Epstein was holding parties for well-connected, powerful, wealthy and famous people all the time. And he was filming and photographing all the time too. He was doing that, while he was sex trafficking minors. Then we found out how lots of those wealthy powerful people were telling him secrets. We also know that Epstein had damaging photographs in his safe of those people.
If you don't understand what he was doing, you are clueless. He was OF COURSE working on huge blackmail schemes. It is highly unlikely that he was doing that by himself. Some random sex-criminal doesn't benefit from the British government's secrets, that he got from Prince Andrew. He was obviously working with intelligence agencies, either American, Israeli, Russian or all of them. That's why he got off with a slap on the hand, when he got caught the first time.

We know that after the Epsteins themselves, Trump is the #1 most-mentioned person in the Epstein files. That means that Epstein had TONS OF DIRT on Trump. They are obviously not releasing the rest of the Epstein files, because Trump all over it. However, when Epstein had it, that means that the intelligence agencies he worked with have it too. Now, why oh why is Trump doing everything that Netanyahu and Putin want him to do? They got him by the balls! He put them where he wasn't supposed to, and they have the evidence.

And here is Marjorie Taylor Greene explaining a big part of the issue:
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I have always been quick enough to cover up before I got caught, but once I did forget to hide my fathers nude magazines under his bed again, after I had shot cum all over myself on their bed and it took a while to clean myself up in the bathroom. My mother found them.
Porn wasn't as easily available back then, as it is today. One dirty book was a goldmine.

It cannot be explained at all. Religion is obviously based on the ideas and the knowledge of the people in the area and the times that the texts were written. In those texts, the god(s) are very much present and acting out. Religion has evolved to gods who are invisible and passive, to explain the fact that you cannot distinguish them from being non-existent. You have to make-belief, to make yourself believe.
They even added the threat of hell, if you don't. That's a scam, period.

It might be complicated, because it's science, but it is supported by mountains of evidence.

As soon as you have self replicating cells, with whatever primitive form of 'code' imaginable, evolution takes hold and works exactly as how it can be scientifically PROVEN in the lab. That doesn't require DNA, because viruses still use RNA as genetic material. Primitive life can use RNA and evolve to DNA later. Even before life emerged, RNA was already behaving like biological processes in cells today.
When RNA molecules gained the ability to replicate themselves, it was still not life as we know it, but it was already evolving. They are called 'Replicators'. There was molecular evolution, before there was biologic evolution. This can be demonstrated in the lab, to produce many of the exact molecules that life today is STILL dependent on.

If a God designed this, she has a strange sense of humor to make life that looks exactly like it is the result of 100% natural processes, that science finds everywhere in nature.

You think that a creator is easy to explain? Go ahead, try!
What you end up explaining is MAGIC, not anything you can show
to be real.

To someone without knowledge, science looks like magic.
It doesn't to me; I understand EVERY small step from basic elements created in stars, to humans walking around.

There are fossils for every step from an animal to a thinking human, because that only happened some millions of years ago. That is a blink of an eye compared with the evolution of 'bacteria in a mudhole' till today. What is a 'thinking' human? One who uses tools? Apes can do that. One who uses fire? That's only 2 million years ago. There is a 3500 million archive of fossils, and only in the latest few millions do they find those 'thinking humans'. Did God come back after 3500 million years to create them? And how about all those apes in between, who look more and more like those 'thinking humans'?

Do you see any of those Democrats becoming the vice president,
after calling themself a 'Never-Trumper' and calling Trump Hitler?

Point me to any Democrat who lost their dignity as much as Lindsey Graham.
Excluding John Fetterman, because he betrayed everything he ever said,
but that's the only Democrat who you respect, so you like fucking field rats.

Republicans are useless cucks, the way they gave away their power to Trump.
The House of Representatives should write legislation, and the Senate should review, amend, and pass it. They do almost none of that now, while they still have a majority, because Trump overrules them. Understand that everything that Trump does can be eliminated on day one by the next president. That hurts their cause. Republican politicians know that, but they do nothing, because they cannot go against the cult leader. They just parrot what they are told to say. No dignity at all.
The only few who say something are the ones who have already left.

Still, I agree with the idea that some Democrats are gutless bitches, because 7 of them voted for Trump's ICE budget. They probably do it, because most people are angry about what ICE is doing, which is the most important promise that Trump made. Supporting your opponent in the damage he is causing, is good strategy.
As long as there are still too many Americans who would vote for Republicans because of immigration, then more harm might be required. However, I think that it's a weak strategy. If you have balls, then you promote your principles and fight
for them, instead of letting your citizens suffer, to make them hate your opponents.

Immature people believe in invisible friends.

When I stopped believing in Santa, the even weaker claims about the existence of the Christian God seemed just as childish.

