| Brenda: I wonder when a hug became a thing of comfort? It probably started out as some sort of protection move. But then changed over time to mean something else. |
| THG: Americans not giving Trump’s tax plan 'two thumbs up' |
| THG: Was the assassination attempt on Donald Trump staged? |
| 6ixStringJack: Yeah, Ted. You're right. The assassination attempt on Trump was staged. Corey Comperatore died shielding his family from the fake bullet. |
| 6ixStringJack: That circus freak has been saying this every day since 2016. |
| THG: Was the assassination attempt on Donald Trump staged? |
6ixStringJack: David "The Cyclops" Pakman? Really, Ted?  |
| THG: Political analyst suggests remainder of Trump's term will be 'absolute disaster' |
| THG: Trump's blanket pardon plan has a loophole — and there's nothing he can do about it |
| 6ixStringJack: |
| second: Trump’s Truth Social posts are driving the news cycle — and raising alarms. From attacks on the pope and an AI image of himself as Jesus, the president’s posts have drawn unusually broad criticism. The most disturbing post came last week when he threatened to wipe out Iran, writing, “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”
Let’s not gloss over this. The president of the United States threatened genocide. And that is what passed as a normal Tuesday-morning update from the Trump White House: a warning of mass destruction and what international law would define as war crimes. [go to link]/ |
| second: The US is going to have to have a reckoning for its open embrace of war crimes. Trump boasted to Fox News, “We could take out every one of their bridges in one hour. We could take out every one of their power plants in one hour,” if he wanted. Destroying all power plants would cause massive civilian casualties of the kind Putin can only dream about. [go to link] |
| second: When the US and Israel are killing Iranian civilians at a higher rate that Vladimir Putin was killing Ukrainian civilians in 2025, that requires some serious acknowledgement and reflection. This casualty toll has hurt the one actual thing that might have made the campaign worthwhile—regime change. It must be hard for the Iranians to believe that the US actually wants to help them free themselves when civilians are being killed like this. [go to link] |
| second: At a minimum the US and Israel in six weeks have killed almost three times as many Iranian civilians in their long-range strike campaign as Russia has killed Ukrainian civilians in their long-range strike campaign in all of 2025. [go to link] |
| second: 6ixStringJack wrote: "Speaking of political theater, look at how Second is pretending that he's all religious." The Pope knows how a person's life is weighed. Pope Leo XIV said that Trump is unchristian. Standing on the official scales, Trump is obese and evil while JD Vance is both a lightweight and a fool to be claiming he is more Catholic than the Pope. |
| second: Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted.… The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
—Frederick Douglass, 1857 |
| second: The self-dealing during Trump I was, in fact, unprecedented in American history. Recall how lobbyists and foreign potentates booked pricey rooms in Trump’s Washington hotel? But under Trump II blatant corruption has run wild at the highest levels of government, on a scale like nobody has ever seen before. Trump and his family have used his office to extract billions in de facto graft, through crypto deals with petro-state autocrats, investments in prediction markets and defense contractors, making sweetheart foreign real estate deals that line up with favorable tariff treatment, soliciting hundreds of millions for Trump vanity projects. [go to link] |
| second: Want to shift America towards safe, clean renewable energy? Think again, because petrostate oligarchs have poured $500 million into Trump’s World Liberty coin. [go to link] |
| second: Want to rein in the pernicious effects of prediction markets. I don’t think so, because the Trump family invests in Polymarket. [go to link] |
| second: Want to regulate crypto and stop its use as a vehicle for crime? Well, um, no, because the Trump family has amassed billions from their crypto holdings. [go to link] |