mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06There are children dying in hospitals because the power is out.
The fact that no one is screaming about this or demanding an end to this is why the collapse of the USA cannot happen fast enough.
Let Trump drive this beast into the ground. We no longer deserve to be a global power.
The US is not in decline because Trump rose to power.
Trump rose to power because the US is in decline.
Starting with Reagan and continuing with Clinton, we decided to sacrifice everything at the altar of making wealthy people wealthier. This is the inevitable result.
And please listen to Vlad when he warns that Trump is paving the way for a worse authoritarian regime to come later.
12⅓-minute video
https://youtu.be/f6fvHOOFYbw
1. Trump gets nervous about the Epstein files, so he deliberately creates a disaster.
2. The media talks about the new disaster. Trump feels better.
3. Trump takes too much heat from the new disaster, so he creates an even bigger disaster.
I hope everyone understands where this feedback loop ends.
Hint: Sun Tzu has a quote about evil men who will burn their own country to the ground just to rule over the ashes.
I am a US citizen. I am in my mid-fifties. I have lived among American Republicans my entire life, and I still have no fucking clue what the hell is wrong with them, or why any of them think behavior like this is reasonable.
What a bunch of entitled cunts.
I am a US citizen. I am in my mid-fifties. I have lived among American Republicans my entire life, and I still have no fucking clue what the hell is wrong with them, or why any of them think behavior like this is reasonable.
What a bunch of entitled cunts.
(Edit) This story is false. See response below. Sorry, guys.
Every Trump supporter is either a pedophile, or a defender of pedophiles. No exceptions.
#Trump
If you think it is only 3 fighter jets, you forgot that authoritarians lie constantly.
If you remember Gulf War II, you remember that the US military needed a whole year to move materiel and personnel around in preparation for invading Iraq.
You will notice that no such preparation happened prior to starting a war with Iran.
Trump literally thought he could attack a few locations, then Iran would beg for a ceasefire.
But Iran learned the hard way that if you negotiate a ceasefire with the US or Israel, those deals are not made in good faith.
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A corrupt judge wants to punish Afroman for winning by making him pay half the court costs.
Just in case you had any doubts about how corrupt the American injustice system is.
5⅓-minute video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRHpxlKfpkI
Yourselves. You can go fuck yourselves.
Anyway, the USA is in total collapse because we have reached critical stupidity. Too many of us have become too stupid to have a functioning nation.
“Trump Derangement Syndrome” is an admission of defeat.
It is a white flag of surrender.
If you hear this term, the person saying it is admitting that they cannot defend whatever Trump did currently under discussion, and they desperately want to change the subject.
They are identifying what they cannot defend.
So when you hear the above phrase, that should be your signal to less harder on that topic.
Always.
I'm making Japanese curry.
Following family tradition, I'm simmering it for hours. The curry bouillon will be added at the very end.
I added baby bok choy because we had some that needed to be used up.
Because of the baby bok choy, I cannot find that bay leaf I put in hours ago.
Whoops.
The US has abandoned 13 bases. Our troops are operating out of hotels. Iran is currently trying to figure out which ones.
Russia is openly helping Iran while the Trump administration continues to give Russia whatever they want.
Because of his narcissism, Trump will not be able to cut his losses and back down. He's just going to keep making everything worse.
21-minute video
https://youtu.be/bN8Td4glTfI
Reminder: Do not join the US military unless you are an evangelical or want to convert to an evangelical denomination.
The military has been like this for a long time.
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https://youtu.be/6pY9C0Ta_jc
Maybe Versus Definitely
I do not trust Graham Platner.
There are a variety of political YouTube personalities that I generally like who are singing his praises, but I do not trust Graham Platner.
I do not believe that anyone accidentally gets a white supremacist tattoo, and when he talks about that period of his life, he comes across as too glib and not penitent enough.
No matter where his political career goes from here, I do not trust him.
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Trump's approval among the MAGA crowd is at 100%.
Just in case you were thinking MAGA would leave him.
By the way, approval for the war in Iran has shot up to over 90%.
EDIT
Reminder: Dems will try harder to win votes from these people than from their own voters.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpvjP-_5Mxs
Amazon mandates AI use so that they could fire a bunch of programmers.
The AI keeps trying to destroy Amazon as a business.
Maybe AI really is smarter than human programmers.
8-minute video
https://youtu.be/0vvVo0Um1HY
Dear migrant workers,
Do not come to the USA. Do not come here for any reason under any circumstances. Our country WILL separate your family, put you in a concentration camp, and ultimately kill you.