Christians always retreat to the claim 'a universe requires a creator' when pushed to defend their bullshit, but they always come back with
a God who demands belief to get accepted into heaven, and God coming to Earth as his son, being born from a virgin mother, getting horribly tortured and killed, as blood sacrifice to make himself forgive our 'original sin', then get resurrected, and then go back to heaven.

That's the 'Motte and Bailey Fallacy' in perfect execution. The 'motte'
is the creator of the universe, that science cannot disprove (yet),
but the 'bailey' is a stack of religious dogma bullshit, ten feet high.
It's impossible for me to believe that much nonsense.

Not true, there is evidence of people being born with variations as long as there is recorded history.
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Earliest Evidence: Ancient Mesopotamia (c. 3000–2000 BCE)

The gala (Sumer) and later galli (Akkadia, Greece, Rome) were priests devoted to goddesses such as Inanna/Ishtar and Cybele. These individuals were assigned male at birth but adopted feminine clothing, speech patterns, and social roles, and in some cases underwent ritual castration. Their existence is well‑documented in cuneiform texts and classical accounts, making them the oldest clearly recorded gender‑variant group in human history.
Even Earlier Archaeological Evidence (7000–2500 BCE)

While not tied to named individuals, archaeologists have found Neolithic and Bronze Age figurines from the Mediterranean that depict dual‑sex or third‑sex bodies—figures with both breasts and male genitalia, or with intentionally ambiguous sex characteristics. These artifacts suggest that gender variance was recognized symbolically thousands of years before written records.

Another early example is a burial near Prague (c. 2900–2500 BCE) in which a person genetically identified as male was interred in a traditionally female burial position and grave goods, which some archaeologists interpret as evidence of a third‑gender or transgender identity.
Other Early Recorded Gender‑Variant Groups

Several ancient cultures documented individuals who lived outside binary gender roles:

- Scythian enarei (c. 400 BCE): Androgynous priests described by Hippocrates and Herodotus as performing women’s work, speaking like women, and sometimes undergoing bodily modification.

- Two‑Spirit people in many Indigenous North American societies, whose traditions predate written records but were documented by early European observers.

- Hijra communities in South Asia, with evidence of third‑gender roles going back over 3,000 years.

These examples show that gender diversity is not a modern phenomenon but a longstanding part of human societies.

Kathoey — Thailand’s long‑standing third gender:

Kathoey (กะเทย is the Thai term often translated as “transgender woman,” “third gender,” or historically “ladyboy.” The concept predates modern Western ideas about gender by centuries.

Key points about the tradition:

- Historical presence: References to kathoey appear in Thai literature and folklore going back hundreds of years.

- Cultural role: Kathoey have traditionally been visible in entertainment, performance, and certain ceremonial roles, though social acceptance has varied over time.

- Not identical to Western categories: The term blends identity, gender expression, and sometimes sexuality in ways that don’t map perfectly onto modern LGBTQ+ terminology. Kathoey is a culturally specific gender category that blends identity, expression, and sexuality in ways Western LGBTQ+ terms keep separate.

Thai culture tends to see gender variation as part of the natural order. many Thais grow up seeing kathoey as simply one type of person who exists. Not a mistake, not a taboo, just part of the human landscape. This doesn’t mean universal acceptance, but it does mean visibility and familiarity.
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Pre‑modern Thailand didn’t use biological‑assignment language at all. Traditional Thai society did NOT categorize people using concepts like:
- “assigned female at birth”
- “assigned male at birth”
- “biological sex”
- “sex assigned at birth”

These are Western frameworks that grew out of:
- medicalization of sex (19th–20th century)
- feminist and queer theory (1970s–1990s)
- trans and intersex activism (1990s–2000s)

Thailand historically used social gender, not medical sex, as the primary category. People were understood by:
- how they lived
- how they dressed
- how they spoke
- their social role
- their relationships

Not by chromosomes or birth assignment.

So actually, they recognized people being born with variations for hundreds of years, while your 'Western framework' of sex is only RECENT.
Just another ignorant American, who thinks there was no history, before the few decades that he can remember.

His ideas about black holes are interesting, but the concept of spacetime and matter breaking down at such density is much more interesting relating to the early universe;
the early universe was much denser than a black hole, which means there was no real “beginning” of the universe in time, because at that density spacetime doesn't work.
That's his “No-Boundary Proposal”; it suggested that the universe, near the origin,
time could behave more like a spatial dimension. It's probably the reason for why
the universe behaved so much different than currently, in the early inflation period.

I know you FEEL that, because it's Trump, which makes you reject the TRUTH.

Like any of them ever would, or your government wound ever start taxing them for real.

You don't understand the difference between rich and wealthy, if you think winning the lottery is applicable.

