Hikuro-93

At this point, with all the crazy unreal stuff happening - tinfoil hat on - I’m not even 100% sure his previous assassination attempt was not staged. The more I think about it, the way the shooter managed to get past security and actually fire shots, how the shooter was being framed as a mad leftist (except not really, it seems), and how Trump already had so many pieces in place before election (Project 2025)…

Sure, I was convinced that the near-missed shot to the ear was impossible to fake - what would be the chances? But how about shooting in the general direction of Trump, faking a shot, while a micro-explosive device from the dark spy budgets gets placed on his ear? Tech is always evolving, so I wouldn’t be too surprised if such a device existed. A ripped ear in exchange for being a quasi-martyr and getting lots of support as “God’s chosen survivor” - not a bad tradeoff. Way too many coincidences along the way, to the point it becomes a pattern. Almost befitting a man who lost once and would go to any lenght to make sure he’d not lose ever again.

Anyways, even if somehow something as crazy as this could even happen - and it being found out - what would be the chances of him actually facing consequences for it? That said, I share your hope anyway.

Not only that - and the fact that it’s not a free gift at all, since it’ll absolutely come with strings attached and it’ll cost millions upon millions of taxpayer money to retrofit Trump’s personal Airforce 1 - but Trump also stated:

We give free things out. We’ll take one, too

No, Donnie. Not “we”. Other administrations, and indirectly taxpayers give “free” things out, and not even then, because even foreign aid is a form of securing power and influence abroad - an investment, to speak in your corporate terms. You do not give anything for free, being the so-called “transactional President” you are so proud to be - there’s only grift, free lux planes, free weekly golf trips to Trump courses and tax cuts for your class when you’re the one in the Oval Office. Like you love to claim that “We aid Ukraine”, when the previous administration was the only one to actually help, while as soon as you took office you started undermining and weakening Ukraine’s position in the war.

You mean “The US gives out while I cut all forms of aid and reinforce corruption, but I get to benefit from it more than anyone else.” FTFY. Imagine Obama or Biden, who certainly did not grift even nearly at your level, and at least did their jobs even if imperfectly, going “We give things out, so we’ll get some as well”, as they accepted millions-worthy gifts for their personal use during and after their terms.

Not american, btw, but I know the way I wrote might lead some to that conclusion. Not my intent to lead anyone to wrong assumptions.

Hum… Yeah… That’d be me. The creature of the night. Not rave n’ disco night… More like, night night. Even during the day.

Ha ha, yes, such a joker that JD. Totally not a cowardly sleazebeg acting as a “good person” and testing the waters on controversial stuff like a certain orange president likes to do… He’s learning well.

I really hope this is the World Cup with the least international attendance in recent memory (should really be 0, but that’s sadly too unrealistic) . Don’t spend your money in the US, if FIFA wants your fan money they should relocate the world cup to somewhere without threats.

You could elect a cabinet composed exclusively of orange cats united by a single and solitary shared braincell, and they wouldn’t be as idiotic.

They’d be idiotic, for sure. They’d be entertaining as well. But at least they wouldn’t be malignantly idiotic.

Still not a complete shut down on him, since he’s gonna serve in another position. But better than nothing.

More interestingly, many said Waltz (who created the first signal group) would be the one to get the axe first, and not Hegseth (the one actually leaking classified data, twice) - not because he fumbled, but because he publicly admitted it, he admitted he made a mistake.

Curious to see what happens next, but so far the prophecy holds true enough.

I think he means “tired of the pushback and profit loss from actively bribing the system into becoming the shadow POTUS running the world behind the scenes”.

How else could he attempt to advance to Mars Colonization, his lifelong dream as someone with a God-Iron-Man-Savior complex, during his lifetime?

He knows with the current progress rate he could help pave the way to Mars for humanity, but not live the dream himself, or take full credit for that achievement. And we know just how “selfless” he is.

Decades from now students will learn about this whole period in schools - and they’ll call the teachers liars and say there’s a shadow government altering history.

Because no one will believe we had this level of stupidity and idiocracy. You literally can’t make this shit up if you tried your best.

He’s really going around bragging “Heh hurr durr, check out these plans I have access to because I’m the mf’ing top dog, I’m so good, let those doubters calling me a drunk eat a fat one.” Repeatedly. Micro pp energy all the way.

Even if that’s real, which doesn’t look like it, what’s keeping them from forcing Mr. Garcia onto a chair, hold him down, while they tattoo it?

