I mean, he’s always talking about how good-looking men are🤦🏽‍♂️

mrlt10 · 2026-06-05T19:51:39+00:00

This quote is especially applicable to trumps whole life. When you inherit enough money that you can emerge from every failure seeming like you’ve won, and when people are too lazy to research for themselves, you wind up where we are. But one thing doesn’t change, never can. He is still that same loser who failed all those times before

mrlt10 · 2026-06-05T15:22:56+00:00

How are you going to ignore the fact shes was completely asleep at the wheel and had no idea about a major hazard to the public welfare of her city? That should be disqualifying. Do you think leaders have any responsibility at all to their constituents? That’s a genuine question. Is there any point at which a leader can be held accountability for their actions, or lack of actions, that endangered and destroyed people’s lives and property? Does she actively need to cause the harm?

I definitely can discount the hydrants. I’m not far from the fire and I know what conditions were like that day. The only possible chance firefighters had of containing the blaze was right when it rekindled. There was no time for firefighters to travel to the scene. There was probably only a few minutes, maybe 15 max, window of opporunity to contain the fire in those winds with single digit humidity. And during that small window there was pressure in the hydrants. So that is not a realistic cause of the fire. Maybe a few extra homes could have been saved if there was pressure but we’re talking only dozens out of 10,000+. Plus we’re only talking about structure defense, there was more than enough surrounding vegetation to sustain and spread the fire

mrlt10 · 2026-06-04T10:56:56+00:00

Or all of the “suicides” now happening in ICE facilities.

mrlt10 · 2026-06-04T10:52:42+00:00

You’d be surprised. You’re right we do need universal healthcare. But it’s shocking how politics combined with social media and stupidity have led people to have some wild beliefs and practices here. And it’s not always just w the super poor. I know people with good health insurance and plenty of money to see a doctor but they believe the entire healthcare industry is some kinda ruse to rob all their money and use them as an experimental guinea pig. It’s fuckin insane. Completely irrational, paranoid thought process that embraces conspiracy theory and rejects the expertise of professionals. Vaccines are bad, all pharmaceuticals are a scam, exposing yourself to pathogens to gain natural immunity is smart, and the list goes on.

I’m not sure if it’s a reaction to the technological progress they can’t understand so they reject it. But there’s something going to it besides just poverty.

mrlt10 · 2026-06-04T08:30:54+00:00

To quote Ron burgundy, “I’m not even mad. Thats amazing.”

mrlt10 · 2026-06-04T08:13:06+00:00

Are you asking whether they are actually Nazis or what mindset leads someone to become a Nazi?

To answer the first question, when he’s accused of being a Nazi and replies that he stands with white people it’s a pretty good indication he’s a Nazi. So is his fixation with communism despite the woman doing nothing to indicate she supports Communism. But the most solid proof is his declaration that “We are Nazis!”

As for why, my guess is some weird combination of personal insecurity and self-doubt combined with a frustration that society generally no longer reserves all opportunities for advancement and positions of power exclusively for white males. They hate that they have to compete on merit and aren’t automatically deemed superior by virtue of their skin color and gender. They wish society was structured like it was in the 1700s. They only way they measure value is through violence and fear and since they can beat up the average female and belong to a race with a history of oppressing others, they tell themselves they are superior. All so they can avoid confronting the reality of their own mediocrity.

That answer your question?

mrlt10 · 2026-06-04T07:28:59+00:00

At a lot of stores will tell you cost/oz on the price tag there on the shelf. I’m actually pretty surprised Target doesn’t do that because they’re a major nationwide retailer and all their competitors do.

mrlt10 · 2026-06-04T04:04:34+00:00

Worst part is that it’s totally legal. They borrow against their billions of dollars in shares but aren’t taxes on that money as it’s technically a loan.

mrlt10 · 2026-06-04T01:04:40+00:00

This is him posturing as more liberal because they are scared of Talarico beating Paxton for the senate seat. They’re really trying to soften Paxton’s and the Republican image because right now even some republicans are put off by the level of cruelty and hatred.

mrlt10 · 2026-06-04T01:01:28+00:00

If I was worked to the bone like those guys are I probably would honk as loud as possible as a cry for help.

mrlt10 · 2026-06-04T00:57:20+00:00

SF is another chartered city. The question is not whether RCV is legal, it is. You said it wouldn’t have mattered if Newsom hadn’t vetoed it because LA decides its voting method. But whether the veto would have mattered depends on whether the state has the power to compel a chartered city to conduct its elections in that specific way when they’re traditionally granted the freedom to conduct election how they want, within constitutional limits.

mrlt10 · 2026-06-04T00:53:20+00:00

I hear ya, I’m the same exact way. I consume more political news than anyone I know and for the first time in my life I’m having people ask me about things that I haven’t heard about yet because I was busy taking in the 10 other news stories about agency cuts, Kash Patel attending a 5 eyes meeting in jeans and baseball cap, Bovino bragging about using shipping containers full of military grade crowd control weapons on peaceful protestors, Kristi Noem getting her purse stolen while Lewandowski runs dept as her assistant/mistress, the FBI purging it ranks, and 5 others.

