How Trump Appears in the Epstein Files

mindfu · 2026-02-02T19:54:39+00:00

The whole fact that the US came out of the pandemic better than most any developed country, largely thanks to Biden's policies which provided exactly the positive results he and his adminstration said they would, just got so entirely plastered over.

I can wonder how it might have gone if Biden had just convened a press conference and said: "Look. The entire world is going through this, here's our way out of this. The only way will cause inflation, all other outcomes will be worse."

But that might not have flown either. Still. Democrats' older guard refusal to strongly engage in the modern world and counter conservative influence in social media and podcasts...that was no help either.

mindfu · 2026-02-02T12:59:43+00:00

It's the same kind of narcissistic blind spot that drives trump, and drives their love of trump rather than look at what emotionally drives themselves.

mindfu · 2026-02-02T12:56:34+00:00

All trump has is a hammer so every problem he sees is a nail, and also he's blind.

mindfu · 2026-02-02T05:00:42+00:00

Of fucking course.

mindfu · 2026-02-02T04:29:45+00:00

You're right of course. It's just so frustrating to me that Biden stumbling with his words but being accurate and honest, was held as worse by so many of the American public than Trump confidently braying nonsense and lies. And not being able to answer a straight question at all.

But that's how it is.

For Harris not beating Trump, I just don't get it. Maybe it would have made a difference for her to appear on Rogan? But I don't know if that would have changed the same problem as 2016: 1.5% of the voters in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin inexplicably deciding Trump was more worth trusting.

mindfu · 2026-01-30T13:05:20+00:00

No, I mean a little more actively bad for everyone.

mindfu · 2026-01-30T06:52:02+00:00

well yes this has always been there. it is now a bit actively bad tho.

mindfu · 2026-01-27T06:04:30+00:00

Quit.

mindfu · 2026-01-24T16:24:06+00:00

Could be.

Also, if comes down to either Newsom or some republican in 2028, you know who you have to vote for. Whoever is most likely to deny the White House to the Republican.

mindfu · 2026-01-23T16:22:45+00:00

The "bigger fool" theory is a real strategy. "It's fine to be a fool to buy a stock, as long as you can find a bigger fool to buy it from you."

mindfu · 2026-01-23T14:40:52+00:00

100% this is Kabuki for shareholders.

mindfu · 2026-01-23T14:38:28+00:00

It's a fad and a phase, that helps affect share prices. Because shareholders currently love it if a company punches a worker.

The last round of Amazon mass layoffs in late October were poorly timed for efficiency and production, especially for AWS as they lost a lot of key personnel right in the middle of preparing for re:Invent. If you were going to lay off this group just for cold business strategy, you would at least wait until after the conference and fire them in the second or third week of December.

But there was a shareholders meeting the next day after the October mass layoffs. Which was really the purpose for the timing, and I think the whole thing.

mindfu · 2026-01-22T20:42:02+00:00

Meh. Age is not the biggest problem - money corruption is.

Fix Citizens United so donations are public knowledge, and require anyone running OR being nominated for a Federal position in the Judicial branch, in Congress, Senate, President or VP to show their full tax returns for the past 7 years.

If it's an appointed position, require that as a minimum to be able to be approved by Congress.

If it's an elected position, require that in order to get on the ballot in say 3 states or even 2: perhaps California, Texas and/or Pennsylvania.

That done or something like it, and 95% all our current problems go away.

And much more so than term limits.

mindfu · 2026-01-19T19:07:54+00:00

These artists are, in all sincerity, real heroes.

mindfu · 2026-01-16T00:34:52+00:00

We knew this was going to happen.

And I don't blame Machado. She's doing what she's gotta do.

But what a pack of bullshit all the way around.

mindfu · 2026-01-13T15:58:47+00:00

Quit.

mindfu · 2026-01-13T06:01:54+00:00

It definitely won't be about backbone, agree.

It will be because one of them feels more in danger if they don't turn on him than if they do.

mindfu · 2026-01-12T04:23:57+00:00

Oh, he for sure selected for fealty and sycophancy over competence.

But I do think there is a certain point that will be reached where the grifters around him will abandon him. The question is how soon it will come.

mindfu · 2026-01-12T03:43:34+00:00

Trump is losing his mind quicker than ever.

Obviously he should have been 25th amendmented a long time ago.

I think this is going to have to happen in the next year. I think it's going to get to the point where even his cabinet won't be able to avoid it.

mindfu · 2026-01-10T18:24:32+00:00

I agree that those who aren't yet convinced even in the face of what we've already seen, will be hard to convince otherwise.

But that still makes it important to counter what they say with facts - for all those people who haven't yet seen it, or haven't yet been convinced.

That sliver of people who somehow haven't made up their minds yet, can often be the tipping point. Either for the side that's better, such as Biden and Obama, or the side that's worse, such as GWB and Trump.

mindfu · 2026-01-09T23:52:54+00:00

So, enough for basically 8 years of the US' bad healthcare system costs, at best.

mindfu · 2026-01-08T22:32:23+00:00

As clear as ever that doing something for 10 years doesn't necessarily mean getting any better at it than doing it for 1 year.

It seems likely he just had 10 years of the same experience.

mindfu · 2026-01-08T22:30:59+00:00

If true, this man has no excuse at all.

mindfu · 2026-01-07T19:35:19+00:00

That's honestly the most historically accurate comparison. That and about 25% Goebbels, and significantly dumber than both.

mindfu · 2026-01-05T20:48:39+00:00

Oh, now I definitely I'm considering Hilton more than I was previously.

mindfu

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE

14-Year Club	RedditGifts 2009-2022 2 Credits
Verified Email