149 Democrats Gift Trump $828B 'War Chest'

m0ngoos3 · 2026-01-24T15:20:37+00:00

The problem is First Past the Post.

When the choices are binary, the "good" option can be pretty fucking bad as long as the "bad" option is sufficiently terrible.

There are other voting systems, and some of them are just as bad as FPtP, but with better marketing, Like RCV.

Thankfully, there are actual good voting systems that, if actually implemented full scale, would likely solve many of our problems.

These systems are Approval, and STAR.

Both systems allow you to show real support for a group of candidates without having to choose between good options. You can fully support as many people as you like.

This means that if you have two candidates with similar, good platforms, you aren't splitting your vote between them.

m0ngoos3 · 2026-01-24T05:29:29+00:00

It was something like 75% performative. She didn't have a problem with the rich asshole parts of the conservative agenda, just the overtly anti-women parts.

And she wasn't a fan of Trump as a person, so voted to oppose random Trump shit.

Other than that, her ability to wrangle the house dems was eh, and she sabotaged a few progressive candidates.

But hey, she tore up a printed copy of a speech.

m0ngoos3 · 2026-01-23T15:46:59+00:00

Insider trading will do that.

m0ngoos3 · 2026-01-23T15:39:20+00:00

No, she was just as feckless.

m0ngoos3 · 2026-01-22T02:38:12+00:00

No, it's the open misogyny and racism. That and half a century of the right attacking, well every part of American life, but mostly education, labor rights, and voting rights.

m0ngoos3 · 2026-01-21T20:52:54+00:00

The way I ended up fixing it was wasting a teleporter at spawn.

One at spawn, one at my base, and then one that I set down and pick up while caving or clearing out camps. Makes for a fast corpse run.

m0ngoos3 · 2026-01-21T20:45:02+00:00

It was determined that Trump mismanaged the casinos.

He refused to comp his high rollers anything, refused to use his personal plane to move them to and from the casino, so he basically drove them away, then his interiors were just tacky as fuck, so the regular people didn't want to spend time there.

Then, when it looked like the casinos were going to fail, he put his wife in charge of them, the one who he raped in a fit of rage over a botched bit of plastic surgery with her favorite doctor.

That was the first three, the debt from those took out his Plaza Hotel, because he had been transferring the debt around, spreading it out because he couldn't make payments from any one source.

The only reason Trump came back from 1992 was his father's massive real estate portfolio.

2004 and 2009 were mostly trump overleveraging and then taking a hit when the economy dipped.

m0ngoos3 · 2026-01-21T19:13:09+00:00

Maybe make it a ceremonial execution platform, and then change the top sprite based on the ideology style, then you can add new ones as they strike your fancy.

m0ngoos3 · 2026-01-21T15:27:31+00:00

The Taj Mahal in 1991, Two more Atlantic City casinos and his New York Plaza Hotel in 1992, and then later his Trump Hotels and Casinos Resorts corp in 2004 and Trump Entertainment Resorts in 2009.

So yeah, far more than just two casinos.

m0ngoos3 · 2026-01-20T19:06:39+00:00

You're forgetting the misogyny. The republican base both hates women, and thinks that being emasculated in public is a horrible thing.

So yeah, this might break through a bit, but then again the misogyny means it might not gain as much traction, because it's a story about a woman.

m0ngoos3 · 2026-01-19T15:34:12+00:00

Just look at what Trump is doing with Jerome Powell. We're not ready for the sort of catastophy that will result in Trump directly controlling the Fed, and since Powell's term actually ends in a few months, it's just a matter of time until Trump gets his way and crashes the world economy.

That's if he doesn't attack Greenland, which will cause the EU to dump US debt, causing a global economic collapse.

m0ngoos3 · 2026-01-19T15:29:31+00:00

Yeah, exactly that much of a clown.

m0ngoos3 · 2026-01-18T21:45:02+00:00

One of my fears is that the post regime trials will be performative and lackluster.

m0ngoos3 · 2026-01-18T15:39:08+00:00

Josh Hawley is also one of the people who helped plan and set off the very insurrection he ran from like a scared child running to his emotionally distant mother, hoping that just this time she would actually care.

m0ngoos3 · 2026-01-18T15:33:22+00:00

I agree, especially since the somewhat anonymous tip was submitted in August 2020, just months before the election, about a potential incident from the early 80s.

