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Trump's Second Term

I hate to repeat myself but anybody who thinks this will end peacefully is living in fantasy land. The politicla violence is only just beginning.
And before long a lot of people on the left are going to be recnsidering their oppostion to gun ownership.
 
dudalb said:
I hate to repeat myself but anybody who thinks this will end peacefully is living in fantasy land. The politicla violence is only just beginning.
And before long a lot of people on the left are going to be recnsidering their oppostion to gun ownership.
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Again the question. Your prophesized civil war begins. 2A loving democrats have taken their personal guns and are blocking out Trump loyalists.
The newly purged and MAGAfied army then calls in an artillery strike on the neighbourhood.
How does owning a gun help?
 
Hot on the heels of YouTube settling a law suit with Trump for $23m or so, Google has caved in.

While you can google “does Biden have dementia” and you get an AI Overview. When you put in “does Trump have dementia” you get no such overview (in Australia for certain and it looks from reports I’ve read, many other countries).

What really needs to happen is for rich and powerful companies stand up to the Bully in Chief. Instead we get cowardice from timid sycophants. Disgusting.
 
lionking said:
Hot on the heels of YouTube settling a law suit with Trump for $23m or so, Google has caved in.

While you can google “does Biden have dementia” and you get an AI Overview. When you put in “does Trump have dementia” you get no such overview (in Australia for certain and it looks from reports I’ve read, many other countries).

What really needs to happen is for rich and powerful companies stand up to the Bully in Chief. Instead we get cowardice from timid sycophants. Disgusting.
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Yes, and You Tube is a subsidiary of Google, so they have paid him twice. Essentially all these businesses are utterly supine and easy to extort. Sadly, many other countries are too. This is partly because Trump has no interest in cultivating good relations with businesses or other countries. He wants what is good for him and his bank account now, and screw everyone else. He behaves like he's Yeltsin or Mugabe, literally amassing gold all around him, and on full display for the world to see.
 
dudalb said:
I hate to repeat myself but anybody who thinks this will end peacefully is living in fantasy land. The politicla violence is only just beginning.
And before long a lot of people on the left are going to be recnsidering their oppostion to gun ownership.
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I don't think anyone at all thinks this will end well.
 
According to MSNBC:

The simple reason Americans have the right to call their president a ‘fascist’

You have the right to call President Donald Trump a fascist. It doesn’t matter if it’s literally true, even though there’s plenty of evidence to suggest that it is. Trump’s own former White House chief of staff, retired Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly, said shortly before the 2024 election, “He certainly falls into the general definition of fascist, for sure.” It’s an opinion and a political label that, even used pejoratively, is still protected speech under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
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But Vice President JD Vance — who reportedly in 2016 fretted about Trump’s potential to become “America’s Hitler” and before the 2024 election unabashedly spread racist lies about Haitian immigrants — has been on a tear since the assassination of MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk, openly calling for cancellations in the form of firing people for speaking negatively of the late rhetorical pugilist’s legacy. Vance exhorted Democrats, “If you want to stop political violence, stop telling your supporters that everybody who disagrees with you is a Nazi.”
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Kirk, who often spoke about how deeply influenced he was by the late right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh (who for decades referred to feminists as “feminazis”), was no shrinking violet when it came to labeling his own political opponents. For example, in 2021 Kirk posted to the site then known as Twitter, “Joe Biden is the fascist dictator the left tried desperately to make you think Donald Trump was,” and during a 2023 podcast episode he said Biden was a “corrupt tyrant who should honestly be put in prison and/or given the death penalty for his crimes against America.”
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(SNIP)

(I also posted this in the CK thread)
 
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Lukraak_Sisser said:
Again the question. Your prophesized civil war begins. 2A loving democrats have taken their personal guns and are blocking out Trump loyalists.
The newly purged and MAGAfied army then calls in an artillery strike on the neighbourhood.
How does owning a gun help?
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You are right, just sit down peacefully, offer no resistance to them and go quietly to the gallows.
 
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angrysoba said:
Yes, and You Tube is a subsidiary of Google, so they have paid him twice. Essentially all these businesses are utterly supine and easy to extort. Sadly, many other countries are too. This is partly because Trump has no interest in cultivating good relations with businesses or other countries. He wants what is good for him and his bank account now, and screw everyone else. He behaves like he's Yeltsin or Mugabe, literally amassing gold all around him, and on full display for the world to see.
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Well, Google, like all capitalist success stories, want to be part of the future oligarchy. There is no such thing as a benign mega corporation.
 
On the suitability of overweight soldiers

Major General Sir George Frederick Wootten

Veteran of two world wars.
Gallipoli and the Western Front in the 1st war.

North Africa, Tobruk, New Guinea and Borneo in the 2nd.

Wootten commanded the 9th Australian Division, notably leading them in successful campaigns in New Guinea, including the capture of Lae, Finschhafen, and Sattelberg.
His leadership earned him the Commander of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order with Bar.
General MacArthur described him as "the best soldier in the Australian Army".

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He didn't want a shutdown but...

Trump: "There could be firings, and that's their fault, and there could also be other things. We could cut projects that they wanted, favorite projects, and they'd be permanently cut. So you could say, a lot of people are saying I wanted this. And I didn't want it. But a lot of people are saying it because I'm allowed to cut things that should have never been approved in the first place and I will probably do that."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1973554806456197148
 
Andy_Ross said:
So basically.

She made me hit her. I might have to hit her again if I don't get what I want.
I can do worse things to her and I probably will.
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Yep. Looks that way.

I didn't want to hit her but I do, by coincidence, have this prepared list of ways to hurt her and cause her all kinds of permanent harm, which I will now carry out because I can, and her giving me the opportunity is basically the same thing as forcing me to do it.
 
angrysoba said:
I don't think anyone at all thinks this will end well.
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Oh you have a few people here who still fantasize about some peaceful non violent overthrow of the curennt adminsitration. Just not going to happen.
It is a cold civil war, and might well turn hot, and it won't be anything like that stupid movie they made a couple of years ago.
 
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