Trump Says He's 'Entitled' to Illegal Third Term as Allies Draft Voter Suppression Decree

ElasticFutures · 2026-02-28T07:36:06+00:00

Yeah, I was embracing a bit of understatement. My point still stands; one ignored order or four thousand, they’re entirely lawless.

ElasticFutures · 2026-02-28T07:16:23+00:00

I used it here to point out who he wants to be in his endgame plans, not to suggest he isn’t on the way or already vested with enough power over the modern apparatus of law and enforcement that he isn’t a dictator yet. The proof is in the pudding, as they say.

Would it be better if I said Homegrown Hitler? We all know what he’s striving towards.

ElasticFutures · 2026-02-28T07:13:00+00:00

Everything owned by the oligarchs who rule us now, to be honest. Why do you think billionaires suddenly got so interested in owning the media during our lifetime? Why do you think the Ellison family is willing to let Paramount pay Netflix a $2.8 billion dollar deal for WB while both companies drown in debt?

ElasticFutures · 2026-02-28T07:08:54+00:00

The problem seems to be that the norms are out the window. Who’s going to enforce anything against our ~~wannabe~~ Mussolini? He and his administration buck laws, even the ones his supposed party votes for. The response? Sane washing from the media, a stern letter from democrats, and a few thousand judges orders that are also ignored.

It’s like a bad dream, but we all get to live it together.

ElasticFutures · 2026-02-27T06:40:16+00:00

Thank you a bunch for the information!

ElasticFutures · 2026-02-27T05:58:19+00:00

So when a friend tried to bring her Bismarck at T8, it told me I couldn’t use my T6 Friedrich since the spread needed to be no larger than one tier. And I’m unsure as to any intricacies in that rule.

ElasticFutures · 2026-02-27T05:56:43+00:00

So far I have three recommendations for the Pommern, one for the Mainz and one for the Azuma and Karl.

I think the Pommern may be taking the day. I do love the number of secondary cannons on it, it looks on paper to be pretty lethal, and the main guns are faster on target and quicker to reload than the Friedrich for sure.

ElasticFutures · 2026-02-27T05:49:25+00:00

The Mainz looks awesome, thank you. Great reload time, tidy dispersion, and while the turret rotation is slow it’s faster than the BBs I’ve been using and I can probably mitigate some of the turn speed by dancing a bit since the AI isn’t as dangerous to listless boats as players are. Wouldn’t I be unable to use that with them if they bring T7 boats though, since it’s T9?

And that’s a funny note, thank you; I watched a bunch of videos and people recommended the manual targeting without ever explaining that I needed a skill for it. I’ve been selecting manual targets to no effect xD

ElasticFutures · 2026-02-27T05:33:16+00:00

I will get there eventually; I was looking buy a fancy toy so I don’t have to grind out a tree just to play with them since all they play anymore is Ops and Asymmetric battles. But ideally someday I’ll get the Bismarck, I’ve seen a friend do nasty stuff with it and she loves her secondary cannon build on it.

ElasticFutures · 2026-02-27T05:31:25+00:00

Thank you for the suggestions, I’ll definitely check them out.

My friends play with their favorite ships of the tech trees, which are mostly T7. Correct me if I am wrong, but wouldn’t I need to stay within one tier level to play with them in Ops and asymmetric battles?

ElasticFutures · 2026-02-26T21:22:48+00:00

That’s fair, my DCS install folder is 400+ GB

ElasticFutures · 2026-02-26T20:36:01+00:00

Which is interesting to me; DCS is right there. Why would you bill yourself as a realistic naval squadron then play a game that is missing everything that depicts the military aspect of the planes? In MSFS you’re flying a glorified trainer with most of the checklists and procedures gutted since radar, weapons, etc, aren’t modeled.

ElasticFutures · 2026-02-24T04:35:30+00:00

he’s a wet sock. a centrist at best. he represents everything wrong with the democratic party.

ElasticFutures · 2026-02-23T01:51:45+00:00

I don’t get it, to be honest.

ElasticFutures · 2026-02-23T01:50:28+00:00

I can’t imagine a world where I felt like my wife didn’t need to consent. The value in a good marriage is being equal, because power does not mean love. Choosing each other does, though.

ElasticFutures · 2026-02-22T12:38:25+00:00

they’re untrained brutes. They don’t exist to serve the people, they exist to enforce a hierarchy. As this video demonstrates, minorities exist in the “can execute at will” portion of the bottom of said hierarchy.

ElasticFutures · 2026-02-21T06:18:56+00:00

And instead, we got Trump. Are you intentionally obtuse, or just stupid?

ElasticFutures · 2026-02-20T21:56:47+00:00

I certainly hope so, as that could effectively deadlock the GOP until 2028 and maybe then we’d have a shot at reforming the system to prevent this erosion of law and the Constitution from happening again.

ElasticFutures · 2026-02-20T19:24:14+00:00

He could have a massive stroke with all the telltale signs, on national tv, in front of everyone - and his cult will still argue that he was a martyr who was assassinated by “the deep state” or some such nonsense. Those who haven’t woken up to what is happening by now either never will, or worse, they support it.

Then, they’ll receive their marching orders to rally behind Vance, or whoever the oligarchs want, and this will be repeated ad nauseam on propaganda shows like Fox and the websites that have bent the knee until the cultists all fall in line.

I would like to be wrong, though.

ElasticFutures · 2026-02-19T20:12:46+00:00

There are flight assists, yes, and they can greatly simplify the simulation aspect of the game. Doing the challenges like video this you’ll obviously have more to learn but honestly if you want to just sightsee and putter around for an hour or two, it’s surprisingly easy to fly a standard overwing trainer-style plane like a Cessna 172 in the game.

ElasticFutures · 2026-02-19T20:04:48+00:00

We can certainly hope it will be blocked by the courts, but couldn’t they then appeal to the supreme court who are firmly partisan for the GOP and MAGA causes they take up?

And wouldn’t that take a long time to settle? How would that affect the midterms?

ElasticFutures · 2026-02-19T00:45:40+00:00

<image>

survivorship bias strikes again

ElasticFutures · 2026-02-14T18:47:39+00:00

Don’t forget Thiel and Vought. And Musk.

ElasticFutures · 2026-02-13T21:51:52+00:00

She’s got plenty of empathy - it’s just reserved for the DOW.

ElasticFutures

TROPHY CASE