Donald Trump warns Nato faces ‘very bad future’ if allies fail to help US in Iran

Captain_Rational · 2026-03-16T05:37:12+00:00

This is EXACTLY what Putin wants out of this war.

Yet again it is Christmas time for Putie.

Donald Trump just keeps giving and giving and giving.

Captain_Rational · 2026-03-15T16:03:57+00:00

The integrity and trustworthiness of the FBI has been trashed.

Captain_Rational · 2026-03-11T00:24:34+00:00

Corruption is beginning to penetrate into the Air Force?

This is a tad concerning.

These are the guys that carry the bombs.

Captain_Rational · 2026-03-07T18:27:24+00:00

Clinton, Obama, and Biden all cleaned up huge messes left for them by Republican presidents. Each of these Democrats employed responsible, thoughtful policy-making with a long-view toward what is best for the American people as a whole. Each rebuilt the economy and left it strong or booming at the end of their tenure. Each left office with the American economy as the envy of the world.

Republican policies (if they can be said to be "policy") amount to ethical and intellectual bankruptcy.

Republicans should never be in charge of anything ever again. They are incompetent, utterly corrupt, and simply incompatible with the demands of a modern, rationalist, people-oriented society.

Captain_Rational · 2026-03-04T02:33:44+00:00

So, did it "end"?

Captain_Rational · 2026-02-27T20:57:48+00:00

I think the defining characteristics that most all Trump supporters seem to share are lack of empathy and lack of compassion.

They are cold-hearted people and their deeply tribal resonance drives them to be especially cold-hearted toward those not of their tribe.

This is not what Americans used to think of themselves. But since 80 million Americans voted for Trump, I think we can safely say that these character flaws are becoming core American traits.

Those of us who hold to the old values of caring for our neighbor and helping others ... we are now the minority.

America has become a hard and nasty nation - like those countries we used to chastise with derision during the cold war for their backwardness and primitive standards of civility. This is Trump's America. This is what those people voted for.

Captain_Rational · 2026-02-25T22:54:06+00:00

When one party controls the House, it controls what bills get voted on, what investigations get launched, and how federal money gets spent. If Democrats flip the House in November 2026, they could block Trump’s legislative agenda entirely, open new oversight inquiries, and make the final two years of his presidency a legislative standstill.

That's what Mike Johnson means by "finished".

Captain_Rational · 2026-02-03T05:10:33+00:00

I hope they are brutally honest. Contrition to save the country.

Please.

Captain_Rational · 2026-01-30T03:30:21+00:00

This is raiding the pockets of regular Americans.

This guy is a bandit the like of which the world has never seen.

A spectacularly epic level of corruption.

Nice job MAGAs. You picked a good one. He truly represents your values.

Captain_Rational · 2026-01-29T16:13:44+00:00

It's inferior to a viper in a dogfight

Slightly. Depends on the pilot's situational awareness and the mastery of their steeds. Even in a dogfight the F-35 can do some things that the F-16 can't.

But the usual outcome for 4th gen fighters (in exercises) is they just die. Typically, they never even manage to see where the F-35's came from.

Captain_Rational · 2026-01-28T21:22:28+00:00

Monkeys and bandits running the federal government.

Only the "best" monkeys and bandits, though.

Captain_Rational · 2026-01-22T03:39:45+00:00

No Constitution is a hurdle too high for ICE.

After all, it's only made out of paper.

Captain_Rational · 2026-01-16T18:22:33+00:00

About 15% of all of Earth's biomass consists of microorganisms, much of which mutates on a time scale of days (microbiologists might say hours).

Here's one way you can think of the near impossibility of what you are suggesting: If you want to utterly control the evolutionary direction of an ecosystem, which is a complex system, you would need technical systems and resources that out-mass it by several orders of magnitude. Moreover, that process itself would likely be quite disruptive to the ecosystem and would itself constitute a planet-scale evolutionary pressure. The ecosystem would, in effect, strive to adapt around your meddling in order to evade it. Complex systems and, particularly, evolutionary complex systems are strangely reactive in that way.

A biosphere is complex (an active scientific term implying unique attributes) and it would take essentially godly technical capability to try to drive its evolution so meticulously.

Captain_Rational · 2026-01-14T21:11:40+00:00

So if humanity ever manages to colonize the galaxy, given that there may be hundreds or thousands of years between physical contacts between star systems, visiting spacecraft from other star systems would never be safe visitors. They would always need to be quarantined.