This administration and their dictator allies have shown to have no constraints, no guardrails, time and time again. Consistently. You can always blindly trust them to bs and lie their way through anything.

You gonna tell me people who tried to stage Mr. Garcia sipping some Margaritas by a hotel pool wouldn’t stoop so low as to place fake tattoos on him? Yeah, that’s the thing with dishonesty - even if you tell the truth once it’s still gonna be called into question. The boy who cried wolf, and all that.

When Mr. Garcia gets back to the US take his family and put them in safety in another country - Canada, Europe, so long as they’re far from El Salvador or Trump. Political asylum anywhere safe, since he can be considered now a person of interest to those wanting to upkeep democracy, and a danger to those undermining it.

I’m sure there’s plenty of people sympathetic to this cause and wanting Mr. Garcia to be able to freely speak without fear about what he’s endured.

As soon as he’s back in the US he’ll have a big red bullseye on his back, guaranteed.

Inb4 Trump claims American Indians are just Indians from India who tried to fool true 'muricans.

I really have this naive dream that when this all is over and they have to face consequences justice opens an exception of irony for the lot of them and gives them the medicine they so defended - no due process, straight to foreign gulag. Then photo op in front of their cell.

I don’t expect it to happen in the slightest. But god, would I accept it so well. These people need to be made an example of, otherwise there’ll always be a whole army of them lined up for the next attempt.

Heard of the whistleblower related to DOGE who claims the tech group hired by Musk had already tried to breach government for years or so?

And how with each DOGE visit to a given department it always followed tactics of distraction and getting stored data, then suddenly leaving?

And how there’s suddenly many breach attempts by suspicious hackers linked to Russia right after DOGE visits?

Or how the biggest culprit of government bloating by hecking far, the Department of Defense, same department who has failed several audits, was never a target of DOGE?

Hm… Not suspicious at all. Sadly I can’t recall the source, but I think it was on YouTube.

What @[email protected] said, pretty much.

European too here, though with a special interest in all of this since I’m one of the closest europeans to the US, living right in the middle of the Atlantic. 🙂

Make no mistake. Last time Trump got legitimately “thrown out of his palace” he called upon an army of insurrectionists to storm the capitol.

Now he’s back in there, surrounded by yes-men, and his insurrectionist army is pardoned and with boosted confidence that they can spread chaos without consequences. And by being POTUS many of his armed forces supporters have the “following orders” and “his elected authority” excuse to side with him against the remaining government branches and the people - even if their oath is to the constitution.

Whatever enforcement entity SCOTUS can get to impose actual consequences to this administration’s wrongdoing on April 23rd, if it comes to it, Trump won’t take it lying down. That’s a guarantee with these savages.

Yup. Peaceful protests only work when the tyrant actually cares about the opinion of the protesters and may want to go out with even a shred of dignity.

That doesn’t work for self-absorbed scum who believes they’re above everyone else and thinks they can win by bulldozing the opposition - appealing to the good will of a sociopath won’t save you, because there’s none there.

He’s calling the people’s bluff, and he damn well knows the people don’t want to get their hands dirty.

All the defense of school shootings for what? For a second amendment that isn’t even used in the only situation in history where it would be justified? All talk, no action. And Trump is exploiting it big time.

If there was an honest to God legal way they’d already have figured it out along with everything else in Project 2025, long before coming into office.

They’re trying to find out a better loophole than the last one, which blew up in their face. And trying to find ways to remove the people in the way of said loopholes.

I mean… Regardless of them being biased or not, or how good a President they were during their terms, didn’t every single one of them warn the people this was to be expected when you put a clown on the White House? That it’d turn into a circus?

Even Kamala warned about it, and I don’t even like her and don’t see her as POTUS material. But even if she didn’t do much as a leader, even if her term was mostly unremarkable, it still wouldn’t be as implosive as Trump 2.0.

Words, at the end of the day, are just words. They’re pretty worthless if there’s no action behind them. And Trump calls that bluff daily. He fully knows people will complain and badmouth him, but won’t go further than that. If you wanna call the bluffer’s bluff, act, don’t just threaten. And even if the worst the people can do to him is remove him from office (aka, no lenghty prison time, or remove all his assets and his friend’s, or worse) then he’s already won and paved the way for the next one in line to try his shot.

And to be clear - I did not vote for this. Like, at all, because I’m not even american. And yet billions of people are still being affected by this debacle of misplaced trust by our collective predecessors.

As far as a spec of dust such as myself can do, I won’t contribute to this dependency ever.