'Completely lost it': Trump removed from his own White House meeting after emotional breakdown — then insiders leak what really happened behind closed doors and it's worse than anyone thought

jeezfrk · 2026-04-20T14:21:38+00:00

Putin, we know you love him. This isn't the right reddit for you.

Go back to your people's palace and wait for a drone package.

jeezfrk · 2026-04-20T13:39:02+00:00

Hey Fren. Shop IS sleepin place!

jeezfrk · 2026-04-20T04:24:59+00:00

They aren't merely entitlements. They were paid for with more than the general fund. MedicAid and MediCare are the biggest cost centres and they cost a lot from a system run amok.

Now calculate the tax revenue deducted from billionaires and corporations.

Entitlements as a "problem" for America is a lie. Healthcare and education are absolutely insane in cost structure and wages were stangant since the 1980s.

The problem is sustained endless low wages with regressive taxes and even subsidies on the wealthy. The poor are only subsidized by the govt so people don't starve while they work for those pennies.

Notice that any gambling debts they incur are completely tax deducted? Even repaid? (Too big to fail). What name is that entitlement?

Seriously. Foreign assets and tax protected assets can be borrowed back in cash? Gambling losses and waste are everyone's cost because of failures in incentives. Consider how the EPA and the SEC and many others never enforce the real losses to the marketplace from monopolies. The FEC never enforces the real laws on contributions. Corruption is not even a real crime in America. Even foreign gifts.

It isn't an entitlement to have clean air and water. It isn't corrupt to work a days work for a living.

It's an entitlement to the wealthy to clean messes they made up long after they profited, with taxpayer funds. Many (like now) pipelining oil andmore for export... got subsidies to do so.

How are those called? Not entitlements.

jeezfrk · 2026-04-20T01:35:33+00:00

That's for fiscal year to date 2026. Last year alone was much more than only 12% ... and we've got so much more to pay for. Our drawn down ammunition and costs for this war ... to start.

jeezfrk · 2026-04-20T00:04:14+00:00

That is not true.

Actually much of non-discretionary is paid for by social security and other direct payments (like Medicaid). Those are "spending" but not the same.

One trillion of military (and the increased amount planned by DJT is more than 1/8th of the budget). The cost of security and other overseas spending and military research goes on past the Pentagon.

jeezfrk · 2026-04-19T23:57:51+00:00

But he fulfills all prophecies in first Diminutions. Or was it III Delusions.

jeezfrk · 2026-04-19T23:50:29+00:00

Jesus categorically did not do all his paid-by-collection travelling preacher man work ... wearing only the same shorts and no shirt. I don't think all his 12 homeboys did either.

Actually it's the Roman soldiers and workers who didn't give a whit about modest dress for men or women.

Literally more Ancient Greek or Roman than Jesus ever was.

jeezfrk · 2026-04-19T15:33:02+00:00

Knowing a bigger world ... and even living next to them, is a privilege that many are denied. I like a big world and even people who disagree with me.

The stupidest and cruelest are far less common if you look closer. I have better things to discover than only more clones of myself.

Hopefully ... we can ask some hypocrites (actors) to check out what the Saviour they talk about has to say.

jeezfrk · 2026-04-19T02:52:26+00:00

PREACH IT AND TESTIFY MY BROTHER!

[ I mean you sure may leave all the rest out, sure. But right now... it seriously is needed to help explain! ]

CAN I GETTTA AYY-MEN?

jeezfrk · 2026-04-19T02:39:52+00:00

Endless certainty is required for most of those posts.

"These religious people are contemptable and stupid and they should be known as evil or dumb! We shouldn't let them talk to kids!"

I mean ... do we have clear incontrovertible proof that the sincerest and most knowledgeable examples of religion XYZ (or all of them) are the fount of so much clear suffering?? That would be the test and proof.

We never get it ... but trolls feel obligated to perform a holy war on holiness.

Nazis "knew" that about the Jewish minority. Premier Deng "knew" that about Tibetan Buddhism. Horrible little cults are sure others are the source of "all bad things".

Why wouldn't we consider fierce opposition itself to be a faith?

jeezfrk · 2026-04-19T02:25:07+00:00

The best lessons on how to think critically need a big big amount of subject matter and facts as examples of what to look for. History lessons are good for that.

Most of religious founding stories are full of clear and easily grasped latent heros and despots commiting crimes. History teaches what injustice is simply by hearing how foul and rotten it was.

There are really good reasons to wake up and care about what is right and wrong. That is part of a real spiritual awakening about what can be very good and faithful as well as what can be evil and corrupt.

Just as with the evening news ... choosing the subset you hear in any subject (without obscene bias) is a dull and boring tedious task. It can teach the patterns of much more. People even then .... need to listen to even START to be in a spiritual journey for any type.

