| second: The US is going to have to have a reckoning for its open embrace of war crimes. Trump boasted to Fox News, “We could take out every one of their bridges in one hour. We could take out every one of their power plants in one hour,” if he wanted. Destroying all power plants would cause massive civilian casualties of the kind Putin can only dream about. [go to link] |
| second: When the US and Israel are killing Iranian civilians at a higher rate that Vladimir Putin was killing Ukrainian civilians in 2025, that requires some serious acknowledgement and reflection. This casualty toll has hurt the one actual thing that might have made the campaign worthwhile—regime change. It must be hard for the Iranians to believe that the US actually wants to help them free themselves when civilians are being killed like this. [go to link] |
| second: At a minimum the US and Israel in six weeks have killed almost three times as many Iranian civilians in their long-range strike campaign as Russia has killed Ukrainian civilians in their long-range strike campaign in all of 2025. [go to link] |
| second: 6ixStringJack wrote: "Speaking of political theater, look at how Second is pretending that he's all religious." The Pope knows how a person's life is weighed. Pope Leo XIV said that Trump is unchristian. Standing on the official scales, Trump is obese and evil while JD Vance is both a lightweight and a fool to be claiming he is more Catholic than the Pope. |
| second: Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted.… The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
—Frederick Douglass, 1857 |
| second: The self-dealing during Trump I was, in fact, unprecedented in American history. Recall how lobbyists and foreign potentates booked pricey rooms in Trump’s Washington hotel? But under Trump II blatant corruption has run wild at the highest levels of government, on a scale like nobody has ever seen before. Trump and his family have used his office to extract billions in de facto graft, through crypto deals with petro-state autocrats, investments in prediction markets and defense contractors, making sweetheart foreign real estate deals that line up with favorable tariff treatment, soliciting hundreds of millions for Trump vanity projects. [go to link] |
| second: Want to shift America towards safe, clean renewable energy? Think again, because petrostate oligarchs have poured $500 million into Trump’s World Liberty coin. [go to link] |
| second: Want to rein in the pernicious effects of prediction markets. I don’t think so, because the Trump family invests in Polymarket. [go to link] |
| second: Want to regulate crypto and stop its use as a vehicle for crime? Well, um, no, because the Trump family has amassed billions from their crypto holdings. [go to link] |
| second: Want to stop a data center in your community and impose common-sense controls on AI? Well, that’s a non-starter because the Trump family has invested in data centers and in AI firms. [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: Just another thing for lemmings to post TDS rage-bait in lieu of actually doing anything to make the country or even their own lives better. |
| 6ixStringJack: Nothing but a bunch of disingenuousity by all parties concerned and nobody with a 3 digit IQ is taking any of it seriously. |
6ixStringJack: Yeah... Trump was sarcastically saying "Praise be Allah!" in several of his Truth Social posts and may have even said it IRL too (I don't know because I don't listen to clips of him talking everyday like those two do). The leader of Iran would sooner see all Christians dead than befriend the Pope. But our media is running defense for Iranian leaders and the Pope came out and did the same, so the Iranian leaders knew it would be good business for them to say something in support of the Pope that they'd love to see dead, knowing that our media would print it and then Ted and Second would go around posting it everywhere.  |
| Brenda: Even an innocent question can be twisted. Answer what someone said about your question with facts and they ignore what you said. |
| Brenda: Ah, yes. Political theater. That I can ignore because there is too much of it around and the nastiness that comes with it. |
| Brenda: Oh, okay. I don't remember when the smart phones came out. I've said for the last few years I hate cell phones. I've had people trying to get me to get one but I won't. I think they are stupid. Humans have done quite well for thousands of years without being contact 24/7. Though I am sure that people thought that originally about the telephone. But then they didn't have screens and could connect you with everything. Cells are useful for the blind and for the deaf. But other than that no. |
| 6ixStringJack: Speaking of political theater, look at how Second is pretending that he's all religious. It appears that religion is the basis of every post he makes right now. He doesn't mean any of that either since he's a godless monster. He just loves anything that gives him another excuse to lay judgement on everybody else but himself. |
| 6ixStringJack: The proliferation of the "Smart" phone happened in 2012, Brenda. Some say that the world didn't end in 2012, but we changed timelines instead. That's what all the Mandella Effect crazies say, anyway. I don't believe them about that, but I think the world started to go to shit right around that time. |
| 6ixStringJack: Neither of them meant it, Brenda. Trump wasn't praising Allah. The leader of Iran wasn't defending the pope. It's all just political theater, because in the 2020's that is all anything is anymore. Eventually everyone will tune out and we'll go back to how things were in the 90's. |
| Brenda: Something THG posted about the Iranian president defending the pope. That just hit me as weird. What happened in 2012? |