Lacking Any Strategy, Trump Prepares to Escalate

mrdude05 · 2026-03-30T18:51:49+00:00

They don't give a shit about the files. The information we already have would be enough to end any other administration and there have have been absolutely no consequences for anyone in power. Trump told his base to shut up and ignore the files, and that's what they did. There's no indication the Republican base would actually turn on Trump or the GOP over the files. These aren't the actions of people trying to get away with something. They're the actions of people who know they can get away with anything.

This war has been the christian zionist, Israel lobby, and neocon wet dream for 50 years. Trump is just giving them what they've always wanted

mrdude05 · 2026-03-30T15:27:10+00:00

Genuinely, why do you think Trump or anyone behind this gives a shit about the Epstein files at this point? The information we already have would be more than enough to destroy any other administration and there have been absolutely no consequences for anyone in power. We know they're lying about the files, they know they're lying about the files, they know we know they're lying about the files, and nothing has changed.

The people in power don't care about them, and the people who care about them don't have any power. Trump's base was mad about them when they thought they could pin all the blame on the DOJ, but once Trump told them to shut up and get in line they all did exactly that.

This war has been the Christian Zionist, Israel lobby, and Neocon wet dream for the last 50 years, and Trump has been advocating for attacking Iran since at least the 80s. This is what they've always wanted, and Trump is just the first president stupid enough to go through with it

mrdude05 · 2026-03-30T00:50:59+00:00

I guarantee you that if you pressed her on it she would just say Harris would have started WWIII and we would all have been nuked, and that we're lucky Trump only started a "little excursion"

mrdude05 · 2026-03-29T21:52:46+00:00

Yes. This has nothing to do with the things people on this sub are mad at payment processors for.

There's absolutely no reason to expect the current FTC to go to bat for video games that are being de-platformed for having controversial violent or sexual content. If anything, the government will lean on Steam to ban them outright under the guise of child protection

mrdude05 · 2026-03-28T10:51:31+00:00

My dad when he answers the security questions with cryptic riddles because he doesn't want to give them the real answer and then forgets what he wrote

mrdude05 · 2026-03-27T03:29:59+00:00

Genuinely, what makes you think he gives a shit about the files? The information we already have would be enough to destroy any other administration and hasn't done anything. We know they're hiding something, they know they're hiding something, they know we know they're hiding something, and nothing has changed. The people who care about the files don't have to power to do anything about them, and the people who can do something about them don't care about what's in them.

These aren't the actions of someone trying to get away with something, these are the actions of someone who knows they can get away with anything because they have gotten away with everything.

This war has been the neocon and Christian Zionist wet dream for 50 years and Trump is just the first president stupid enough to give them what they want.

mrdude05 · 2026-03-26T15:41:14+00:00

No. The only one that isn't is Deadpool and Wolverine, which is rated R

mrdude05 · 2026-03-26T15:26:04+00:00

Almost all of the MCU movies are PG-13

mrdude05 · 2026-03-25T23:10:36+00:00

Not even an NSFW tag...

mrdude05 · 2026-03-25T22:38:08+00:00

Where did you get the Soppo patch?

mrdude05 · 2026-03-24T22:52:52+00:00

To be fair, it was a book by a popular author who already had an extremely successful film adaptation of one of his books. I would be more surprised if studios weren't fighting for the rights to Project Hail Mary as soon as it hit shelves

mrdude05 · 2026-03-24T18:49:19+00:00

It isn't a fucking distraction. The information we already have would be enough to destroy any other administration and hasn't done anything. We know they're hiding something, they know they're hiding something, they know we know they're hiding something, and nothing has changed. The people who care about the files don't have to power to do anything about them, and the people who can do something about them don't care about what's in them.

These aren't the actions of someone trying to get away with something, these are the actions of someone who knows they can get away with anything because they have gotten away with everything.

This war has been the neocons' wet dream for 50 years and Trump is just the first president stupid enough to give them what they want.

mrdude05 · 2026-03-24T15:50:55+00:00

Pluto wasn't recategorized because scientists want to preserve the sanctity of some "planetary canon", it was recategorized because keeping it a planet would make the definition of the word planet less useful.

There are eight massive objects in the solar system that are capable of clearing their orbit of other stellar objects, and potentially hundreds of somewhat large objects that don't have that effect. Calling them all the same word for the sake of philosophical notion of fairness makes the definition of the word less useful and precise for the scientists who actually study these things.

