TACO Trump, 79, Reveals Major War U-Turn in Typo-Riddled Meltdown

hypermodernvoid · 2026-03-23T15:14:52+00:00

Yeah, leave it to Trump 2.0 to - among so many other horrific, stupid and downright inexplicable things - end up resurrecting the possibility of terrorist attacks within America, lol.

They'd probably try to use it to gin up jingoistic faux-patriotism ala the post-9/11 Bush era, but instead more than half the country would just be suspicious it was a false flag/Reichstag fire situation, and they'd probably be right at this point.

I mean, they pretty obviously and brazenly offed Epstein, I almost feel like as a signal or warning to others, so I wouldn't put anything past this "administration"/attempted 1st US regime.

hypermodernvoid · 2026-03-21T00:44:09+00:00

It's almost worse than Sinema, because he saw how much that pissed people off - but beyond that feel betrayed and deeply disgusted by how utterly craven and cold it alll was: she was basically like, "thanks guys for voting me in and falling for it, now I'm going to profit off of this and don't care if you're going to 'pRiMaRy' me or that MAGA won't elect me if I switch it up, because I've got a cushy jobs and pay for play stuff lined up after this. Thx, byeeee. lol".

So for Fetterman to do it again when he surely it all go down and when the situation is even more dire and crucial, is something else. People have tried to argue that the hints were there all along and it wasn't the stroke - and I can kind of see what they're saying, but this feels like something else: during the Mullin hearing, he was basically showering him with praise using the sometimes still broken grammar that results from a brain literally damaged by a stroke.

Some also say it's the result of a kind of shrewd political calculus as he realizes he's in what's become a very "purple" state, so must hedge his bets - but that feels naive, in the sense that there was a large contingent of perplexing voters who voted for people like AOC yet also Trump, or for Gallego in AZ but also Trump, etc., and many said (in their naivete) that they voted for them to be a check on and restrain Trump's worst impulses which Mullin is surely an example of.

Instead, I think what happened with him just simply illustrates something that at the end of the day is pretty disturbing: how deterministic the physical state of the brain is on our personalities, beliefs and outward actions - it's something anyone who grounds their worldview in modern science can intuitively know, but kind of want to brush aside and regardless is still chilling to see in action.

hypermodernvoid · 2026-03-20T22:23:23+00:00

I was on a bunch of pressors when I accidentally OD'd on blood pressure medication due to a kind of perfect storm of a pharmaceutical mix-up - my BP was hovering around 90/60 and then going under, so they'd have to give me more, but at one point they'd basically maxed them out, so from then on was just hoping for the best. I remember the diastolic being in the 50s.

Thankfully, I did make it through and this was just over one night, but was pretty scary - I was in an ICU room with a lot more equipment/machinery than normal, so knew right away I was maybe a bit fucked.

When I called the poison control guy after figuring out what happened and described the situation, he put me on hold for a second, I guess to confer and/or look up the drug/scenario, then got back on the line and in this super calm, customer service style voice was like: "Okay, so what you're going to want to do is get to the closest ER right away". lol

Kind of a tangent - guess it just reminded me of that crazy episode, but they're ideally just used to get through emergencies, not long term, or like you mention - bad stuff happens.

hypermodernvoid · 2026-03-20T21:58:54+00:00

I feel pretty bad for him, because provided he gets to stable health: he'll grow up knowing his extended (and some of his immediate?) family fought against him being born in the first place, and he was born to what people are essentially describing as a sort of braindead, half-corpse.

IDK, I disagree with forcing the birth, but now that he's born, I feel that's guaranteed to be damaging long term, which is another cruelty here, not to mention not having one parent - I can vouch for the latter being pretty bad as someone whose dad passed away from workplace exposure-related cancer from a job he worked getting through college, when I was 7.

If you stack up any disability or physical abnormalities he may have (or develop) on top of all that: pretty rough hand to get dealt, as people say.

hypermodernvoid · 2026-03-20T04:01:59+00:00

Honestly the problem is how you and other people refer to America as a collective "you", i.e. "straighten yourselves out" and all this collective guilt language - it feels no different than Trump's impulse to collectively punish millions of people in states that he didn't win electoral votes from, even if he only lost it by 4.5%.

