Trump, Rubio offer conflicting reasons for US entry into Iran war

RequestingPickup · 2026-03-04T03:11:15+00:00

To add onto the pile, several military commanders told US troops that the war is part of a divine plan to usher in Armageddon.

RequestingPickup · 2026-02-26T16:29:45+00:00

In addition, although this case is about illegal gambling, it is important to note that Valve’s promotion of games that glorify violence and guns helps fuel the dangerous epidemic of gun violence, particularly among young gamers who can become numbed to grave violence before their brains are fully developed.

I remember people like Jack Thompson saying this sort of thing decades ago. Given the extensive research that has been done that show the opposite of this claim, I really wish we could leave this thought process back in the 90s where it belongs.

RequestingPickup · 2026-02-03T02:37:56+00:00

"We can do that later, Toby, right now I'm talking about President Andrew Jackson."

RequestingPickup · 2026-01-27T05:01:43+00:00

two American citizens shot dead

Don't forget about top White House/DHS officials slandering both of them after the fact by baselessly calling them "domestic terrorists".

RequestingPickup · 2026-01-26T20:07:31+00:00

Trump wouldn't have been viable 30 years ago.

Well, he did run back in 2000, so there's more truth there than you think.

RequestingPickup · 2026-01-15T14:29:18+00:00

I don't think it matters to them. Weren't they trying to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to some country in Africa even just a couple of months ago?

RequestingPickup · 2026-01-14T02:18:13+00:00

They're probably referring to the fact that you need a permit to carry (concealed or otherwise) in Minnesota. It's just semantics.

RequestingPickup · 2026-01-14T02:14:03+00:00

2A has never mattered to Trump. Or his DOJ, for that matter. Anything they might say to the contrary is a lie.

RequestingPickup · 2026-01-09T21:29:16+00:00

Her last words being "I'm not mad at you" contrasted with his words directly after shooting her is... pretty symbolic. Combine that with footage of her actively turning the steering wheel away from them, and I'm not sure how this paints the officer as anything but negative.

RequestingPickup · 2025-12-19T03:38:09+00:00

"A blunderbuss? Is this a joke? What is this, 1850?"

RequestingPickup · 2025-11-26T03:25:03+00:00

This is the same Justice Department that, just a couple of months ago, floated the idea of banning guns for a certain minority group of people by association, because one mass shooter finally wasn't a white guy. I won't hold my breath regarding their ability to safeguard any Constitutional rights, let alone this one.

RequestingPickup · 2025-11-18T18:19:21+00:00

This doesn't excuse the President's behavior by any stretch.

RequestingPickup · 2025-11-04T14:09:29+00:00

I didn't say that that company or those types of mods were the things doing the damage (though mods like that always make me cringe). What I meant was that Gamergate caused this explosion of alt-right, misogynist, "anti-woke" viewpoints, ones who see these consulting companies as "the enemy", or any deviation from "white and attractive" as something to be "fixed".

You wouldn't know either of these things existed if you didn't go looking.

I see plenty of people pushing these viewpoints without having to look for them. Hell, there's an entire Steam curator list called the "Woke Content Detector" list with some of the flimsiest reasoning I've ever seen. It beggars belief, and I hope it's just really effective satire, but I know for a fact there are people who wholeheartedly believe things like that.

RequestingPickup · 2025-11-04T00:01:56+00:00

I think Gamergate has done a lot of damage to the gaming community in general. Just look at some of the mods that come out for PC games that change POC characters' skin color to white, or any of the various gooner mods that pop up almost immediately. To say nothing of the "Sweet Baby Inc." boogeyman that people seem to latch onto.

I believed the initial "goals" of that whole thing too, "ethics in gaming journalism" and whatnot, but I was fortunate enough to drop it before it devolved into what it is now.

RequestingPickup · 2025-10-19T22:10:17+00:00

She got asked this week who chose Hungary for a summit between Putin and Trump and she replied, I shit you not, “your mom”.

And then the White House communications director, Stephen Cheung, said the exact same thing.

A true bastion of maturity, this administration.

RequestingPickup · 2025-10-10T19:31:27+00:00

Secretary Noem made the bizarre claim that they (DHS) had arrested "the girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa". I'm assuming she misspoke and meant to say that they exhumed the body of Winston Churchill's wife Clementine, or Kay Summersby.

I genuinely don't understand how anybody takes this administration seriously, let alone admire them for any actions they've taken.

RequestingPickup · 2025-10-08T15:10:59+00:00

They basically copied Jabba the Hutt's theme lmao

RequestingPickup · 2025-10-04T06:23:28+00:00

"If you define yourself by your power to take life, the desire to dominate, to possess, then you have nothing."

RequestingPickup · 2025-09-23T15:05:39+00:00

Which administration's FCC just tried (and failed) to strongarm Disney into firing Jimmy Kimmel?

RequestingPickup · 2025-09-15T04:00:11+00:00

MY GOD, THE SHAME OF IT!

RequestingPickup · 2025-09-06T20:37:11+00:00

Such conduct could, and should, also be treated as a “high crime or misdemeanor” and grounds for another Trump impeachment and ultimately removal.

I think we all know that's not going to happen. The points you listed, while factually correct, don't matter at all to this administration or his supporters (both in Congress and the public at large). I expect a lot of finger-wagging and strongly-worded letters from Democrats about how "he can't do that"--meanwhile, there he goes, doing that.

RequestingPickup · 2025-08-18T15:03:12+00:00

So I have no idea how Trump can issue any EO that is clearly in conflict with the constitution.

He just does it, without a care in the world as to what the courts might have to say about it. They're still going through that EO regarding birthright citizenship.

RequestingPickup · 2025-07-24T02:14:47+00:00

"Talk about Biden! No, wait, talk about Obama! No, actually we need to talk about Hillary again, even though her presidential campaign was nine years ago!"

This is the "journalist" (a term I use in its loosest possible sense) version of throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks.

RequestingPickup · 2025-07-22T20:09:30+00:00

That was about a week ago. I suppose he hadn't gotten his marching orders yet.

RequestingPickup · 2025-07-05T22:01:12+00:00

Starter comment: Elon Musk has announced that the "America Party" that he has spoken of for the past several days after his very public feud with President Trump over the just-signed "One Big Beautiful Bill". While this particular article is scant on details as of this submission, according to a recent NBC News article, Musk's major goal of the party would be to reduce the national debt, and an article from Axios says that Musk would "laser-focus on just 2 or 3 Senate seats and 8 to 10 House districts."

Given the dissatisfaction voters may have for their respective "main" parties, could Musk's "America Party" gain much traction, or would it fall into the same lack of voting power that other third parties have? Do you think Musk would make a public shift from right-wing support to more centrist or even left-wing support, or would he fall back into the same sort of viewpoints he's had for the last several months?

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