Trump's Second Term

[kookbreaker]

He wanted something like this.
We do Warfighting and parades.

I think he wanted more North Korea.

 

[bruto]

I can't think of the word "warfighter" without assuming that its utterer has his juvenile brain buried in some stupid computer game - maybe one of those that advertises on youtube, looking like a spinoff of 90's shareware. Commander Keen goes 3-D!

Step up to the console and blast those asteroids. There, up on the screen, "warfighter" is in the top ten scorers! Hot diggety dog! Today Paul's Pizza, tomorrow the world!

 

[Norman Alexander]

I can't think of the word "warfighter" without assuming that its utterer has his juvenile brain buried in some stupid computer game - maybe one of those that advertises on youtube, looking like a spinoff of 90's shareware. Commander Keen goes 3-D!

Step up to the console and blast those asteroids. There, up on the screen, "warfighter" is in the top ten scorers! Hot diggety dog! Today Paul's Pizza, tomorrow the world!

I would laugh if only that wasn't so close to the truth...

 

[dudalb]

It needs a sign on the side that says "It's supposed to sound like this!"

Yes, that is what a WW2 Sherman Tank sounds like.

I think it was that the tank went by with complete lack of any other sound. No crowd sounds. No cheers. No band. Just the sound of treads. It was obviously uninspired because it wasn't what the Army wanted for its own birthday in the first place. Hence why you had soldiers just walking by the President holding onto drones with their hands, etc.

Trump wanted a military parade like the dictators with ceremonial armies have and that just isn't what the US Army does.

I doube the Sherman Tank was owned by the US Army; probably one that was restored by a private collector.

 

[steenkh]

I thought it was "God is rewarding you by making you wealthy."

That was in the old days. In the ancient past, God thought it was more difficult to thread a needle with a rich guy than with a camel — which says something about omnipotence.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

I can't think of the word "warfighter" without assuming that its utterer has his juvenile brain buried in some stupid computer game - maybe one of those that advertises on youtube, looking like a spinoff of 90's shareware. Commander Keen goes 3-D!

Step up to the console and blast those asteroids. There, up on the screen, "warfighter" is in the top ten scorers! Hot diggety dog! Today Paul's Pizza, tomorrow the world!

He's seen "The Last Starfighter" fifty times and thinks it's a documentary.

 

[Andy_Ross]

I think he wanted more North Korea.

His guards of honour in the UK and France impressed him.

I'm surprised he hasn't resurrected the old designs for fancy uniforms at the White House.



Or even these.

 

[zooterkin]

Surprise. Company that knew what would happen declined to take the contract to 'fix' the reflecting pool

Company declined to work on Trump’s Reflecting Pool over ‘unfeasible’ plan: report

The July 4 deadline and the demand that the pool floor had to be blue reportedly rendered the job ‘unfeasible’

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Andy_Ross]

Biden: The reflecting pool reflects something even worse than the narcissism and incompetence at the core of this administration. It’s the corruption. The corruption. The brazen, blatant corruption. Corruption on a scale never seen before in American history in any administration.

Trump has made billions of dollars since returning to the White House. Simply stunning to me.

He has no shame. Frankly, it’s embarrassing for the country. Trump couldn’t care less.

Making money off the presidency is one of the reasons he wants to be president

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Biden: Putting his name on the Kennedy Center. Building an arch in his own honor. Even hiring his own pool guy to fix the reflecting pool.

Whoa. What a loser.

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Biden: Trump wants to give your money to the January 6 insurrectionists. My god. These people don't deserve to be compensated. They deserve to be put in jail for a long, long, long time.

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[Andy_Ross]

 

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[Norman Alexander]

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Bet they are also major poopy-heads too! Amirite, Stevie?!

 

[dann]

The National Science Foundation is making drastic cuts to basic research in favour of a program to turn discoveries into commercial products.
There's a problem here. Without basic research you really reduce your chances of making new discoveries.
NSF slashes research programs to support new tech initiative, insiders say [science.org]

The problem of eliminating expensive basic research is easy to overcome by accumulating anecdotes! It's much more persuasive!!! It's how supplements and alt. med. do it.

As we know as skeptics, an anecdote is just an anecdote, but think of the persuasive power of several anecdotes!
It's how you convince your potential customers that your product cures whatever you want it to appear to cure.
It's how Big Oil convinces its audience that people don't want wind and solar. They prefer good old fossil fuels.

