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#15501 QuickTidal

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Posted Yesterday, 01:09 PM

In today's edition of "If Obama or Joe Biden did this the MAGA and R's would be melting the fuck down on the news for weeks".....Trump has bulldozed part of the East wing of the White House for his stupid fucking ballroom...I can't even....every single day this man does something that if the democrats did it, you would NEVER hear the end of the screeching. EVERY. GODDAMNED. DAY.

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#15502 Azath Vitr (D'ivers

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Posted Yesterday, 02:56 PM

QuickTidal, on 21 October 2025 - 01:09 PM, said:

In loosely related news... for anyone who might have missed this:

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No one can imagine a Democratic president suggesting he can s--- on Americans with impunity. That would be a weekslong scandal. Yet reporters tend to shrug when Trump does it, because they accept as true the argument that Republicans are the only legitimate Americans.

[...] It's outrageous for the congressional Republicans to defend the video or pretend they don't know Donald Trump posted it. It's outrageous, moreover, for the press corps to bend over backwards to avoid describing in plain English what everyone can see for themselves.

I mean, "brown liquid"! Jesus God, c'mon.

Trump's nose has been bloodied — and now he's furious - Alternet.org

Hey wait a second... are you sure he's not a Canadian agent? Destroying the White House... seems pretty Canadian.

But seriously---yes, and it's not just the Republicans, it's also much (most?) of the mainstream media.

OTOH there has been a little bit of Republican pushback on the federal gun registry and some other things... enough Senate Republicans have said they're going to vote against Trump's special counsel nominee (after leaked group chats revealed him saying he has a "Nazi streak" and using racial slurs etc.) that he probably won't be confirmed. Four Republican senators even criticized Trump's punitive withholding of funds to blue stataes. Other Republicans are at least worried that Trump's blatant corruption and other Republican ethics scandals will make it very difficult for Republicans to wiin the midterms (without cheating). And Senator Chuck Grassley is insisting on funding the courts despite the government shutdown, probably in part because they've been one of the few checks on Trump's abuses of power (when he deigns to comply... because he doesn't want to seem like too much of a dictator too soon---he wants to slow-boil the frog in shit).

Pro-gun groups accuse AG Pam Bondi of doing what gun owners have long accused Democrats of wanting to do: create a registry of gun owners – AnneLandmanBlog

Republican senators indicate they won't confirm Trump special counsel pick after 'Nazi streak' comments – US politics live

GOP senators condemn Trump's 'punitive' targeting of blue states - Alternet.org

Republicans fear 'growing public backlash' to Trump's corruption will lead to midterm loss - Alternet.org

#15503 Werthead

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Posted Yesterday, 06:45 PM

The US military buildup in the Caribbean is starting to reach significant levels, with F-35Bs forward-deployed to Puerto Rico, and a Marine ready task force with over 4,000 troops apparently in a higher state of readiness. Three refuelling ships have entered the theatre to enable faster refuelling of US military vessels in the immediate area.

Apparently the Qatar-mediated negotiations have been shut down after Maduro refused to consider any scenario where he resigns before 2031, with the US delegates saying that Maduro is not a legitimate head of state.

There appears to be growing concern in multiple American and South American circles that the US position is that direct American military invention could be imminent, either a decapitation strike on Caracas to take down Maduro (these famously always work with a minimum of collateral damage, of course) or strikes on claimed drug processing facilities on Venezuelan soil which, even if they were not directed against the state, would still be hugely destabilising.

If you want to stop immigrants fleeing from Venezuela, I would submit bombing it back to the stone age might be counter-productive. Tipping Venezuela into the US sphere of influence would allow US forces to be stationed on the border with Colombia, where a lot of drug production takes place (of course). An increase in a US presence in the region would also put forces close to the Panama Canal, which Trump has taken an interest in (though not from a ground attack POV, due to the extreme hostility of terrain in the Darian Gap).

Whomever taught Trump to play Risk really needs to take his board away from him.

This post has been edited by Werthead: Yesterday, 06:48 PM

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