In my country, the biggest lottery price is about 20 million or something. That's rich.
For wealthy people, that's pocket change. They can spend that every day and still
stay wealthy. You are clearly not understanding the scale of their wealth.

The problem with wealthy people is that they are disruptive to society, because they have too much power. Everyone is much poorer and has to work much harder,
because we are all supporting that bunch of leeches.

Don't think about what you or I would do, if we would have that money, because we never will. Look out for everyone else, instead of that tiny group. Modern civilization invented DEMOCRACY to protect the interests of everyone, instead of a tiny group
of people who are sick from greed. Democracy is wasted on people like you.
Trump is doing the opposite of the French revolution and throwing the commoners back into feudalism. And you're one of the rubes who support it. If I was the king of France, would I want to stay that wealthy and powerful? Yes, probably I would, but I AM NOT, so I think about the other 99.99% who I belong with. Why don't you?

Again? He's been trying really hard, but they didn't ban him for anything.
I'm very interested in what he said that finally crossed the line.
It must have been a doozy.

What truth?
Fauci did his best to protect the US against 'the wuhan virus', which was his JOB.
If there was a conspiracy, it was Trump and right-wing media causing over a million
dead Americans. It was clear that they understood the danger to American citizens,
but they ignored and denied it, for political reasons.

Trump himself has admitted doing that, and there is documented evidence of close interaction and broadly aligned messaging between the Trump administration and parts of right-leaning media during COVID-19, to deny the broad scientific consensus, resulting in harm to the American citizens. I would say that is textbook 'criminal conspiracy'.

YOU cannot define a "woman", without ignoring the definition of "female".
It's a circular definition.

'They' CAN define "woman", you just don't agree with 'them'.
You insist that a "woman" should be biological "female", without there existing
a 100% accurate definition of "female", and say people that disagree with you
can't define "woman", while they have a more consistent definition than you.

When a doctor assigns the sex of a baby at birth, they don't perform chromosome testing or an echocardiogram of internal sex organs. They just see a willy and say 'male' or see a pussy and say 'female'. This is only about 95% accurate.
It's even more inaccurate if you use the simple idea of 'male + female = baby'
as basis for the definitions of the sexes, because gay, lesbian and asexual people do not have the biology matching sexual attraction for that to happen "naturally".

This is the definition that most of 'them' can agree on: "A woman is someone who
is socially perceived and treated as a woman based on gender presentation and expression in a given context."

It's basically: "If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck."

It's ALSO circular, but it's more accurate. You are denying reality; that people exist who do not conform to a constricting idea that sex is 100% 'binary'. Biology is much more complex than that, but you choose to believe something that isn't true.
'They' have definitions that do include biological variations.
'They' understand the difference between 'sex' and 'gender', you deny reality.

Sex = biological traits, which are multidimensionally complex
Gender = identity and social meaning

Of course you will point to some some fringe minority, but people were talking
about "Democrats". The large majority of "Democrats" agree with the definition
that I provided. Probably not the exact one, but the broad idea behind it.
I can say "Republicans" are wrong, because most of them are very ignorant about the biology of the sexes and the widely accepted sociological concept of gender.

It's sad how much your primitive thinking is creating future historical regrets.
That is to say if humanity survives your primitive thinking.

Stephen Hawking did visit the private Caribbean island owned by Jeffrey Epstein in 2006.
He was there as part of a scientific conference on gravity and cosmology that Epstein funded. Several other well-known physicists also attended.
There are photos from that trip showing Hawking in his wheelchair on a beach, sometimes with assistants and other attendees nearby.

This is called a 'False equivalence'. It's also 'Whataboutism (tu quoque)' and 'Guilt by association'.

Are there photos of him having a good time with Epstein himself?
Are there claims that he committed crimes, in the files?
Are there victim accusations of him?
Does he appear in Epstein’s contact book and social network records?
Are there emails of him to Epstein showing they were in an ongoing relationship?
Is he on record speaking about Epstein in a familiar and friendly way?
Is he on record presenting knowledge about what Epstein was doing?
Did he send him a very personal birthday postcard with a drawing of a female nude?

You associated the man with wrongdoing on nothing at all, while you deny any wrongdoing of Trump, denying piles of evidence, credible testimony and many longstanding rumors that Trump was close with Epstein, aware of what he was doing, and involved with it.

Eh, they get really really wealthy?
And then they start buying everything.
And then everything you need and do enriches them further.
The time of the middle class is ending, and we are going back
to a system of the poor working for the wealthy elites.
Peasants once fought for their freedom and a decent quality of life
but now they give it back to the wealthy elites.

What happens when you stop taxing really rich people
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Are you supporting the criminalization of tobacco or alcohol?
You are SO incapable of learning from history.
And you don't give a shit about freedom either.

Meat and butter is damn BAD for you. Do you want to make that illegal?

Have you heard of democracy? A large majority of people want legal pot.