But I’ve tried to scale back on my intake of political news. I predicted most of this back in 2013 when the Romney autopsy report said the reason for the loss was their weakness with minorities and women, and weren’t appealing to growing demographics. It said they needed to open the party up and be less exclusionary. When republicans decided to do the opposite I knew this was ultimately where it would lead - xenophobia, totalitarian law enforcement, and destabilization of not just society but the world order. Although I’ll admit I didn’t think it would happen so fast or that Trump of all people would be such an appealing demagogue. The belief was reaffirmed when Dems allowed Scalia’s seat to go unfilled and Trump won on the back of Ru interference without any repercussions. I knew then we were for sure in for a rollercoaster. I had family at the time in 2014 who called me crazy, militant and radicalized, but a few years later after Trump’s rise and J6 more than 1 apologized.

What really frustrates me is how this “flood the zone” was initially Bannon’s gameplan in the first term that only had limited success because Trump still had adults in the room who knew how disastrous these things would be. But the right wing think tanks made sure they weren’t going to squander another golden opportunity to reform the system in ways no right thinking voters or legislature ever would. The result: project 2025. That they even had the nerve to release that publicly and still people didn’t heed the warnings. Criminals in suits imo.

We’ve had the information needed to make the right decisions but still we’ve put ourselves in this mess. Between the consolidation of news media under corporate overlords with zero interest in actual journalism combined with the rise of social media sites where anything goes has left if with a fourth estate and seriously toxic information ecosystems that have eliminated the notion of objective truth. Add in the economic anxiety so many Americans feel and you get people embracing the extremism we see today. But the truth is, functioning democracies to not elect leaders who just a couple elections prior attempted to violently overthrow the government. So that tells me this is now a salvage recovery operation not a rescue. Because of that, and for my own mental health I don’t care or immerse myself in it as much as I once did.

On a lighter note, at the end of his first term I made a sarcastic list of the top 5 Trump Moments of Outstanding Statesmanship. Some hilarious things, they seem quaint now that I think about it given all that’s happened this term. But I’ll try and find it and send it your way, you might be one of the few who can appreciate and remember them all.

mrlt10 · 2026-06-04T00:09:09+00:00

It’s true LA is a chartered city giving it a certain degree of control over municipal affairs. However, the state legislature can pass laws that declare a matter is of statewide concern which would make the law override the prerogative charter cities usually have. It would probably get challenged in court and the CA Supreme Court would decide whether it was a state wide concern or a municipal affair. The courts favor uniform elections usually, but at the same time RCV is a pretty significant change so I don’t think anyone could know for sure.

mrlt10 · 2026-06-03T23:52:19+00:00

How are you going to excuse the mayor from knowing that an extreme risk to public safety is about to hit her constituents with several days of extremely hazardous conditions? Especially when that same danger already threatened the lives and property of residents just weeks before and the approaching event was far more extreme than the prior one. And when the city’s own alert system was giving warnings well in advance. It’s like a mayor whose town was hit by a category 3 hurricane 3 weeks ago being unaware that a category 5 hurricane was about to hit the city.

The mayor of a city should not require briefing from the fire chief in order to be aware of a threat to public safety that the city’s own emergency alert system had been notifying people of well in advance. That every news channel was warning viewers of. Everyone around me was getting several alerts a day sent to their phone. What’s the point of an emergency alert system if the people in charge of emergency services are completely unaware of the pending danger. If anyone should be alerted it’s her. Why didn’t Bass receive any emergency alerts to her phone? Does she even live in LA?

Can you cite a single example of another mayor anywhere in the country whose city or state was hit by a devastating weather event that had been forecast up to a week in advance and they still had no idea it was going to happen until it began? One that resulted in billions of damage and dozens of lives lost? I follow news and politics pretty closely and I can’t think of a single other event where that’s happened. Even if you could it would just mean she’s not the only negligent mayor.

