Trump's Second Term

[Dave Rogers]

I hope you are joking about his bringing down gas to one dollar a gallon; that is not going to happen and I don't think he can impact gas prices much.

This is Trump, remember. He'll just tell everyone that gas is one dollar a gallon.

Dave

 

[Darat]

Trump is losing the people he claims to love, the poorly educated:

Focused on the wrong priorities? Now that's a strange one Trump's priorities haven't changed one iota.

 

[Mojo]

Seems more like it's little more than part of a hit job attempt on Fauci that also serves as an attempted defense for how utterly ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ corrupt, inept, and sociopathically murderous Trump and co's COVID response was as well as an attempt to keep control of what people are talking and thinking about - away from the wrecking balls that Republicans are attacking the US' stability and prosperity with.

If you saw passages like:

You wanted to be the sun god. You could sit for Instyle magazine, but you can't answer questions for the American people. You became a narcissist and a megalomaniac and a liar, and you've lied to the American people.

...or:

You lied to hundreds of millions of people…because you wanted to fuel your own ego and be the center of attention

...in isolation, who would immediately come to mind?

 

[jimbob]

If you saw passages like:
...or:
...in isolation, who would immediately come to mind?

Projection is also a helluva drug

 

[ponderingturtle]

He doesn't necessarily need the full support of the Army. Groups of a few officers and rogue units have pulled off successful coups.

And Hesgeth is purging the leadership so there is that as well.

 

[ponderingturtle]

South Africa has been very specifically targeted because of its racist 'anti-white' policies.

At least we are giving them asylum, because whites being ruled by blacks is a crime against humanity worse than genocide which we don't give asylum for.

 

[ponderingturtle]

I would like to beleive you but I have totally lost faith in the GOP to do the right thing.
On the other hand, I have seem some pure nonsense here, like Trump staging a Military coup. I don't think the Military would go along with him; it is not like he is really popular, and most of them take their oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constutuion very seriouly.
Having served in the US Army, I really dislike the whole "all soliderd are basically fascist" mentality a couple people here have.

They also take an oath to not commit war crimes but that doesn't mean anything when they get ordered to torture POWs. You have far too much faith in the military. Remember murdering 500 women and children is punishable by two days in prison.

 

[dudalb]

US vote counting fails on the "must be transparent and be seen to be valid" requirement.

You don't get such complaints in the UK, because the candidates or their representatives can watch the whole process except for the casting of the votes, which are done on paper with a pencil, and put in the ballot box by the voter. Voting machines are inherently less transparent in the vote counting.

This is Trump, remember. He'll just tell everyone that gas is one dollar a gallon.

Dave

But they will still pay four bucks at the pump.
Not going to work except for absolute MAGA faithful.
Unless you imply voters are idiots, in which case we need to get rid of democracy.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Tulsi Gabbard
@TulsiGabbard
Fauci’s 'performance' today made me sick. Smug arrogance. Zero remorse. Zero accountability. He refused to answer a single question.
Sharing this again as a reminder: He used your tax dollars to fund the coronavirus lab research in Wuhan—and worked with the IC to cover it up. We deserve the truth and accountability


Video in link

 

[Tero]

The Deep State department

 

[dudalb]

Alex Jones callng for the impeachment of Trump over Iran, saying Trump is planning on bringing back the draft to prepare for a massive invasion of Iran.
My ,how the worm has turned.
BTW I don't think bringing back the draft is feasible. almost nobody is for it. And it would be a total disaster for the GOP.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Bernie Moreno
@berniemoreno
This morning, I gave Anthony Fauci the chance to do something simple: turn around, look at everyone he hurt with his lockdowns, vax mandates, and mask mandates, and apologize.

He wouldn’t even look at them. What a disgrace, but Democrats still slavishly defend him. Pathetic.

link

 

[steenkh]

Unless you imply voters are idiots, in which case we need to get rid of democracy.

US voters are idiots. This has been proven by the last election in the US. But the alternative is to have a government that is not wanted by the majority of voters, and that is even worse, so there is no need to get rid of democracy.

