I hope you’re right. I fear you’re not.

I see, they “just happened to need some more” right after trump took office.

Well obviously the US was sending them before that or it wouldn’t be called a pause/hold.

The point is Biden put the hold on and trump resumed sending them, as opposed to the poster’s claim.

Getting into a daily stretching routine is also really good for keeping things from locking up on you as you age. Do some stretches before working out to prevent injuries and afterwards to prevent muscle soreness.

Ya know, even with all the apt comparisons to Hitler and Putin, one thing I didn’t have on my bingo card was him actually trying to expand US territory by invading and annexing other countries. I thought that was one big difference.

Everything else I could imagine is now in progress: Disregard/end of the Constitution and rule of law–check. Dismantling of democracy into an authoritarian dictatorship–check. Mass deportations and concentration camps–check. Full-on implementation of Project 2025–check. Blatant corruption, lawlessness and self-enrichment for trump family and oligarchs–check. Implementation of Christian Nationalist policies–check. Dismantling of federal agencies and beneficial aid programs–check (so far DOJ/FBI, USAID, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Dept of Education).

As yet unchecked, but only a matter of time (it’s only been 3 weeks!): dismantling of additional agencies and programs: SNAP, medicaid first, then social security, medicare, all the stuff they hate. Use of military against civilians, requirement to carry ID papers with proof of citizenship, sham elections, and more!

Unanticipated by me: Musk given free reign to dismantle whatever parts of the US government he feels like, and now invasion and annexation of other countries and territories!?! In the sights: Panama Canal zone, Greenland, Canada, and Gaza. Could this really happen?

You know when those 2,000 pound bombs get shipped to Israel they actually get dropped on people and kill them, right? … It was happening whether they voted for it or against it.

No it wasn’t. Biden had put a stop to sending those bombs to Israel (in May 2024), and trump immediately resumed sending them as soon as he took office.

https://www.ocregister.com/2025/01/25/trump-ends-bidens-hold-on-2000-pound-bombs-for-israel/

Trump Lifts Biden’s Ban on Weapon Shipment, Makes 2,000-Pound ‘Bunker Buster’ Bombs Available to Israel

https://generalstrikeus.com/

That looks like a lot more practical approach.

I also think DEI is awful: Don Jr, Eric, and Ivanka, yuck! The worst of his spawn.

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Nothing would stop someone who made it to the Superbowl to not play. Especially since many (most?) of them probably support him. I know the Chiefs kicker Butker does. They’re rich as hell you know.

Great now he’s going to ruin the Super Bowl too while he’s at it. He went to the World Series too. Sports are supposed to be an escape. Can’t he (and musk) leave anything alone?

The damaged vehicles often had stickers with the image of the Greens’ candidate for chancellor, as well as the slogan “Be greener!”. That’s why investigators initially assumed that climate activists or Greens supporters were behind the foam attacks.

I don’t get why they would assume the attackers were Greens supporters when it was cars with stickers supporting the Greens that were being damaged?

edit: Yes, the phrasing of the quote I included in this post did give me the idea that they were targeting cars that already had bumper stickers supporting the Green candidate.

That life is fair.

I’ve seen interviews with some of them who say they still support trump, that he’s just bluffing as a negotiating tactic. I don’t think it would really happen (who knows), but I do think he’s serious–he and Jared have been talking out loud for a long time about what a great area for real estate development it would be–that’s just how their oligarch minds work. But I guess once you buy into the magasphere, it’s very difficult to ever pull your head back out, no matter what he says or does.

Even giving them read-only access is blatantly criminal and a massive security risk, but anyone who believes they’re really restricting access even that much is a fool.

And this is why Democrats will keep losing.

Do people not understand yet that we have moved beyond that world now? No more Democrats vs. Republicans and any of that “how to win an election” stuff. It’s over.

Uh, bottom left guy: relax, those eggs aren’t even fertilized.

475 years sounds like a lot until you realize that’s in dog years.

No! Scrap it now!

One thing I feel sure of is that at some point Trump will order the military to fire on civilians. I thought it would take some time to build up to that point, but I hadn’t factored the magnitude of the Musk variable into the equation. I’d love it if there really was a deep state that would step in and come to our rescue via some kind of “special operation”.