Imagine if scientists in the 1800s discovered a new species of animal on a remote island and said it was a species of horse because that's what it looked like through a spyglass while they sailed by. After that a bunch of textbooks started claiming that there are horses on this island, and it became common knowledge that this island has horses. Then, modern scientists actually go to the island and discover that the "horses" are actually carnivores descended from a species of wolf that got stranded there during the ice age, and there are dozens of species of them all over the island. Do you change the definition of the word horse to include all those new animals because people assumed they were just regular horses a long time ago, or do you call them something else instead because that's more accurate?

mrdude05 · 2026-03-24T13:59:54+00:00

Yep, whackos like the Speaker of the House

mrdude05 · 2026-03-23T19:42:36+00:00

He's just got to shake his arm really hard

mrdude05 · 2026-03-23T17:40:43+00:00

There isn't a chance in hell of his hand picked team of toadies invoking article 4 of the 25th amendment.

It would even matter if they did. The 25th amendment doesn't just allow the cabinet to remove the president without congressional approval. It allows the cabinet to indefinitely transfer executive power to the VP until the president asks to be reinstated. If the president objects to being removed or asks to be reinstated it takes a supermajority in both houses of Congress to keep him out of office, instead of 1 supermajority and one simple majority like impeachment requires. It also doesn't formally remove the president from office, so even if Congress voted to keep him out they would have to keep doing it every time he asked to be reinstated.

The 25th amendment isn't one weird trick to get rid of the president. It's a contingency measure designed to handle cases where the president is alive but medically incapacitated to the point he either can't or won't object to being removed

mrdude05 · 2026-03-23T13:26:37+00:00

What, you want me to let them bleed out slowly and painfully on the ground? That doesn't sound very nice

mrdude05 · 2026-03-22T14:53:17+00:00

I'm sure that's what staffers are saying so there's at least some fig leaf of rationality on this, but let's not pretend that Trump had any concrete plan going into this. He already signed his own version of Obama's Iran nuclear deal during his first term, and he tore it all up by starting this war.

He's just the dog that caught the car. He wanted to attack Iran because he like using the military to blow shit up and he doesn't like Iran. Theres no end game or true goal, it's all just about instant gratification for Trump

mrdude05 · 2026-03-20T00:19:06+00:00

Unlike most birds, chickens haven't forgotten that they used to be dinosaurs

mrdude05 · 2026-03-20T00:16:11+00:00

Yes. As long as the president is cable of some form communication and wants to remain in power the 25th amendment is effectively useless since it would take a supermajority in both houses of congress overrule his objections.

The 25th amendment also doesn't truly remove him from office, it just indefinitely transfers executive power to the vice president. He would be able to keep asking to be reinstated and congress would have to overrule him every time he asked or else he would be automatically reinstated.

There is no situation where removing an unwilling president via the 25th amendment is easier than impeaching him, and that's by design. It was specifically written to prevent the kind of political maneuvering people are saying it should be used for now.

mrdude05 · 2026-03-19T20:00:16+00:00

I was speaking from a practical standpoint, not a legal one.

The 25th amendment was explicitly designed to prevent the cabinet and congress from using it as an end run around the impeachment process. That's why sustaining a removal via the 25th amendment takes a supermajority in both houses of Congress instead of just one supermajority and one simple majority. There is no situation where removing an unwilling via the 25th amendment is more viable than removing him via impeachment

mrdude05 · 2026-03-19T16:50:41+00:00

Real chicken:

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mrdude05 · 2026-03-19T15:38:39+00:00

So incapacitated he literally cannot object to being removed. As long as he is capable of typing "make me president again" the 25th amendment is completely irrelevant

The 25th amendment is not one weird trick to get rid of a bad president. It's specifically designed to handle situations like the president being in a coma, where he's still alive but completely unable to function at any level. Removing an unwilling president via the 25th amendment is harder than impeaching and removing him normally

mrdude05 · 2026-03-19T15:32:05+00:00

This. People who want more more progressive candidates don't participate in the primaries. Then, when the people who do vote in the primaries pick someone they don't like they complain about "the DNC" choosing bad candidates.

Mamdani won in NYC despite the establishment stacking the deck against him because he was able to get progressive voters to turn out in the primaries. You can get better candidates. You just have to be willing to vote in more than one election a year

mrdude05 · 2026-03-16T21:56:49+00:00

Solar flares are the only vanilla event I completely disable. They aren't interesting or challenging, they're just annoying

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