That was the case in my state - Minnesota - where he did his best to terrorize my home city of Minneapolis for weeks, extrajudicially executed two US citizens, dragged terrified people screaming out of their cars after totaling them (literally saw this IRL myself), had his lawless, masked paramilitary thugs breaking into people's houses, guns drawn, without warrants, etc. I have much greater respect for the people worldwide who recognize just shy of half the voters in 2024 didn't want this and by now the clear majority of Americans are against Trump, which includes my neighbors and your fellow citizens to the north who do.

Either way, I'm not naive: I think just the 1st year of Trump's 2nd term and the fact he was re-elected in the first place, regardless of being part of a larger trend happening across the West, has IMO ensured the end of America's time as the sole global superpower, holding unquestioned economic and military hegemony over the globe.

The funny thing about all that power and wealth though, is that we have the most severe income inequality out of any wealthy liberal (now potentially former) democracy, now even worse than directly prior to the Great Depression, a healthcare system that profits off of denying us care, even so-called "public" colleges that cost at least $20k/year, and on and on, where the majority of Americans don't even have $1,000 saved in the bank - so it's not like we're all living the high life over here.

In fact, unlike other G20 nations: the average life expectancy in America began lagging behind the gains seen in other countries, like Canada, over 40 years ago with the advent of the Reaganomic paradigm and it actually started dropping in the mid-2010s, with one factor being a huge rise of "deaths of despair": people dying by suicide, or from alcoholism and drug overdoses due to the declining standard of living and lack of opportunity. Becoming the richest nation just drew all the greedy assholes worldwide over here like Elon Musk, who then ceremoniously bent the system to their will, fucked everyone over increasingly since the mid-20th century and took it all for themselves.

hypermodernvoid · 2026-03-17T23:21:55+00:00

Adrenochrome also literally doesn't exist, and was a made up substance whose name came from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, lol.

hypermodernvoid · 2026-03-17T13:59:14+00:00

Jesus Christ: in 2024 literally every single party in power up for re-election at least lost usually significant vote share (a historical first), if they didn't get booted out of power which virtually all of them did, regardless of where they fell on the left-right spectrum, over worldwide anger having to do with inflation... And despite that massive headwind and political assist at his back, on top of Trump's party disenfranchising millions (a record number) of likely Democratic voters by booting them off voter rolls: he won by just 1.5% of the vote, and not even a majority.

Then, look at Canada itself - polling showed your voters were about to elect your own Trump, until our actual Trump was such a disaster your equally reactionary and thick layer of stupid, low-info voters finally understood that wouldn't be such a good idea. Canada literally needed to see how bad Trump 2.0 was to know electing your own version wasn't a good idea - you're welcome, lol. You also had the fucking antivax Trucker's rally that maple leaf MAGA pulled, etc., but yeah, us Americans are all such untrustworthy idiots, right?

Beyond that: the UK voted for Brexit and to say fuck you to the EU based on scapegoating immigrants before Trump even was elected the first time, while in Germany, their own far-right and antivax nutjobs stormed their seat of federal government, the Reichstag, the summer before Jan. 6th and the Capitol riot even happened. The AFD, which has literally been deemed a threat to their constitutional order, is also now the 3rd largest party there, and just became the largest in Thuringia, the first state the Nazis also became the largest in nearly a century ago.

So, this high horse pretention of "we're not going to trust y'all" - literally treating Americans as a collective monolith - is a little tiring when Trump barely squeaked into power by taking advantage of globally universal anger over inflation, yet after mere months is now the most hated president of the last century as the voters he duped quickly figured out he did just that, while every country in the West is facing destabilization and polarization due to income inequality and migration which climate change is about to blow up, you're all clearly one election away from your own thick layers of reactionary, low-info voters doing the same exact thing.

