happened twice and charged her for it
But the headline reads as if he’s dead, although it is ambiguous
Probably because Trump warned Hegseth about that bin laden guy a year ago
No!!! Those are probably at way higher PSI than normal tires, you can do that wrong enough to die
Plus it probably wouldn’t work… An armored transport that can be stopped with a knife isn’t very armored
Lmao yes, project 2025 is like 90% AI. The tarrif numbers were AI. Hell, if you look at one of the first executive orders, the one that un-recognizes trans people, about 3 paragraphs in it begins to correctly identify the difference between sex and gender for like an entire page