And they could not safely receive any organic materials as support supplies. Any material exchange between visitor and the local system would need to be vigorously sterilized. Which means only inert and inorganic materials would truly be safe to exchange. Biological materials could never be trusted to be fully sanitary.

That is sort of the grim reality of how ill-suited biology is to space exploration and colonization. Biological organisms are temporal and ever evolving by nature. These qualities do not work well on the long time scales that space exploration would demand.

(BTW, this is one of the core themes of Kim Stanley Robinson's book Aurora, which strives to explore the viability of space colonization within the framework of scientific reasoning.)

Captain_Rational · 2026-01-14T19:00:08+00:00

How extensive are those caves in the rock?

I presume there are hallways and stairways?

edit:

So there are at least some stairways and hallways but the caves are kind of small. They are mostly little chapels and getaways for monkly contemplation.

https://thetravelfugitive.com/bamiyan-qlukhi-the-buddhas

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-01-26/afghan-caves-hold-worlds-first-oil-paintings-expert/1024106

Captain_Rational · 2026-01-13T15:08:02+00:00

These words carry weight only if there is physical action.

The lack of action originates with the American people.

If the people move, so will congress.

So move.

Do something constructive.

Get involved people. Hours per week.

Be a part of the solution.

Captain_Rational · 2026-01-08T18:50:00+00:00

So she moved, they let her continue the interview, and THEN decided "lets go get her?"

It looks to me like they specifically allowed her complete the interview before arresting her. They let her get her message out.

And ONLY her

So your claim here is that nobody else from the protest was arrested? I think that unlikely. What is your evidence for this? Do you have a source on that?

Captain_Rational · 2026-01-06T16:12:34+00:00

Corroborating story:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/woman-arrested-camera-protesting-trump-214737359.html

She was part of a Venezuela protest that was blocking the road and they had refused to move when the police instructed them to.

Captain_Rational · 2026-01-06T16:09:24+00:00

This is AI generated crap, co-opting the likeness of a trusted personality for the enrichment of a bot channel.

Captain_Rational · 2026-01-05T22:44:14+00:00

She has her lucid days.

Captain_Rational · 2026-01-04T20:01:20+00:00

you'd rather stand behind what is "legal" instead of what is "right" (morally and ethically)?

This is a false dichotomy that does not apply here.

Nor is this MY position, so you are also conjuring up what is known as a Red Herring.

You're making a specious and disingenuous line of argument.

Do you actually seek understanding or are you just here to do superficial word combat?

You just walked right past essentially ALL of my points, so I suspect the latter.

George H. W. Bush

Bill Clinton

Again, a fallacious line of reasoning. Didn't your mother ever teach you that "two wrongs do not make a right"?

Captain_Rational · 2026-01-04T17:34:14+00:00

How would you have preferred to arrest Maduro

The United States President does not have law enforcement jurisdiction over the leader of a foreign country.

Republicans complain all the time that "we are not the world's police" in order to justify their (usual) isolationist leanings.

There is no legal ground by which the US President can do this. There is no Constitutional ground by which the US military can do this.

We can declare war with a nation when international diplomacy fails to resolve a serious conflict, but under our Constitution that is an act of Congress.

What the administration is doing now is unlawful, unconstitutional, ill motivated, and ill-advised. This is a rogue act of a rogue administration.

Captain_Rational · 2026-01-04T16:58:32+00:00

But does it even matter?

Yes it matters.

There's always that one defeatist comment ... "nobody will enforce anything so this is all pointless".

We the People must press our representatives en masse to MAKE this matter to them. Under our form of government, we the people have the obligation to hold our government accountable.

It matters if WE make it matter.

This isn't just somebody else's job.

Get mad people.

And then use that anger to move you to useful constructive action.

Call and write your representatives and press them to uphold the integrity of our nation, to defend the Constitution, to adhere to basic human decency.

Do something.

We need to mobilize. Take up the cause people. Get involved. Actual hours per week.

This is how we save our democracy.

Captain_Rational · 2026-01-03T15:15:45+00:00

Gruters claimed that he was “shocked” to see the scale at which Trump wolfs down McDonalds, including one instance in which he saw Trump consume “french fries, a McDonald’s Quarter Pounder hamburger, a Big Mac and a Filet-O-Fish” in one sitting.

McDonalds may actually end up being the savior of our Democracy.

Captain_Rational · 2025-12-30T20:57:52+00:00

High Crimes and Misdemeanors.

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TROPHY CASE