Yeah, we literally planned on going to Nashville for four days in April, that’s on long-term postponement now. They asked for this by re-electing that fuck, now they can start owning it.
So has anyone seen the footage of Trump and Vance scolding Zelensky? Some people are saying that Trump and Couch-fucker are acting deplorable, while others are saying that they are just talking tough and telling it like it is. I'll let y'all draw your own conclusions: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9gy9wr7Ucw&pp=ygUVdHJ1bXAgemVsbGVuc2t5IHZhbmNl
They're acting like petulant morons. Full stop. Vance is all butthurt because Zelensky didn't say "thank you" enough, and Trump says "this will make good TV". Insane.
They are 2 pieces of coddled shit. I am glad that Zelensky didn't sign the deal as the deal is bullshit. You know what no one is asking? "Are there 500 billion dollars of minerals in Ukraine?" I work with mineral resources at the continental scale as well as policy. I have a map sitting in my office a group I work with put together of critical mineral resources in Europe. There aren't many known deposits of critical minerals in Ukraine. It just isn't the right terrain. The Soviets who were excellent geologists mapped it out well. And 500 billion is a fuck ton of money. I think people have lost sight of just how much that is since that dipshit Elon "has" 400 billion. Cerium oxide, the processed refined result of , one of the rare earths goes for 1600 USD a metric tonne right now. 500 billion worth is 312 million tonnes. The world produces about 290,000 tonnes of all rare earths each year. So essentially there is no way even if Ukraine had minerals to give to reach 500 billion any time soon and the deal was basically a way to fuck over Ukraine by giving them an offer they had no way to fulfill.
Zelenskyy's rollercoaster of facial expressions as Trump is actively sundowning and rambling about Shifty Schiff and Hunter Biden's bathroom is just *Chef's Kiss*
People who like Trump will watch that and say how clever he is. How slick. Slicker than cat shit, maybe. I watched a minute. A whole minute. I spent that time focusing on Z's face, which tried to be straight but failed.
I can only imagine how much that broadcast has further solidified the rest of Europe to no longer work with or trust the US.
It should have solidified the moment it became clear Trump would not only not be punished for inciting Jan6, but was allowed to run for office again. A single chance in hell of him being reelected, was one chance too many.
I realize my privilege with this comment but I'm at the "fuck it. Let it burn" stage right now. I want it bad enough to where even the most ardent Trump supporter has to say that Trump fucked up. Because right now, they're all still acting like he's Jesus Christ himself.
They won't, though. I work with such people - all of them Hispanic/ Latino, for the record* - and they will come up with, or parrot a reason why this ISN'T Trump's fault. They will go to their graves before they admit that they were duped. These are stubborn, machismo guys. Jungle Julia has a client who is an ardent Trump supporter; she's a mid '30s white woman who married a guy from a rich family, and she works a really cushy job for her husband's family's construction company. JJ and I are just DYING to hear what that bitch has to say about Trump's latest moves, ESPECIALLY if the economy tanks, and she can't afford all of her luxuries anymore. *I'm not saying that all stubborn people are Latino, we all know that every race has them. I'm just telling you what I have seen, in a workplace/ area where Latinos are the majority by a HUGE margin.
Narrator: "no... for real... AP was denied, but Russian state reporters were in the Oval Office. The US is Putin's little bitch." https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/media/tass-russian-state-media-oval-office/index.html
Thats not going to happen. That’s because, like believers in Jesus Christ, they are brainwashed into believing a fake thing. Three quarters of America believes that a virgin gave birth, I don’t think I need to explain how that does not work. Key word— brainwashed. Perhaps when he does, a lot of them will Jonestown themselves.
The wild thing is we have seen Trump let the world burn enough before that folks got sick of his shit and threw him out of office. But it took a fucking once in a century pandemic. How many people lost their jobs and/or died before the tide turned? How many people are going to need to die for people to realize he shouldn't be in power when a) he has taken a meat axe to the federal government and replaced it with loyalists who believe he didn't lose in 2020 and are willing to fuck shit up on his behalf and b) has the world's richest men and corporations bending the knee? Twitter, Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, plus countless other right wing grifters and liars are all now putting their thumbs on the scales for him. I'm a cynical sumbitch, but I don't see how we make it out of this without us unlocking a level of suffering most Americans haven't hit yet. 9/11, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, The Great Recession, the Pandemic. It feels like it's going to be worse than each of those. I'm betting this summer we see protests and state-sanctioned violence against those protestors. Think Kash Patel is going to respect the Constitutional rights of those folks? I think we're proper fucked and for a good long while. Even if Trump leaves in 2028...all these ideas and voters will still exist.
This country seems to default to republicans unless the Dems pic a perfect candidate. The dem tent is a lot less “rah rah go team” than the gop. It’s almost impossible to appeal to every voter when so many single interests dominate every faction of the electorate. If he/she supports Israel, I’m staying home. If he/she is insufficiently pro trans people, get fucked. If he/she is too liberal, I’m voting Republican. If my student loans don’t get forgiven, fuck you. There’s just too many fucking babies who only care about their one thing. Until people realize the real implications behind their vote or no-vote; the Supreme Court, human rights, women’s right to choose, possibly access to birth control?, right to marry who you want, respect on the world stage, not dying of preventable and eradicated diseases…I could go on but I’m tired. Instead, we’ve now ceded the government to a group who actually wants to straight up eliminate entire groups of people, cozy up to actual dictators, and ethnically cleanse the entire Gaza Strip and West Bank of all Palestinians. They fired every black person and woman who ran anything. Are literally trying to end access to modern medicine like vaccines and medical research. Can someone who actually supports Trump on this board actually point to one good thing that happened so far? Is letting a dipshit like Elon Musk make huge funding and policy decisions what you signed up for? Also, the dems need to be way more online. Right now, there is no competition to the current gop info sphere. All the podcasts and commentary that are listened to by young people are at minimum right-leaning. So much of the lefty commentary is focused on overeducated outrage and self righteous scolding. They need to actually appeal to real people and unfortunately, the right runs the board.
No they won’t. I know a lot of his supporters that, no matter what he says or does, they will not admit he’s wrong. We are well and truly fucked.