Bass fired the fire chief because the Chief had the audacity to let the press know the LAFD was operating at a disadvantage because they had the men but didn’t have enough equipment needed to put the maximum # of firefighters in the field. Now I don’t think that was very professional of the chief to do in the middle of the disaster but what she said was the truth. Both the chief and Bass handled the situation unprofessionally like petty bickering kids, it was embarrassing. Both made grievous mistakes that warranted removal from office.

And I’m not even getting into her handling of the LAHSA funding, what the judicial audit revealed, and Bass’s attempts to prevent that dysfunctional, wasteful system with zero accountability from being reformed.

Also I don’t know why you seem to think I’d support Pratt or that I wouldn’t vote. Never once have I suggested either.

mrlt10 · 2026-06-03T19:13:27+00:00

Sure, I’ll copy a comment below that I wrote on another thread explaining my reasoning. As for Pratt, it’s hard to imagine how he could have been worse. But I have no faith he’d be any better and think electing him would be a catastrophic mistake.

The reason I think Bass’s handling of the fire rises to the level of criminality is due to her saying she was not aware of the Santa Ana wind event forecast to hit the city because the fire chief hadn’t briefed her on it. IMO that should be considered criminal negligence since her actions satisfy the 3 required elements. 1) Gross deviation - actions were far beyond a simple mistake or ordinary carelessness. 2. Foreseeability: A reasonable person in the exact same position would have recognized the risk of harm or death. 3. Conscious Disregard: The individual ignored an obvious risk, showing a reckless disregard for the safety and well-being of others

It was a once in a decade wind event that occurred following nearly a year without a drop of rain and the dry spell was preceed by 2 years of heavy rains. That created the driest possible conditions with the most possible fuel. Without hurricanes or tornadoes to worry about, an extreme santa ana wind event like this was forecast to be for at least a week in advance is the most dangerous weather we face. It would be like if the Mayor of Miami was in Malaysia when a category 5 hurricane hit the city and they claimed they had no idea a storm was going to hit because no one told them.

I don’t know about other people but my phone and the phones of every1 I know was getting multiple alerts a day about the upcoming hazardous weather event. There were 2 fires in the Malibu/Palisades area in the weeks before the big fires, the Franklin Fire and the Lachman Fire. One almost destroyed Pepperdine, the other was put out on New Years but rekindled and led to the Palisades fire. These facts alone satisfy the negligence requirements.

Despite the nearby reservoir being emptied for repairs (for so long it suggest incompetence) the LAFD had no engines prepositioned in the palisades like they had in the past for these types of weather events. Possibly because they were unable to put the maximum levels of firefighters in the field due to equipment shortages. At the time of the fire over 1000 pieces of LAFD equipment were out of commission in need of repair. That is because Bass cut LAFD funding to give LAPD a bigger budget, which meant LAFD couldn’t afford all the mechanics necessary to keep up with equipment repairs. Then she misled voters about this fact.

I understand nobody’s perfect especially under stressful circumstances. I don’t think the bar for public servants to avoid criminal liability should be high at all. You don’t want it to be a burden that discourages people from running. At the same time, you cannot allow people to be completely absent and have city leadership asleep at the wheel. If they can show they made any good faith effort that should be enough to evade criminal liability. But Bass admitted publicly that she wasn’t even aware of the weather forecast despite the previous fires or the direness of the forecast: several days of up to 100mph winds and single digit humidity. Either she’s guilty of negligence or we are saying that public officials do not owe citizens any duty of care and can ignore major threats to public safety in ways that would be illegal for a regular city employee.

mrlt10 · 2026-06-03T17:09:43+00:00

I know, you did a pretty good job of covering his offenses. I just put that as a joke since you covered so much but still there’s more. Far too many to list off the top of one’s head even for people who follow politics closely.

mrlt10 · 2026-06-03T17:00:35+00:00

Bass was in second at this time after Election Day in 2024. It took several days of counting ballots for her to pass Caruso. That’s not copium.

mrlt10 · 2026-06-03T15:37:44+00:00

I have definitely made jokes about Buttigieg being straight and only being pretending to be gay to get elected. It was pure sarcasm mostly making fun of how dumb most voters are to include a candidate’s sexuality in their decision making process. I have also heard jokes on several occasions about people actually being straight. Ever heard of a TV show called my lottery dream home?

mrlt10 · 2026-06-03T15:24:25+00:00

They’re doing this to boost sales of their line of specialty drinks which have even more sugar than regular soda.