"Great Britain facilitated the creation of a Jewish national home, while managing intense conflict that led to the exile of Palestinian political leadership and the eventual mass displacement (Nakba) of over 750,000 Palestinians. British policy, shifting between promises to Zionists and Arabs, ultimately set the stage for Israel's establishment."

You just copy-paste this, and your brain doesn't even process it.
This clearly describes war crimes. Your lack of thinking is MAD!

How many 'armed groups' does Israel have?
Palestinians have the right to defend themselves too.

You are showing clearly how the land of the Palestinians has been stolen,
and your brain doesn't even process it. It's mad!

YOU CANNOT GIVE AWAY SOMEONE ELSE'S LAND!!!!

How about the next Democratic president gives away Wyoming to Ukrainians
who had to leave Crimea or the Donbas, when Russia stole it?

Did WW1 turn some of them into Muslims and others into Jews?

"Before WW1, the region we now call Israel/Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire. When that empire sided with Germany and lost the war, its territories were carved up by the victorious powers, especially Britain and France."

"Before World War I, the region of Palestine (then under the Ottoman Empire)
was religiously diverse, but with a clear majority-minority structure:
1. Islam (dominant majority)
The largest group was Muslim, mostly Sunni Muslims.
They made up roughly 85–90% of the population.
2. Christianity (significant minority)
Christians were a smaller but important minority, around 8–10%.
3. Judaism (small but historically rooted minority)
Jews made up about 3–5% of the population"

Nothing here that makes sense with your 1200BC nonsense.
Of course there were no Muslims in 1200BC, because that religion didn't exist yet,
but for most of history, Judaism was NOT the dominant religion across the Levant.

"After WW1, the League of Nations gave Britain control over Palestine through the British Mandate for Palestine. Britain was now responsible for implementing both Arab independence aspirations and the Jewish national home, an inherently contradictory task."

After World War II, Britain withdrew, and the United Nations proposed partition. In 1948, the state of Israel was declared, leading to war with neighboring Arab states and the displacement of many Palestinians, events still central to the conflict today.

The root cause of the problem is that Israel was allowed to declare itself a Jewish nation, while that area never was by majority Jewish. It was designed as an 'apartheid state', and Jews got away with it, because of world-wide guilt over the holocaust.
That wrong doesn't make their wrong right. Arab nations were right to be angry.

As a former important atheist, Maher should know better than to support the religious dominance of one religion in an area. He has always been a supporter of the separation of church and state. The whole problem of Israel is because it violated that, and he is too dumb to recognize it.
Since you hold him up as a supporter of your Israel ideology, do you also listen to his progressive positions on issues like drug policy, abortion rights, and separation of church and state?

Your justification is that Great Britain fabricated it?
Was that in 1200 BC? Damn, you are dumb.

Palestinians and Jews (at least some of them) ARE THE SAME PEOPLE.
It's just THEIR FUCKING STUPID RELIGIONS that divide them.

Fuck you stupid bitch.

In 1967, ISRAEL STARTED!!!

What led up to the war:
In May 1967, Gamal Abdel Nasser moved Egyptian troops into the Sinai Peninsula.
Egypt expelled UN peacekeepers who had been stationed between Egypt and Israel.
Egypt then closed the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping (Israel had previously said this would be considered an act of war).
Egypt, Jordan, and Syria formed military agreements, and rhetoric about confronting Israel intensified.

Who fired first:
On June 5, 1967, Israel launched a preemptive air strike against Egypt’s air force, destroying much of it on the ground.
This is generally considered the first major military action of the war, so in that narrow sense, Israel “started” the shooting.

Israel has been murdering Palestinians and stealing their houses and land for decades. They had walls around Gaza with snipers on guard towers killing children any time they felt like it. Then when it leads to a terrorist attack, to use it to do a complete genocide. When this leads to anger and action from Hezbollah, they use that to bomb citizens and steal land from Libanon.
They are fucking Nazi's!

Modern international law prohibits acquiring territory by force.
By international law, Israel is guilty of war crimes.

So did the Palestinians, dumbass.
Original Jews and Palestinians are genetically indistinguishable.
However, most Jews have mixed with European ancestry.
Meanwhile, Palestinians show much stronger genetic continuity
with ancient Levantine populations.
The religion moved in, not the people.

How many people OD on marijuana?
THC is less addictive than nicotine, alcohol, and opioids.
Cigarettes and alcohol are legal, so why not marijuana?
Opioids are needed for people in pain, that's why they are legal.
Marijuana has various medical uses as well. It helps many people.
When has imprisoning dope users ever helped to bankrupt dealers.
The US has the worst drugs problem in the world, because of your flawed thinking.

The first time Trump gets something right, you don't agree.

No, you are, by believing this nonsense.
They could have easily have had a nuke, if they had wanted to.
They stopped the development for years.

I don't really thinks so, but it's a popular conspiracy theory. It looks like there are more
ex-Trumpers than liberals and lefties who believe that there is something ongoing other than what is the official story. A full hoax is far-fetched to me, but Trump is sure acting unlike himself. He loves to praise himself in a nauseating way, taking credit for things
that are not true, but he has abandoned the only occurrence in which he looked brave
to everyone. He is incapable of that kind of humility, so I think he has something to hide.

Your political side has turned its followers into conspiracy thinkers.
This can turn against them when they are in power.
Also, there is lot of shit going on in this regime that cannot bear the light of day.

- At least half of the Epstein files being buried.
- Facts around Epstein's death not aligning with suicide.
- Trump's Indictments getting or attempted to be buried (why? there was no case, right?)
- Trump pardoning lots of white collar criminals who donate to him.
- Trump and his family getting fully into crypto scam companies.
- Very obvious insider trading going on, every time just before Trump announces something like tariffs or international aggression.
- Trump doing everything that Putin wants, like Putin owns him.
- Details around Charlie Kirk's assassination getting even more suspicious.

At some point even some of his most loyal followers cannot suppress this anymore.

My employer is training us regularly on phishing attempts.
They occasionally send simulations of phishing emails to everyone. If you then click on the "phishing alert" button, you get a message "Thanks for being vigilant and not being tricked by our phishing simulation.".

I agree that it would be safer, but it would be damn annoying if you had to use Authenticator every time you wanted to check WhatsApp.

Still, it should support a blocking and recovery option in case of a scam or hack.
We sent 2 emails to support@whatsapp.com 2 days ago, and they have not reacted yet.

Ex-Donald Trump backer clarifies Butler assassination hoax stance: ‘A lot questions’
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Indeed a lot doesn't make sense. I would not say that this ex-trumper is much useful to question this event, but with the help of ChatGPT, I came up with a list that it accumulated from reputable investigative journalism sources, and is verifiably based on Official / primary law enforcement sources.


🧾 Legitimate confirmed issues (Butler incident)

* Shooter gained access to a rooftop within effective firing range of the rally
* Perimeter security did not fully prevent high-elevation vantage point access
* Threat was not identified and neutralized before the first shot was fired
* Delays occurred in detection, escalation, and response to the shooter
* Coordination issues existed between Secret Service and local law enforcement elements
* Breakdown in real-time communication and situational awareness across security teams
* Post-incident reviews identified a cascade of preventable security failures
* Accountability actions were limited and became a subject of official and congressional criticism


If we compare the aftermath of the assassination attempt on Trump with the 1981 Reagan assassination attempt, there are very significant differences:

* Immediate response: Shooter was caught on the spot; no ambiguity about what happened
* Unified investigation: FBI + Secret Service acted immediately with a clear suspect and clear facts
* Clear accountability: Led to formal internal review and major long-term security reforms
* No competing narratives: Public understanding of the event stabilized quickly


Even among Trump’s own supporters, there has been visible skepticism and calls for further investigation into the Butler assassination attempt, while Trump himself has not kept it as a sustained political focus and has at times signaled that the issue should not be dwelled on.

This stands out because Trump’s political communication style has typically emphasized:
* repeatedly amplifying events that reinforce his political narrative
* keeping high-salience incidents in the public conversation for extended periods
* using major events as long-term rhetorical leverage

In that context, the relatively limited ongoing emphasis on this incident is not typical of his usual communication pattern, where major events involving him tend to be politically extended rather than deprioritized.

Please stop with that nonsense; no regime ever wanted to commit suicide.
Powerful people send gullible people to die for them, even the most extreme Islamists. That's what religion is intended for. It's time you learn that.

Religious leaders use religion to STAY IN POWER.
Being vaporized doesn't help them do that.
Even if they hide in a bunker, there is nothing left after to stay in power over.

Look at the amount of lies that you gaslight yourself into believing
to keep supporting a conman who is going against everything he promised.

Funny, but the US has been dropped bombs costing ~$50 billion so far
and they're not back in the stone age yet.

~$50 Billion is 2.5 years of Universal Childcare (Build Back Better).
But bombing people in other countries is more 'America first', right?

True, all those applications are a major security and privacy risk.

However, WhatsApp has turned into a vital communication tool for many people.
Personally, I use my phone as a phone at maximum once per month, and the rest
of the time it's a WhatsApp, email, banking and trading and navigation device.

WhatsApp is just too damn vulnerable to these simple scams, they offer no secure procedure to restore an account on another device when it has been scammed,
and their 'service' is very slow to respond.

Why are we trusting these big companies, who only think about their bottom line,
to handle vital communication tools? They should at least be controlled more.
Regulation is important. If they won't make it secure, they should lose it.
(I'm not saying directly controlled by the government, but handled like most vital utilities are handled, in the common sense part of the modern world.)

Sure, if Trump can get rid of that horrible regime, I'll applaud it.

It was Bush who attacked Iraq over lies, not Obama and Hillary.
It was also Obama who finally found and killed Bin Laden.
If you don't know that you're lying, your completely messed up.

Why do you want Iran to have a constitutional democracy, while Trump is destroying yours?

I see Trump threatening to bomb bridges and power-plants. Not only is that a war crime, because that's attacking CITIZENS, it will NOT stabilize Iran for it's citizens,
it will return their country to the stone age. How do you expect a stone age country
to create a constitutional democracy?

It's all nonsense, because this war is NOT about freeing the people of Iran,
this is ONLY intended to rid Israel of their enemy, so they can conquer all the land that they think of as the promised land.

It's definitely not COMMON sense, because most people in the world hate him
and in your country his ratings are historically weak for a modern president at this stage.

It's a cult. Your love for the man is unconditional, and that's STUPID.
That's you not understanding democracy. You're supposed to be critical
of all your elected representatives.

If the 'one's with common sense love him', why didn't he get them then?
I'll answer it; because he likes people who don't have any principles.

They're very consistent in having no principles, besides their own money and power.

Taking a oath doesn't guarantee that he does it. Trump has disrespected his oath in many ways. His administration is checking off all amendments to violate one by one or all at the same time.

Interesting story: During his second oath on January 20, 2025, he did not place his hand on the Bible. Personally, I don't care, because Christians are lying their pants off just as easily, but it seems like there is some part of Trump who believes in some form of god. If he didn't care, he wouldn't talk about probably not getting into heaven. That makes it a red flag to me, when a person like that doesn't swear ON the bible. He might be thinking that breaking that oath would send him to hell for sure. He's very much aware that he is breaking his oath.

I'm guessing you are referring to Clinton not asking approval from Congress. True, he didn't, but the scale of Kosovo (1999) was far less than Iran now. He was not attacking a country and the operation was decided collectively by NATO members.
Haiti cannot be called a 'war' by any stretch of the imagination.
And the UN Security Council authorized the intervention.
Iraq was just a continuation of what Bush before him started.
At least Bush had Formal congressional authorization. Clinton relied on earlier Gulf War authorization + UN resolutions. It was also just limited air/missile strikes, not a new war.
Nothing that Clinton did was anything close to what Trump started.
And he didn't run on NOT DOING EXACTLY THAT.

Russia has been an actual nuclear threat for decades. It never resulted in nuclear war, because that would be suicide. Every action of Iran in the past decades shows that they prioritize self preservation in the exact same way.

Trump is NOT doing his job. He is going against everything he promised. Even on 'the illegals' he is failing. The people he is deporting are mostly not the illegals that he was talking about. Where are those 20 million criminals and rapists? At best he deported ~700,000 immigrants and most of them were never arrested for any violent offense. Most of them were in the immigration process and most of them were working and paying taxes and getting nothing back. You might think that's a succes, but he has passed NO IMMIGRATION REFORM LAWS. When he was running for president, he had his cronies block the BIPARTISAN immigration bill, and since then he has done NOTHING to come up with something better. Doing his job also means making sure Congress is doing their job, but under Trump they have been pretty damn useless. Both Obama and Biden had a higher success-rate, while having much more resistance in Congress.
Understand that all Trump's executive orders can be eliminated with a stoke of the pen, by the next president. That means that Trump is NOT doing what you elected him for. It makes me happy that he and his regime are so damn incompetent, but it should annoy you.

No country in Europe is still interested to listen to Israel, because
we all see who the worst aggressor in the region is; they are.
They are just in it to take more land.

He is ACTING like a king. He had the Supreme Court make him immune, and he is doing everything he wants with Executive powers, while a spineless minute majority in Congress is letting him do it.

It's the job of Congress to legislate, and it's the job of Congress
to declare war, because Congress should represent the people,
not the president. At least not in your Constitutional democracy.

When you are saying:
"Are the "people" really smart enough to know what is best for them?",
that's you supporting a dictatorship, over democracy.

Here is an important tip to avoid falling for a common scam.
(One of our friends just got scammed, and I'm trying to help)

Someone will call you on your mobile phone, to invite you to a Zoom call.
If they already have information from you, it could sound believable.
Then they say: "I have just sent you a code for the Zoom call, can you repeat it?"
Than they can get into your WhatsApp, because it is the verification SMS-code
for WhatsApp.

Then they will send everyone you know scam calls asking for money, or something.
And they have all the phone numbers of your contacts, to try the scam on them too.

It took me an hour of 'interrogation', to figure out that she gave that SMS-code
to the scammer. With the help of ChatGPT, I figured out the rest.
The only thing I could do is email WhatsApp support to block the account.
The scammers will block the SMS-verification, by trying it over and over.
Maybe she gets one chance to get it back, 12 hours from last tried.
She is now calling everyone she knows to warn them, to not trust her messages.
It's hours of your life that you can't get back.

Poor little Pluto. I admit, this hurt me too.

In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) created a formal definition.
A planet must:
1) Orbit the Sun
2) Be spherical due to its own gravity
3) Have “cleared its orbital neighborhood” (meaning it dominates its orbit gravitationally)

Pluto meets the first two criteria, but not the third. It shares its orbital region with many other Kuiper Belt objects and doesn’t gravitationally dominate its neighborhood.

So Pluto was reclassified as a 'dwarf planet', along with objects like Eris.
I would say that this only strengthens it's 'Disney status'.

That was Henry VIII, but he was actually King of England, not France.
Please do, because ignorance about the past results in people who make history repeat itself.

"Are the "people" really smart enough to know what is best for them?"
You're arguing against the foundational statement of American ideals.
Remember when Republican wrapped themselves in the United States Declaration of Independence and The United States Constitution?
You are now using it as toilet paper.

And then you are aggrieved when millions of TRUE AMERICANS
have NO KINGS protests.

Obviously not, because you are still supporting King Louis XVI.

Now who does story about the golden eggs remind me of?
People who enjoyed liberal democracy, with a sprinkle of socialism,
but then let Republicans replace it with plutocracy?

In a democracy, the people decide who benefits from robot technology.

They will either starve, or they will learn that billionaires were not elected
to rule the people.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed… with certain unalienable Rights…
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,
deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

Look at history of the type of 'reset' that resulted from that.
I suggest you look at France, around 1794.
Do you pick the side of King Louis XVI or of the people?

“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it…”

No dumb-ass, people are NOT too lazy to work, they just want to be DECENTLY PAID for their work, so they can LIVE on their income.

How will the world be saved from robots putting people out of work?
Where will people get the money to LIVE?

In your bottom paragraph you exactly showed the problem; double profits for companies, nothing for workers. Don't you understand why that is a problem? Maybe you understand it this way: who is going to buy the products of those companies, if PEOPLE are replaced by robots?

Iran had a GDP of about $430 billion and a debt of about 30–40% of GDP.
They don't need investors to get oil out of the ground.

Here is another story about what Trump's admin is doing when you're distracted
with all the horrible shit they are doing and causing:
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Not only is Trump using the DOJ as his personal guard dog and and attack dog,
his administration is destroying it's actual purpose; defending the public interest by:
- Enforcing laws
- Protecting civil rights
- Prosecuting crimes

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It's just one of the many things to consider when you VOTE.
If you want peace and stability in the world, you vote for
representatives who care about how corporations treat people.

An oil field shouldn't just giving some money to their employees.
It's the natural resource of that country, and therefore it should greatly benefit
the people of that country, instead of the billionaires of some foreign country.

Why do you care that American farms are owned by Americans, and not China?
Same thing! One difference; the US used force to try to fully exploit Iran,
while China is just buying up what your own system sells them.
That's your own ideology turning against you.

Either you support greedy capitalism, which means that you shouldn't care when China buys your farms. And why China? They own only 1% of that foreign owned land. Canada owns 33% of it. Here is the list:
Canada – by far the largest (~33% of all foreign-held land)
Netherlands – second largest (~10–12%)
Italy – around 6–7%
United Kingdom – about 5–6%
Germany – about 5–6%
So why are you only worried when it's China?

When American farms go bankrupt, someone buys up the property.
Buyers can include several groups:
- Nearby farmers
- Individual investors (like Bill Gates)
- Institutional investors (Private Equity, multiple Bill Gates)
- Agricultural companies
- Foreign investors
If you only want family farmers to own farmland, you are NOT a 'capitalist'.

If you do think that capitalism hurts people you care about, why don't you extend that insight to the rest of the world? People getting hurt in other countries will always have an effect that comes back to hurt you. Iran is just one of the many examples. Another is immigrants; when capitalism hurts whole groups of people, they are not going to passively suffer their exploitation. Many of them will find a better place to live. I would say that they are justified to go to the place where the benefits of their former exploitation ends up.
The exploitation doesn't end up with YOU, because you are just Working Class who is exploited too, but that's the result of your Owner Class. You care about illegals, but the Owner Class don't. For them they are cheap labor. When they prop up Trump, they know he's not going to take their cheap labor away, because IF it's not illegals, they will just make the American people as cheap as they want. Haven't you noticed?

Apparently, American people are NOT cheap enough, so they make robots.
The American people will need to become very cheap to compete with robots.