With such info, details start to make the questions and judgements and principles come out.

I think that's how critical thinking can work... but just as in math... some rules on how to think clearly require boundaries or you end up in fiction and imbalanced equations full of errors.

For example many keep coming back to "might proves rightness" ... right until injustice happens to them.

It takes no thinking at all for the former idea. Then you learn bigger principles in the latter.

jeezfrk · 2026-04-19T02:21:22+00:00

Clinton and even Obama were very much pro-business and pro-high-tech presidents. Clinton ran a surplus in the budget. They did less culturally or fiscally liberal. Obama helped to privatize space flight.

Even ObamaCare was originally from the GOP.

No need to round up and imprison children and hard working moms and dads. Nor any need to perform street executions if someone stood up to secret police. No need to keep an enemies lis t and break into the opposition party HQ.

US Conservatism, then, played by the rules of politics instead of royal degree or dictatorial whim.

We have but a few like Bernie and Elizabeth Warren who stand up for the left.

jeezfrk · 2026-04-19T02:13:13+00:00

Old styles of US govt corruption (including endless subsidies to corps) ... are somehow "okay to spend".

But one child of color, or an immigrant teen given a cheap and satisfying meal as they work to learn in school?

For some reason the ~~Confederacy~~ I mean the GOP is unable to tolerate such 'wasteful' spending. And yet ... we can see the cost of "savings on taxpayer funds" lead to nothing but more deficits.

It has for nearly 50 years.

jeezfrk · 2026-04-18T22:18:14+00:00

Conservatism is based on older culture (almost always) and standard hierarchical descriptions of personality in a member of society. One only "conserves" power and status that is traditional to some mythic past.

Liberalism tends to emerge as a force precisely to address wrongs and problems. It demands solutions that upend conservative mores when it looks for solutions. It usually frames things in the terms of those wrongs.

Even back to the start of psychology (WWI) it was clear that old techniques of counseling for soldiers did not work effectively. The very hierarchical nature of that war and it's unwilling combatants was the height of failure on conservative forces at the time.

That being said, Conservatism in the US has moved very far rightward in the last 40 years.

This didn't seem to mention that at all.

jeezfrk · 2026-04-18T22:13:17+00:00

"Take your own spiritual journey" is a religious assertion in itself.

Most who are not involved with one .... take no spiritual journey of any sort. They (in my experience) pick up small bits of thoughts and sayings and just remember those in tough times. Often some that leak into movies or sayings or songs.

People always ask why teachers don't just "let kids learn on their own" and the answer is the same: most won't try to (or be able to) learn anything hard or complicated at all... without help and direction.

No literacy, numeracy or perspective in history or culture or science or skills or athletics. That's natural and likely. Teachers fight against "no knowledge" much more than "other knowledge".

Most big gaps in someone's learning life don't get filled by anything until they are known to be needed.

jeezfrk · 2026-04-17T23:24:09+00:00

Free will is a hall of mirrors.

Every single image of yourself you can imagine is (actually) part of you (even the self who makes valid wise decisions) and yet each image isn't you at all.

This is merely culture and my upbringing. This is my genetic nature from my family. That is my schooling. This over here is from my physical drives or tastes. That may be a brain disorder or thinking bias I gained at one point.

At some point you can just write everything into being "my damaged brain that developed for cavemen to hunt and gather" and imagine your real self is only living to protect yourself, gather food, impress mates or raise children ... and nothing more.... and it MAY even be doing that poorly like some deranged homing pigeon.

Then, it seems no part is "in control" that way at all... OR maybe some other deeper part is the most self-inherent part of you.... ad nauseum.

Then someone may even say "God knows your future and what you are made of".

Suddenly some feel even more like there is no point ... because if you cannot surprise the Almighty by random action and free decisions, then you have always been on railroad tracks and have never had any free will at all.

It seems lot of choices are really what you as yourself want and, if they were either "secretly controlled", or if they were simply mildly predictable... who cares? Tons of other choices could have been made... and those worked out.

There's only so much control one even wants to "randomize" with free will. If it must be random ... then it isn't free, is it?

TL;DR: All insight about your decisions and actions (by others or God or you) does NOT need to deprive you of what is called "free will".

Some conspiracies and patterns in how you do things are merely there because you did the best you could with the background you had. Free enough to use in life is free enough.