Nothing is worth your life, and especially not worth the lives of any of your family.
The USA has made it abundantly clear that we never want foreigners to come to this country ever again.
So don't.
Do not come here.
Let us live with the consequences of our decisions.
Reminder: the USA is using munitions that cost millions each.
Iran is using munitions that cost tens of thousands.
Iran can afford to wait.
The economic consequences get worse for America the longer this goes on.
And Donald Trump is a narcissist. He will not be able to admit defeat, so this war is going to go on for a long time to feed his ego.
Pentagon generals warned Trump exactly how a was with Iran would turn out.
Trump decided that the generals were wrong and that Iran would quickly surrender.
Everything about this war is insane. Is this what various Democrats and Republicans have been pushing for decades? Is this what the oligarchs want? Because I don't see the oligarchs trying to remove Trump from power, and they could if they wanted.
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https://youtu.be/eqKALoG6uXY
Secretary Puppy Killer was being grilled in the Senate.
She was asked if she was having an affair with Bongino.
She gave a long winded answer, talking over others, but did not answer the question.
By not answering the question, she answered the question.
She, who is from the party that grilled president Clinton under oath about a dress stain, implied that it was inappropriate for the Senate to ask her about an affair.
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noun.
1. A pedophile-cannibal.
2. A threat to humans (they do not count).
3. A threat to human civilization.
Hey, Trump?
Have you considered begging China for help again? That will definitely make you look like less of a loser. Honest.
9-minute video
https://youtu.be/I5oDRwcI0RU
Most Americans have no idea how bad things are going to get economically and otherwise.
Trump even less so. I doubt he has a single coherent thought in his head.
5-minute video
https://youtu.be/bQrV4Ke_yHc
Donald Trump is making America weak again.
Now he is begging China for help, and the world is making fun of America over this.
He is making America look weak by begging or primary adversary for help doing something his own experts no doubt told him was a bad idea.
Trump thinks the war with Iran is going really well, so he wants to start another war with Cuba.
This is not going to stop until Trump is impeached. Every single person in the legislature understands this. That is why none of them are acting to stop him.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHKM9ock5TY
1. Changing an adult diaper by yourself when you're feeling nauseous is not fun.
2. Military officers—even retired ones—are like cats in that they find the most inconvenient place to stand when someone is busy.
Hasan is right.
If Democrats don't put up strongly anti-genocide candidates, some open fascist like Carlson is going to win.
9-minute video
https://youtu.be/2JEIbYHoJXc
Dear anti-science primitive,
Do you think masks were a bad idea?
Do you think “the jab” is dangerous and/or ineffective?
You think the vast majority of scientific experts got those things wrong, and that you have it right.
I have great news for you!
Science provides a mechanism by which you can prove that you know better than the experts. It is called the “scientific method” and is the entire point of science. If you are confused about any of this, ask a fifth grade child…
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This is so funny on so many levels. I don't even know where to start.
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https://youtu.be/o6K1iKcJFLs
Note: Friendly Atheist (Hemant Mehta) is generally very meticulous about checking sources. He was the one who broke the problem with the sourcing on those news stories about apocalyptic generals in the US military (re: Iran).
Anyway, yet another Duggar has turned out to be a pedophile.
I am starting to think it would be more efficient to list conservative Christians who AREN'T pedophiles.
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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/b8oIHRn824o
No idea how good or bad this source is, but apparently, there was a hack of a major medical company, and the attack was not very sophisticated.
11¾-minute video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHwILMPyq60
The Epstein War is rapidly spiraling out of control.
Notice how many Democrats are complaining about HOW Trump started this war and not the fact that he started this war.
The USA's status as a superpower may end up in the rubble created by this war.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQwowRAfC70
What a perfect metaphor for all the yelling about ex-MAGA complaining that people aren't being nicer to them.
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https://youtu.be/VhFPQRqjsoI
Friendly Atheist says not to trust the single source of that article about the US military making Armageddon claims. Hemant is pretty familiar with the source.
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https://youtube.com/shorts/3WHadZYHGk0
Trump insider claims that Israel is getting hammered and might use nukes (clip in video).
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tam4c-BOYE
Sorry to sound like a broken record, but this needs to be said frequently.
More white Americans need to read books about the history of racism in the USA.
Stamped From the Beginning is good, but almost any book on this topic will do. Kendi leads an academic group that studies racism, so when you read his books, you are getting a distillation of the work of multiple academics.
Trump is giving a master class on how racism works in the USA.
https://www.ibramxkendi.com/stamped
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