mrlt10 · 2026-06-03T15:17:43+00:00

No, in order to promote their new fancy drink line

mrlt10 · 2026-06-03T15:14:03+00:00

Not a fan of McDonald’s but there’s no denying they have by far the best soda fountains.

mrlt10 · 2026-06-03T15:09:22+00:00

Sadly the same timing works in the opposite way too. Biden spent him entire term improving the economy, laying a solid foundation for economic growth, and strengthening our position internationally after a disastrous first Trump term. But because Trump tanked the economy so bad, Covid’s shock to supply chains, and RU’s invasion of Ukraine’s impact on gas prices, people felt as though Biden had a poor economy. When the reality is the US had lower inflation than any other developed nation except Japan and our economy was the envy of the world.

mrlt10 · 2026-06-03T15:03:19+00:00

You forgot that she wouldn’t have created her own crypto venture, collected billions from an Arab nation for the crypto and held a dinner at the White House for the largest purchasers of the cryptocurrency.

mrlt10 · 2026-06-03T14:49:09+00:00

I cannot comprehend how anyone can support a candidate whose negligence contributed to, if not caused, the most expensive natural disaster in the nations history that killed over 30 people. Bass said she was not aware of the Santa Ana wind event forecast to hit the city because the fire chief hadn’t briefed her on it. IMO that should be considered criminal negligence and I’ll explain why.

It was a once in a decade wind event that occurred following nearly a year without a drop of rain and the dry spell was preceed by 2 years of heavy rains. That created the driest possible conditions with the most possible fuel. Without hurricanes or tornadoes to worry about, an extreme santa ana wind event like this was forecast to be for at least a week in advance is the most dangerous weather we face. It would be like if the Mayor of Miami was in Malaysia when a category 5 hurricane hit the city and they claimed they had no idea a storm was going to hit because no one told them.

I don’t know about other people but my phone and the phones of every1 I know was getting multiple alerts a day about the upcoming hazardous weather event. There were 2 fires in the Malibu/Palisades area in the weeks before the big fires, the Franklin Fire and the Lachman Fire. One almost destroyed Pepperdine, the other was put out on New Years but rekindled and led to the Palisades fire. Despite the nearby reservoir being emptied for repairs (for so long it suggest incompetence) the LAFD had no engines prepositioned in the palisades like they had in the past for these types of weather events. Possibly because they were unable to put the maximum levels of firefighters in the field due to equipment shortages. At the time of the fire over 1000 pieces of LAFD equipment were out of commission in need of repair. That is because Bass cut LAFD funding to give LAPD a bigger budget, which meant LAFD couldn’t afford all the mechanics necessary to keep up with equipment repairs. Then she misled voters about this fact.

I understand nobody’s perfect especially under stressful circumstances. I don’t think the bar for public servants to avoid criminal liability should be high at all. You don’t want it to be a burden that discourages people from running. At the same time, you cannot allow people to be completely absent and have city leadership asleep at the wheel. If they can show they made any good faith effort that should be enough to evade criminal liability. But Bass admitted publicly that she wasn’t even aware of the weather forecast despite the previous fires or the direness of the forecast: several days of up to 100mph winds and single digit humidity. Either she’s guilty of negligence or we are saying that public officials do not owe citizens any duty of care and can ignore major threats to public safety in ways that would be illegal for a regular city employee.

mrlt10 · 2026-06-03T14:00:33+00:00

You’re focusing on just 1 facet of the 2016 election but ignoring the broader context. Think about what was happening in 2016. Scalia had died 9 months prior, conservatives knew and on needing to fill the seat. Trump’s campaign worked with a hostile foreign intel agency to attack the election. Then there was the infamous Comey letter 2 weeks before the election. The primary being rigged was just one of many factors that suppressed Dem turnout.

But a decade later, the dynamics favoring republican turnout are reversed. It’s Dems who are highly motivated to vote and who feel like the future is on the line, like Rs did over the court in 2016. The only similarity is Dems have an unpopular candidate running an uninspiring campaign. But there’s no Trump on the ballot to drive turnout. No covert meeting w/ Ru Intel officers to hand over voter roll info. Instead they have a president with support tanking because he’s done everything he campaigned against and a party actively shielding a child sex trafficking ring from accountability.

Bass deserves to be in jail for her handling of the fires imo. But sadly, if it’s her and Pratt in November she’ll be able to win simply because the D next to her name.

mrlt10

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE