| second: 0. Calling Trump a tyrant is not a call to violence. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt charged, “Those who constantly falsely label and slander the president as a fascist, as a threat to democracy, and compare him to Hitler to score political points are fueling this kind of violence.” [go to link] |
| second: 1. This claim suffers three serious defects. First, it assumes that violence is the only logical response to an attempt to undermine democracy. In reality, Trump’s assault on democratic norms can be—and in fact, is being—successfully resisted through democratic means. In Hungary, Viktor Orbán had carried out a more advanced version of the same power-consolidation strategy that Trump is attempting now, and voters defeated him through peaceful organizing. [go to link] |
| second: 2. The second problem with a moratorium on calling your opponents authoritarian is that Trump himself routinely violates it. The president has spent a decade calling his rivals communists and traitors, among other hyperbolic insults. He has specifically claimed that Democrats rig elections as a matter of course. Taking violent steps to stop undemocratic political leaders follows much more closely from Trump’s rhetoric than from anything Democrats have said about him. [go to link]
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| second: 3. And third, the conservative principle would seem to rule out any criticism of authoritarian tendencies, however real they may be. If calling a politician an aspiring authoritarian is tantamount to inciting their murder, then doing so is irresponsible even if the charge is true. Republicans could nominate the reanimated corpse of Benito Mussolini for president, and Democrats couldn’t question his commitment to democracy without being accused of ginning up violence. [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: Grow up, faggot. |
| second: Day 63 of Middle East conflict — Trump considers it ‘treasonous’ to say US isn’t winning war. What other nonsense is Trump saying? War powers: Trump also called a law limiting the use of force without congressional authorization “totally unconstitutional”. That's because of a newly discovered overriding clause in the Constitution that reads: I am President and I can say and do whatever I want since you can't stop me. [go to link] |
| second: 6ixStringJoker wrote: "That's not a reply to me. Do not quote me if you have nothing to say in reply." 6ix and Trump don't understand how history works. I'll explain: History proves Trump is a lying sack of shit despite 6ix saying history is "so full of shit". Historically, Trump promised to lower the National Debt, but it gets higher and higher, faster and faster: [go to link] Why would the debt increase? Because Trump paid NO taxes on April 15th. This is known because Trump refuses to reveal his IRS form 1040, in contrast to every other President. |
| 6ixStringJack: That's not a reply to me. Do not quote me if you have nothing to say in reply. |
| second: Bob Gale, co-writer of Back to the Future Part II [1989], confirmed that the wealthy, alternate-timeline version of Biff Tannen was inspired by Donald Trump. In the film, Biff’s political sway leads to difficult times for the people, turning Hill Valley into a town filled with crime and corruption. [go to link] |
| second: 6ixStringJoker writes: "You and your revisionist history are so full of shit. Everybody hates you." Trump promised to lower the National Debt, but it gets higher and higher, faster and faster: [go to link] Trump's spending on War might be a reason for the National Debt increasing. But there are other reasons such as Trump NOT collecting taxes or tariffs. How much income tax did Trump pay on April 15th? Nothing, as far as we know, since Trump refuses to reveal his IRS form 1040, in contrast to every other President. |
| second: Trump asks, "We Won, But Why Hasn't Iran Surrendered?" Because Trump is not getting a surrender until the US Army invades and conquers, as it did in Afghanistan and Iraq. Iran knows how poorly those two invasions went for the US Presidents involved. An Iran invasion will go poorly for Trump. That is what the Iranian government believes to be true, at this moment. Maybe if Trump nukes Iran, that will change their beliefs. [go to link] |
| Brenda: Problems again. Problems again. Getting error page again. Been happening off and on. |
| Brenda: I watch a lot of Youtube SIX but I've never come across an ad for that. Lots of dumb ads. That is how vaping was or maybe I should say is marketed up here. A safe way to kick your nicotine habit but with the flavoured stuff it attracted the kids along with the "safer" aspect. |
6ixStringJack:  You and your revisionist history are so full of shit. Everybody hates you. |
| second: In his first term, Trump boasted that once his economic agenda was in place, “we’ll start paying off that debt like water.” But in office, deficits exploded as a direct result of his policies. By the end of his first term, Trump had added nearly $7.8 trillion to the national debt, and most of that total was racked up before the Covid crisis. In his second term, Trump felt comfortable pulling the same trick twice, telling voters, “We’re going to pay off … the $35 trillion in debt. We’re going to pay it off. We’re going to get it done fast, too.” But he added an additional $1.8 trillion to the debt during the first year of his second term. The U.S. national debt officially surpassed $39 trillion on March 17, 2026, only five months after the debt hit $38 trillion, and will reach $40 trillion before the fall elections in 2026. [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: Boy... Would I love to be a fly on the wall in your mother's basement and see all the terrible, terrible shit you do to yourself and your family when you think nobody is looking. |
| second: Brenda asked: "Are you a smoker Second?" No. My father and grandfather died from smoking. My other grandfather vanished - nobody knows to where, but he was also a smoker. I don't have to get the same lesson more than once to learn what to avoid, but that is not true for many people I am surrounded by in Texas who can't learn from other's misfortune. Funny how so many of them also voted for Trump three times. Could there be a connection? |
| 6ixStringJack: Here's a video about FUM and why nobody should buy it. [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: Yeah... and it's not just vaping either. I don't know how often you watch youtube, but have you seen any sponsorships for a product called "FUM"? It's an outrageously expensive piece of metal and wood (around $80 for the cheap one and well over $100 for the expensive one), and you sign up for a monthly subscription for "flavor packs". They market it as a "safe" alternative to smoking and vaping and a means to quit either one, but they have a super expensive monthly subscription for what is essentially flavored essential oils that you're inhaling along with that "flavor". It wouldn't surprise me if that ends up being even worse than vaping and it ends up destroying a lot of YouTube channels that were making money shilling it as a "healthy" product. |
| Brenda: Well, speaking as a none smoker. I've seen people die because they smoked. My dad for one. A brother of his had throat cancer. I have a friend who had open heart surgery and a stroke because of her smoking. I just hope that she has stopped but I'm not fool enough to think that she has. Her breathing is to short when she is walking...so. |