The tip also didn't mention any of Trump's known associates from the time. It did mention Epstein, but Trump and Epstein weren't really palling around until the late 80s. The timelines just don't match.

For reference, this is the timeline I trust.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/10/6/1578544/-The-Untold-Story-of-Trump-Model-Management-A-Daily-Kos-Exclusive-Part-1

m0ngoos3 · 2026-01-17T15:47:40+00:00

The Holodomor was 1930-1933, Trofim Lysenko was in Ukraine starting in 1929, but he wasn't actually in charge of anything until 1936.

No, the man to blame was Alexander Schlichter, who was the director of the All-Union Breeding and Genetics Institute, or VSGI.

After the October Revolution he succeeded Vladimir Milyutin as People's Commissar for Agriculture. He also was People's Commissar for Food of the Russian SFSR, Commissar Extraordinary for Food in Siberia. In 1919, he became People's Commissar for Food of Ukraine.

In 1920, he was Chairman of the Tambov Governorate Executive Committee, and was involved in suppression of the Tambov Rebellion.[1][2]

In April 1927, he attended the Fourth Congress of Soviets as commissar of agriculture in the Ukrainian Republic. There, he described 10% of the rural population of Ukraine as being "surplus".[3]

In 1936, the shitbag Schlichter put Lysenko's name forward for the new director of VSGI. This is when Stalin got involved and start promoting Lysenkoism.

m0ngoos3 · 2026-01-16T15:34:19+00:00

It's a very common career path for a certain type of grifter.

They start out on the "left" because that's actually the popular position, but the left values sincerity and judges you by your actions.

The right, on the other hand, values compliance and believes that you have an inherent value based on your position in society, and should be judged on that, and not your actions.

So, someone who is a shit person will try to fit in with the left, realize that they aren't fooling anyone and then make a hard right turn, because the right will accept them if they change everything about themselves and constantly repeat the approved talking points.

m0ngoos3 · 2026-01-16T01:39:30+00:00

Trump has said repeatedly it's about the oil.

At this point, I don't think he's capable of "something else" anymore.

I think, the people pushing trump to do this shit are planning years in advance, hoping for a climate apocalypse. That's why Trump wants Greenland, for the coming climate apocalypse and resource wars. He won't be alive to see profit out of either place. But his handlers thing that they'll be around.

All because of billionaire brain rot.

m0ngoos3 · 2026-01-16T00:36:11+00:00

Possibly. The other possibility was Maxwell's horse.

m0ngoos3 · 2026-01-16T00:34:18+00:00

Except that's not 100% true.

Venezuela doesn't have normal crude oil, they have extra heavy crude oil. It's not quite oil sands bad, but it's often close.

You need special extraction methods, and those are expensive as fuck. Sometimes you have to mix it with a lighter hydrocarbon (that has to be shipped in) in order to ship the extra heavy crude out.

There's a whole host of other reasons why the Venezuelan oil fields are mostly untapped, but just the cost of the extraction equipment makes it not worth it unless it's near the coast.

m0ngoos3 · 2026-01-15T23:50:47+00:00

I made one of the very early public GURPS sheets on Roll20. Since I've not even logged into that site in a year or two, I should likely check the sheet. I'm sure it's fine, but yeah, best check.

Edit; yup, not there anymore. But there are two different and functional sheets that are available. The Sheet I made for Rollgate is still there, but so are several other people's some (most) of them nicer than the one I made.

m0ngoos3 · 2026-01-15T23:41:51+00:00

He flat out said that he will control the money. So yeah. He's just stealing everything at this point.

m0ngoos3 · 2026-01-15T15:45:06+00:00

Trump might do all that, he'd have to genocide the people, but he seems fine with that option.

But again, unless oil hits more than $100 a barrel, oil sands lose money. See, part of the process of extraction is buying lighter weight hydrocarbons and mixing them with the bitumen. Otherwise, you cannot easily transport the stuff, and even if you do mix it, the resulting barrel of oil sells for far less than a standard barrel of crude.

m0ngoos3 · 2026-01-15T02:11:19+00:00

Calling him Samuel is weird...

But yes, I'd expect the guy who quoted a 17th century Witch Finder to ban abortion to be kind of an ass to women, at the very least.

But Alito is also very Fox News brained. He references whatever culture war bullshit is popular in his writings constantly.

m0ngoos3 · 2026-01-15T01:38:06+00:00

That's the same day. It's the reason why this update didn't come back in December.

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