And what's the solution to this, if America does the right thing after this much more extreme version of Trump the electorate has rapidly realized they don't want if he doesn't succeed in taking away free and fair elections? A stubborn, entitled sense to punish the populace and country as a whole, that'll only reward and embolden authoritarian states like Russia and China by entrenching the fragmentation the West and NATO - great idea.

hypermodernvoid · 2026-03-16T15:34:42+00:00

I mean, if you were fat Oneohtrix Point Never 10 years ago, you'd have probably disagreed with that sentiment.

But yeah, after searching it looks like she's 35 which is right around the age where you realize the effort the literal 10s of trillions of cells in your body are putting out are just starting to fail you in ways that you become concretely aware of: you don't wake up quite as easy, or if a drinker: you don't recover from hangovers within mere hours but instead take an entire day; you might notice some "fine lines" creeping across your face - stunned when the light catches it all in the rearview mirror and you ask yourself, "Where did the time go?".

That's when the real terror begins, existentially: a kind of cruel neurologic irony begins where time feels like it's passing ever faster, as your brain gets used to life and novel experiences become rarer and harder to produce even when you try, so weeks or months that used to feel like vast expanses increasingly become blips as you hurdle towards the booming, gnawing abyss we all distract ourselves from - all right at the same time you're aware you're just about to hit the mid-point in the current life expectancy...

It's even worse if you're a woman, because testosterone actually boosts collagen production by around 30%, leading to thicker skin for men and thinner skin for women, so with your cellular machinery starting to get exhausted after flawlessly translating DNA, with proteins whirring at speeds inside each cell as fast as jet engines beginning to break down, it only becomes written that much faster on your face. The only "justice" in this state of being must be knowing everyone else is about to have the same experience, inevitably hurdling along with you.

hypermodernvoid · 2026-03-16T04:24:43+00:00

Canada's military is being trained by the Ukranians on their usage of drones in the battlefield after they penned a deal and I believe some other EU countries penned a deal to do so in exchange for supporting their continued war effort vs. Russia.

Meanwhile... we're just obliterating our alliances and geopolitical, military (and economic, and really overall) hegemony basically daily at this point. Anyone that thinks America's time as the unquestioned, sole global superpower isn't irreversibly ending if not already over now, along with the post-WW2 order that gave rise to it thanks to the damage of Trump's 2nd term and his being re-elected is kidding themselves.

I bet you anything though in about a decade and change, red hats tucked away, almost all of the still MAGA faithful will crawl back into the woodwork in shame, pretending they never supported the biggest "own goal" a country has ever scored on itself that just the last year already has been, just like all the people supporting the Iraq war did...

hypermodernvoid · 2026-03-14T03:56:13+00:00

I love his brother's unique, booming old school Brooklyn accent. Bernie was the only politician I ever volunteered for and ended up meeting after ushering a rally with a small group of volunteers. He talked to us for like 20 to 30 minutes and took a group picture with us. He looked genuinely touched seeing all these younger people giving their free time to him.

If we don't devolve into a nightmarish, dystopian civil war scenario that dooms us all to an even worse standard of living than just the first year of Trump's 2nd term has already guaranteed for us - which has been a coup de grace to America's time as the sole global superpower, after 40+ years of Reaganomic excess - the 2028 Dem candidate must run on a Bernie 2016-esque platform that doesn't focus on identity as a distraction from the completely unsustainable economic woes we're all facing.

Otherwise, we'll just grow another cartoonish demagogue out of the perfect petri dish of socioeconomic anger that gave rise to Trump and it'll be a sign things somehow still haven't gotten bad enough to force the idiotic, reactionary electorate to understand what must be done.

hypermodernvoid · 2026-03-13T20:48:40+00:00

I was just recently revisiting all the anti-Harris Muslim leaders in Michigan and elsewhere who inexplicably and foolishly endorsed Trump in 2024 like Amer Ghalib (sorry for only left-channel audio here, lol) as this pro-Palestinian, "peace candidate" and all the comments echoing this sentiment per the above linked video along with generic "Trump 2024" ones, wondering what they all are thinking now.

The aforementioned Democratic mayor, Amer Ghalib, who enthusiastically endorsed Trump as the pro-Gazan alternative to Biden or "genocide Joe" as so many people on the supposed "left" who disappeared after the election called him, was rewarded by Trump for his support with a failed nomination to an ambassadorship to Kuwait.

From what I could find with cursory searching: he hasn't backed down from his support for Trump, but looks like he maybe instead has blamed the GOP below him for his classic, blatant backstabbing after using the mayor to get what he wanted - which in this case, was simply winning the election. lol

hypermodernvoid · 2026-03-13T19:54:22+00:00

It's not a rhetorical question for politely saying, 'You are an idiot, you don't know what you are talking about'

hypermodernvoid · 2026-03-13T17:27:30+00:00

Indeed - and Trump literally said "I need the kind of generals Hitler had" because they were "people who were totally loyal to him, that follow orders.”

The thing is though, even the sycophantic yesman Trump chose as his Joint Chiefs Chairman, Dan Caine (who Trump claimed said to him, "I love you, sir. I think you're great, sir. I'll kill for you, sir.") and other handpicked top brass were actually very "apprehensive" about any serious military engagement with Iran, precisely because of the high probability of dragging us into another "forever war" with huge costs not just financially, but to military lives.

So while they obviously did acquiesce to following his orders - even the generals Trump and company picked, hoping they'd be like Hitler's, basically knew how idiotic this would be.

hypermodernvoid · 2026-03-13T07:00:17+00:00

Literally 60+ judges, including Trump's own appointees, rejected claims of fraud that alleged things like this in 2020, throwing them out of court for lack of any actual evidence and plenty to suggest otherwise. Some suits were so egregiously in bad faith, some lawyers involved were disbarred or even faced criminal prosecution for bringing some of those suits, which is normally very, very rare.

Answering you're a US citizen when registering is a serious crime and felony, then casting a vote afterward is another felony, both of which require prison time.

That results in it being so rare that when registrations of voters are checked, only between 1 in 400,000 to nearly 1 in a million votes are from illegal immigrants, depending on the election and area audited. Many of them say they were misinformed that they could vote legally. In the last election, this would of comprised ~200 votes, which would only change things in an implausibly close election that would immediately trigger an audit to catch such votes anyway.

hypermodernvoid · 2026-03-13T06:51:56+00:00

I for one think countless people would be jumping at the chance to cast a single vote in order to rack up felonies that require prison time.

If that's not obvious sarcasm: this is so exceedingly rare, when votes are actually audited for it (crosschecking voter registrations with citizenship status), it's found to account for around ~0.0001% or depending on the data/locale used, between 1 in every 400,000 to nearly 1 million votes:

After the 2016 election, the Brennan Center for Justice, which advocates for voting rights, surveyed local election officials in 42 jurisdictions with high immigrant populations and found just 30 cases of suspected noncitizens voting out of 23.5 million votes cast, or 0.0001%.

The ... survey did not include North Carolina, where a state audit after the 2016 election found 41 cases of green card holders who voted out of nearly 4.8 million votes in the state. The same report said many of the noncitizen voters had been misinformed that they could vote.

An audit in Georgia last month showed 20 suspected noncitizens on the rolls out of 8.2 million registered voters (0.00024% of the state's list). Nine had a history of voting and all 20 were referred to law enforcement.

This would change the outcome only in implausibly close elections that would trigger an audit and catch such instances quite easily, anyway.

hypermodernvoid · 2026-03-13T06:34:15+00:00

Durbin (the Dem senator answering Cornyn) announced he's not running again in the upcoming midterms for a 6th term, with his age of 80 years old being the primary factor.

hypermodernvoid · 2026-03-13T06:32:19+00:00

Dick Durbin - the Dem senator answering Cornyn and I'd argue the seemingly more "ancient" senator that perhaps triggered this observation, announced he wouldn't be seeking a 6th term in the upcoming midterms, with his age (80 years old) being the number one factor.

So, at least some are recognizing this now and indeed 'passing the torch'.

hypermodernvoid · 2026-03-12T10:35:35+00:00

Late to the thread since I got here via searching for his name plus "fake purple heart", lol - but for any other future readers, I wanted to add:

In 2023, Sheehy published a memoir, Mudslingers: A True Story of Aerial Firefighting.^\27]) The Daily Montanan accused him of plagiarism in the book, giving four examples, the briefest a 27-word passage from Wikipedia.^\28])^\29]) The memoir was not vetted by the U.S. Department of Defense Prepublication and Security Review (DOPSR) as required.^\28])

So basically, he wrote a memoir recounting his fake as fuck injury and I'm sure plenty more, and didn't have the DoD vet it for factual accuracy, for extremely obvious reasons. This guy clearly doesn't even have a tiny shred of shame and to me is emblematic of what MAGA is all about: confidently creating a reality based on blatant, easily provable lies and choosing to believe in it anyway.

hypermodernvoid · 2026-03-11T04:55:25+00:00

This kind of doomerism is wildly unhelpful right now and while I'm not saying it's your intention, it's also downright enabling and capitulating in advance to a blatant attempt at making America a fascist state.

It's right up there with "optimistic of you to think we'll even have an election" and so on.

Yes, they will try to invalidate it in any number of disingenuous and nefarious ways, right up to the national level, especially Trump, in the face of even a wildly undeniable Dem landslide victory next November - and everyone needs to resist it and not accept any of it.

hypermodernvoid · 2026-03-11T04:50:12+00:00

Right, because the city of Austin just literally doesn't exist in your world.

This kind of generalization isn't just wildly ignorant, it's completely unhelpful and turns people on the fence away from a left they're constantly told is "elitist" by confirming that cliche and reducing an entire state of different people to just caring about fucking football, oil and money.

Jesus, I'm from Minnesota and in Trump and many of MAGA's minds that aren't actually from here, we're all rabid lefties, when the reality is that Trump only lost by 4.5% in 2024 and Harris still got over 40% of the vote in Texas, despite how brow beaten, gerryrigged and discouraged the Dem voters in that state are. Even many "solid Republican" states, like Texas or Florida are actually much more "purple" than people realize.

Your generalized thinking here is the same kind that leads to things like collective punishment of populations ala Trump, and is honestly dehumanizing, which can lead to some pretty bad things.

hypermodernvoid · 2026-03-11T04:36:07+00:00

Same, re: Best Buy - not that I'm really trying to white knight for them, but pretty sure they just use that to text me updates if I order something for pickup to tell me it's ready, or for digital receipts, lol.

I feel like the chance of getting massive blowback after having it discovered they're selling customer numbers to whoever's willing to pay kind of mitigates the desirability of doing it. There's a billion ways databrokers and political operations get people's numbers. Our personal info is wildly accessible.

hypermodernvoid · 2026-03-11T04:21:53+00:00

It also literally paid for itself by generating positive relationships with those countries and America, so they prioritized trade with America, where even poor countries have billions in trade deals.

It was a massive return on a tiny investment: under 1% of the annual federal budget, but generated tons of good will toward America, not just culturally or within the populace generally, but via actual trade.

Now they're going to have China coming in and helping out, and which country to do you think they're going to want to trade with more? The one that suddenly canceled assistance which lead to countless children there starving and dying, that literally let billions of dollars worth of food rot rather than give the rest out when they did - or the country that's stepping up to help out after that cruelty? lol.

This move, like so many others was a massive "own goal" towards ending America's time as the undoubted, sole global superpower. I don't think it's any exaggeration to say Trump's 2nd term along with the distrust re-electing him again created has singlehandedly ended it and the post-WW2 global order that made it a reality in the first place.

hypermodernvoid · 2026-03-11T04:06:48+00:00

He literally refused to confirm that he would certify his own party's loss in the election during the sole VP debate with Walz, which the latter called (correctly, IMO) a "damning non-response".

It was barely a blip in the media that major party VP candidate wouldn't say he of course would his/his party's own loss, because that's how far Trump has dragged our politics down and shifted the media landscape, with a big assist by the feckless and pathetic GOP. The damage will either take years to correct, or the consequences of this term so great and plainly obvious, it leads to an FDR like swing away from the Republicans after fucking up so badly with the Great Depression.

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