And the people telling those anecdotes don't even have to be real. Made-up ones are just as good and much cheaper. Criticizing RFK Jr. like this is just ridiculous:

RFK Jr.'s podcast is an anecdote factory with no scientific relevance (DefendPublicHealth, June 23, 2026)
After listening to two episodes, it seems that this is no different, leaving the overarching impression that this podcast exhibits an overreliance on useless (!) anecdotes and is stricken with a severe science deficiency.

Don't knock anecdotes till you tried them! They are, in fact, not at all useless. On the contrary, they are very useful.

The second episode to which I listened, entitled, "The Science of Biohacking, Longevity, and Human Performance", repeated this pattern of giving anecdotal information equal weight to scientific data.

That is the reason why you need more than one anecdote to fight scientific data: Five anecdotes easily beat one study.

An anecdote carries the weight of a feather when it comes to scientific evidence.

But this is not about evidence. It's about persuasion! And three feathers easily outweigh one or two, and sometimes even more than three, studies! If you go on X, you'll soon notice that vaccine studies don't stand a chance against one or two or more 'My brother-in-law was fine until he got the vaccine and died.'

How to multiply the power of a single anecdote (SpeakingAboutPresenting.com)
by Olivia Mitchell
Anecdotes and examples engage people – but a discerning audience may object that they don’t prove anything. Combining the engagement of an anecdote with the credibility of numbers will multiply the effectiveness of both.

And if you don't have the time yourself, AI can do it for you.

 

[Norman Alexander]

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The whole country lost to Trump.

 

[Norman Alexander]

This spray of AI slop from the White House is for an audience of one. This tired rerun of years-old memes merely indicates they are now pandering to vengeful, decrepit, declining old fool with severe and rapidly advancing dementia. Who likely thinks Jerry Springer and WWE are still great TV.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

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Stephen Miller can never wear a turtle neck sweater because rabbis keep trying to cut it off.

 

[Planigale]

Biden: The reflecting pool reflects something even worse than the narcissism and incompetence at the core of this administration. It’s the corruption. The corruption. The brazen, blatant corruption. Corruption on a scale never seen before in American history in any administration.

Trump has made billions of dollars since returning to the White House. Simply stunning to me.

He has no shame. Frankly, it’s embarrassing for the country. Trump couldn’t care less.

Making money off the presidency is one of the reasons he wants to be president

video in link

Biden: Putting his name on the Kennedy Center. Building an arch in his own honor. Even hiring his own pool guy to fix the reflecting pool.

Whoa. What a loser.

video in link

Biden: Trump wants to give your money to the January 6 insurrectionists. My god. These people don't deserve to be compensated. They deserve to be put in jail for a long, long, long time.

video in link

It is good to hear someone coming out and saying these things clearly.

I do think other senior Democrats should do so (Yes, Barak, I am looking at you!).

 

[Andy_Ross]

Maggot Hagerman
Fake News
All 7 Swing States
Iran

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Based on a very quick and boring briefing concerning the Magot Hagerman book about me, it is mostly made up, Fake News, largely fiction, as have been most of the things she has written about me for so many years.
She is a third rate writer and intellect, who has made a first rate income because of your favorite President, ME.
She was wrong about me on the Elections, although she knew I was going to win, BIG! She was wrong about me on the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, and she was wrong about me on just about everything else. But she continues to spew out garbage, and people continue to buy it.
REMEMBER, I WON THE ELECTION, BIG - ALL SEVEN SWING STATES, THE POPULAR VOTE, 86% of the Counties...
And they don't have the audio tapes that they imply they have.
Just another Margot Con Job!
And Iran will never have a Nuclear Weapon!!!
President DONALD J. TRUMP

 

[Safe-Keeper]

@realDonaldTrump
Based on a very quick and boring briefing

Signed Drumpf (age 2).

 

[shemp]

Now the fake arch is becoming a metaphor.

Trump display at his State Fair already falling apart after three days: report

President Trump's carefully constructed vision for transforming the nation's capital is literally falling apart.

The Great American State Fair, meant to showcase his grandiose architectural ambitions, has spiraled into a three-day disaster of musical acts boycotting, equipment failures, tiny crowds and now a deteriorating replica arch buckling under less-than-ideal weather conditions.

According to New York Times reporting, the centerpiece of Trump's fair—a scaled-down version of his proposed 250-foot "Triumphal Arch"—is already showing signs of structural failure. The vinyl covering, stapled over a wood frame and emblazoned with "One Nation Under God," had begun "buckling" under the combined assault of high temperatures, humidity, and rain.

I'm sure he knows a guy who can fix it.