ETA: But the case can be made that the US kind of democracy is not a proper democracy, and it certainly isn't the case that the majority of voters support the government.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

But they will still pay four bucks at the pump.
Not going to work except for absolute MAGA faithful.
Unless you imply voters are idiots, in which case we need to get rid of democracy.

Cancel democracy or work toward an educated populace and a free, non partisan press held to standards of objective truth.

 

[Tero]

Rand failed to prove conspiracy theory. Fauci had doubts! But now shuts up!

Expressed uncertainty about source of COVID
During the early months of the COVID-19 outbreak in China, Fauci was unsure about the origins of the virus. The two leading scientific theories are that the virus officially known as SARS-CoV-2 jumped from animals to humans at a wet market in Wuhan or it leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

“We know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier,” Fauci wrote on Jan. 26, 2020. “Having said that, somewhere the virus jumped from animals to humans.”

Fauci also noted that during a Feb. 1, 2020, call with U.S. and international health experts, officials were in disagreement about COVID’s origins.

He wrote that Ron Fouchier, the deputy head of the Department of Viroscience at Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands, said “he was sure this could occur naturally,” putting him in agreement with Christian Drosten, the director of human virology at the German Center for Infection Research at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

But Fauci wrote that the nine other officials on the call believed “deliberate insertion” was possible, indicating they leaned toward the lab leak theory. Those officials included Francis Collins, then the director of the National Institutes of Health.

Former FBI Director Christopher Wray said in 2023 the bureau “has for quite some time” assessed that COVID “most likely” originated from a lab incident in Wuhan. Last year, the CIA said in a “low confidence” assessment COVID most likely originated from a lab leak.

On May 15, 2020, Fauci wrote that Trump told him, “Tony, you are losing me trillions of f—ing dollars,” during an event to announce the Operation Warp Speed vaccine initiative. But later in their conversation, the president cleared the air.

“I know you better than you think and I respect you and like you,” Trump said, according to Fauci. “You need to do your thing and I need to do mine; as long as you understand tht I need to keep this country alive.”

But in August 2020, Fauci blasted Trump as an “idiot” for misrepresenting the number of Americans who had died from COVID.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5994836-fauci-diary-entries-covid

 

[jimbob]

US voters are idiots. This has been proven by the last election in the US. But the alternative is to have a government that is not wanted by the majority of voters, and that is even worse, so there is no need to get rid of democracy.

ETA: But the case can be made that the US kind of democracy is not a proper democracy, and it certainly isn't the case that the majority of voters support the government.

Cancel democracy or work toward an educated populace and a free, non partisan press held to standards of objective truth.

There's a lot to be said for the Australian approach to encouraging participation

 

[zooterkin]

Tulsi Gabbard
@TulsiGabbard
Fauci’s 'performance' today made me sick. Smug arrogance. Zero remorse. Zero accountability. He refused to answer a single question.
Sharing this again as a reminder: He used your tax dollars to fund the coronavirus lab research in Wuhan—and worked with the IC to cover it up. We deserve the truth and accountability


Video in link

Grounds for a libel suit, surely?

 

[Helen]

Tulsi Gabbard
@TulsiGabbard
Fauci’s 'performance' today made me sick. Smug arrogance. Zero remorse. Zero accountability. He refused to answer a single question.
Sharing this again as a reminder: He used your tax dollars to fund the coronavirus lab research in Wuhan—and worked with the IC to cover it up. We deserve the truth and accountability


Video in link

What they are putting Fauci through is making me sick.

 

[Pixel42]

A lifetime of public service, and instead of enjoying a well deserved retirement he's having to sit there whilst frothing crackpots who aren't worthy of tying his shoelaces insult and slander him. Absolutely disgusting.

 

[jimbob]

A lifetime of public service, and instead of enjoying a well deserved retirement he's having to sit there whilst frothing crackpots who aren't worthy of tying his shoelaces insult and slander him. Absolutely disgusting.

I went onto antivax social media for a different thread and had forgotten how much of a violent and Nazi cesspit it is