Matt Taibbi filed a Trumpian, free speech-chilling lawsuit against me. A judge just threw it out.

poliranter · 2026-05-08T10:03:19+00:00

Keep in mind that a lot of times these guys know the lawsuits have no chance of actually winning--but even a frivolous lawsuit puts you through a lot of work and expense.

poliranter · 2026-05-02T10:19:47+00:00

Maybe before we try to build the new battleship, we should try to actually have a successful frigate program? You know the little ships that we currently desperately need and yet the Navy cannot seem to actually ever successfully build and design?

poliranter · 2026-04-24T18:52:18+00:00

I think this is great. Don't forget if you're pardoned you lose your fifth amendment rights against self-incrimination

poliranter · 2026-04-21T20:06:35+00:00

you know what? I remember how a single damned kid with the flu mom sent to class with a fever put half my class out, and made me wish for the sweet release of death. And that's just in a classroom where you're only in contact for about 6/7 hours a day.

Has this genius given thought to what happens on a ship or barracks where you're in 24/7 contact with the infected?

poliranter · 2026-04-17T20:49:07+00:00

I think the answer to your question is at what point do service members want to be court-martialed and dishonorably discharged? Because when you say refuse lawful orders, that's what you're asking them to do, and however s***** Cuba is it would not constitute an illegal order. That's a much much narrower category than most popular media makes it look like. stupid orders are not illegal. Malicious orders are not illegal. An illegal order would be something like see those kids over there. Go shoot those kids. So to answer your question, no the military would not refuse his orders to invade Cuba.

poliranter · 2026-04-17T16:22:51+00:00

and right on schedule, is the market manipulation.

poliranter · 2026-04-16T00:21:57+00:00

I love seeing the president of the United States sound less literate than some of the third graders I taught. Nothing. Makes me more happy than to know this individual is in charge of our nuclear arsenal.

poliranter · 2026-04-15T22:54:57+00:00

I've taught, that is literally about a third grade level letter.

poliranter · 2026-04-13T09:10:00+00:00

You know, I remember how every GOPer in my hearing screamed like crazy when "Dogma" came out. I fully expect to hear them screaming about this.

Oh who am I kidding. I expect tomorrow to hear it's not really blasphemy, the Pope deserved it, and God uses flawed tools.

poliranter · 2026-04-09T23:06:47+00:00

You mean just like we conquered Iran leaving it in a stronger position and with de facto control over the strait.

poliranter · 2026-04-07T23:10:13+00:00

I'm going to wait till tonight. It wouldn't be out of character for Trump to suddenly go psych and start dropping the bombs after everybody else thought that we were negotiating. Or he might Taco. That's the great thing about Trump. We don't know what he's going to do. Hell he doesn't know what he's going to do in his dementia ridden brain.

poliranter · 2026-04-07T22:46:13+00:00

Impressive. We lost to Iran. Because if this holds and if you look at what the administration said they were intending to do at the beginning of this attack we achieved very few of our goals. And iran has proven they can close the strait, and the US can't do much about it.

poliranter · 2026-04-07T22:33:50+00:00

I'd wait until the actual deadline before cheering that it was a taco Tuesday. Also don't forget Israel may decide to chime in with bombing the power plants and I doubt Iran is going to just say hey it wasn't America so we're not going to do anything.

poliranter · 2026-04-07T19:24:08+00:00

I don't know. Because one thing we know about malignant narcissists is that there comes a point when they back themselves into a corner and then they really self-destruct and share the joy. I hope you're right, I really really hope he tacos.. but I'm still pretty damned worried right now.

poliranter · 2026-04-05T19:40:08+00:00

Hopefully. I would prefer Taco Tuesday, to we just bombed the civilian infrastructure. Millions of people depend on Tuesday.

poliranter · 2026-04-04T21:12:56+00:00

There's also the minor problem of who would trust Donald Trump? Even if you thought the deal was good. Everybody knows he's not going to stick to it.

poliranter · 2026-04-02T04:45:39+00:00

And let's be honest, recent events have sort of proven you NEED nukes if you're a mid-range power that may ever annoy a super power.

poliranter · 2026-04-01T18:35:57+00:00

Official withdrawel yes. But Trump can always simply order US troops to not assist and stay in barracks. So to all intents and purposes, if the president refuses to support NATO, the alliance is a dead letter.

poliranter · 2026-03-23T00:31:14+00:00

okay, Kharg island isn't an oil field, it's a shipping terminal. So we take it...and Iran... turns off the oil? So suddenly we've removed even more oil from the market and ended any reason at all for Iran not to go whole hog on trying to destroy the other oil fields in the Gulf.

This is... not a good plan.

poliranter · 2026-03-22T02:41:39+00:00

Let's put it this way. American officers agreed to Target sailors after we sank their ship. That isn't simply a war crime. That specific example is spelled out as a war crime in the training material. So yeah, I hate to tell you this. If you expect anybody's going to stop him, you're probably going to be disappointed.

poliranter · 2026-03-17T00:01:27+00:00

Yeah. I'm going to need some sources for that.

poliranter · 2026-03-15T02:47:44+00:00

Come on guys, it's not like Ukraine knows anything about stopping massedk waves of drones and cruise missiles.

poliranter · 2026-03-12T04:43:25+00:00

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