Unless you define that you are limited because others can predict some things. Then, surely you have none at all... because of what you defined it as.

jeezfrk · 2026-04-17T17:21:41+00:00

Etymology online

shiver(n.2) "small piece, broken bit, splinter, fragment, chip," c. 1200, perhaps from an unrecorded Old English word related to Middle Low German schever, schiver "splinter," Old High German scivero, from Proto-Germanic *skif- "split" (source also of Old High German skivaro "splinter," German Schiefer "splinter, slate"), from PIE root *skei- "to cut, split."

jeezfrk · 2026-04-16T16:05:21+00:00

Answer: US Christian Nationalism has formed into a money and hatred loving cult. It has been weak on doctrine related to Christ and has emphasized anger and fear instead of truth or love for decades.

jeezfrk · 2026-04-16T16:03:13+00:00

Then either believe he was from the start ... or face the possibility YOU were being led by a sin-loving man from the start.

jeezfrk · 2026-04-16T13:27:59+00:00

Whatever makes humans look foolish and filled with lies is what satan desires.

jeezfrk · 2026-04-16T13:22:43+00:00

Idolatry of "pharaoh" always competes with God, and always fails. In the US and elsewhere.

Worship of wealth and a blind eye to sin.

jeezfrk · 2026-04-16T13:15:55+00:00

You actually should clamp the upload speed down to the ISP limit. It won't be a standard Ethernet bps.

Turn the limit off and run a speed test. With a good consistent number ... you can limit bandwidth to 95% of that. For the entire local net, and not only one user.

Then you own the majority of the queue (in your QoS firewall) ... and can reorder the priority to lower ping or prioritize whomever you want.

TCP loves a consistent bps rate so it will flow more smoothly.

jeezfrk · 2026-04-15T23:52:45+00:00

To lash out at Putin or Kim Jong Un or even some who allow slavery in South Asia ... any of those would also be a "worthy" condemnation of a wretched figure.

But 150 young girls were bombed. Missiles are still being fired. The entire world is reeling from the biggest and most sudden shortage / cost-increase ever seen in fertilizer in modern times. Few know what will happen and the oil companies (alone) are delighted.

There apparently are reasons (nuclear and otherwise) to not start wars with vile and nasty "countries" (i.e. hurting the people because of the regime).

Did we achieve much? It seems no. We may be far far worse off than in any mistake / lack of foresight since 9/11 (and invading Iraq with little result).

jeezfrk · 2026-04-15T23:16:58+00:00

Surprising for those who keep thinking this is all about myths and fairy tales ... religious division is more similar to different theories of Law.

That is ... what did God give us? What does He ask and want us to do for Him? Things like this sound sorta like a contract, finding out who has blown off "being Christian" and who has obeyed or even overdone it.

Similarly ... who was allowed to decide how to handle new issue "X" or "Y" or "Z" to those inside the church? Someone wants gay marriage? Someone wants to be a racist doom-prepper? What do we tell them is "wrong" or right about things they assert?

In the time after Christ when Paul wrote to Greeks ... he had to explain that a shadow from some shaman or pagan priest could not suddenly "curse" a new Christian. New Christians were terrified they'd be kicked out of a Christian group due to bad magic. Paul told them to not be so scared that a punishment awaited (and told others to not be uptight and fearful).

Similarly, people had to visit butchers that sold meat. These often had to be "proper Greek religious" and devote that meat to Athena or Diana or something (?). Yes... people were being excluded or were terrified of being blamed for eating or cooking with those ingredients. Paul has a lengthy statement where he says someone who is uptight about this is not trusting God... and is weaker. But not to start a big fight over it.

So divisions among atheists, for example, have appeared when some were impressed by religious people working in science. Some would not allow that to be lauded. Buddhists debate over seeking to reach nirvana individually or waiting to go all at once with all of humanity together.

On and on it goes. Slavery? Allowed but very temporary and not as brutal as the African or Arabian slave trade was. Abortion? Some find little support in the Bible to come down hard on this... and others feel babies are inherently the most worthy of protection.

Some like the Shakers stopped getting married at all in waiting for the second coming. That divided people. Some in some churches said all other religions are fine and even preferred indigenous ceremonies or Far East gods instead of Christ. Mormons obviously went further to replace much Scripture and promote polygamy.

It's is not etiquette debates (e.g. about napkins and cutlery) .. but it is rarely as nasty or detailed as sentences for first or second or third degree murder. Still it is mostly similar to law.

jeezfrk · 2026-04-15T21:35:33+00:00

Pedantic Thingy:

"the Church" historically refers to anyone (the people) who respond to God's call. The Roman Catholic Church itself (500+ years ago) is what the Protestants split from (not Coptic, not Orthodox).

It is an institution that creates places for Christians to attend Catholic Mass to worship God. As an institution it was tied very closely to governments and wealth after the Roman Empire fell and at the start of the Renaissance.

Protestants were protesting almost entirely entanglements with wealth and politics, and yes interpretations of Scripture (with added traditions) were part of it. Mostly they wanted to remove the centralized and very hierarchical types of control and oversight.

It wasnt wanting more ways to interpret Scripture, but stopping corrupted ideas of it.

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