This is how capitalism works; it definitely creates prosperity, but it always does it at the cost of others, because it's exploitative by design. The benefits always mostly flow to the top, and it always leave the rest with losses and damage.
It is a scourge on humanity and nature. Humanity either choses to improve on capitalism, or it WILL destroy humanity.

I meant you are OK with exploitation, not slavery.
However, there is something very similar to slavery nowadays,
like the children working in cobalt mines. You were OK with that.
You whitewashed that as them having a job, which is better than starving.
The same can be said about slaves, because everything is better than starving. That's how you sugar-coat slavery and horrible exploitation.

Your feelings about the matter isn't representative.
When a corporation is making billions of dollars in profit, while all their employees are struggling to survive, that's exploitation.

I would know better, if you had ever supported people having rights.
If you think that there is no such thing, than all exploitation, including slavery, is OK.

If you understand their thought process, which you said now twice, please describe their thought process.

I don't feel exploited on my job. That's mostly because I have a good education and I live in The Netherlands. People with poor educations
are exploited in my country too. I do feel my employer exploits people, but that's mostly related to pharmaceutical companies making too much profit on healthcare.

Sugar-coating is exactly what you are doing.
"the thought process's of the time slavery was in place" was simple:
"We can exploit people for our own profit, so let's do that!".
You are OK with it from that period, because you are OK with it now.

You are very consistent in the opinion that people have no rights and their value is only in how much they serve the powerful and wealthy elites.
I will never understand WHY you have this opinion, other than you were born into it and you have listened to people who tell you this all your life.

Have you seen JD Vance lately? This is what he was doing in the shadows;

Pushing a case called "National Republican Senatorial Committee v. FEC." towards
the U.S. Supreme Court.

It is designed to eliminate the last Federal limits on “coordinated spending” between political parties and candidates.

Why these limits exist: To stop donors from bypassing individual donation caps by routing money through political parties.

It would basically make RANK CORRUPTION EVEN EASIER!

Even mainstream outlets like Reuters say this case would weaken campaign finance limits, and legal arguments warn it lets wealthy donors route money through parties to get around caps, making dark money influence even harder to control.
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Answer me this: If Republicans think corruption is a problem, why is JD Vance pushing
to remove one of the LAST LIMITS on coordinated political money?

Why isn't Fox'News' shouting: "Why is JD Vance helping George Soros ?!?"

Trump's admin HATED HIM before they were chosen
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A bunch of spineless cowards choosing money over principles.

'Them' have not all committed terrorism against you.
I keep trying to make you understand how YOUR OWN ACTIONS
have resulted in so much hate that people commit suicide to kill you.
Mostly, so you stop supporting those same mistakes again and again.

OMG! THE US IS STEALING THEIR OIL!!! Are you gaslighting or actually this ignorant?
The only people who are paid handsomely are the dictator friends of the US.
The people of those countries are living in horrible poverty.
The US has toppled leaders who shared some of the oil profit,
and propped up dictators who control their people with violence and religion.
Behind your back, those dictators are BLAMING YOU for their poverty.
Everything happening in that regions WAS CAUSED BY THE US (and Israel).

The US would have the right to fix your own problem, but you don't; everything you have been doing is making the hate breeding ground even more fertile. The people of Iran asked you to topple their government, because it is legitimately evil.
Have you done that? NO!!! The same evil regime is still in power. You have killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and left it in the hands of son Mojtaba Khamenei,
WHO IS WORSE!!

Meanwhile, you have killed a school full of children and bombed large parts of Tehran. What do the Iranian people think of your president, when he has threatened to blow up all the bridges and says: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.”?
Do you think they trust the US more now?

You have left them with a worse dictator, who will probably have to defend
his power from adversaries with lots of violence, lots of dead loved ones,
and a country in economic stress. They will only be worse off, AND THEY WILL OBVIOUSLY BLAME THE US FOR ALL OF THAT.

Russia already tried that. Didn't you know?
Their actions, combined with the actions of the US, resulted in that Islamist terrorism. Before that, it was just civil war, religious wars, political conflicts and conflicts over territory, just like everywhere else in the world.

Besides the nonsense idea that Islam will result in terrorism by necessity,
the complete lack of morality of you suggesting to subjugate the whole of the
Middle East, is stunning. What makes you think you have the right?

Then there is the complete lack of practical thinking. If you add up the land area of countries where Islam is the dominant religion (North Africa, the Middle East, parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, and much of Central & Southeast Asia), you get roughly 30–35 million kmІ. That's about 3 to 3.5 times the land area of the U.S (~9.8 million kmІ).
Globally, there are about 1.9 to 2.0 billion Muslims today. How do you suggest the US keeps them all under control? They outnumber you 6 to 1.

You have a real strange idea about liberals? No one thinks what you are saying. It just takes a right-wing brain to think that you can improve how they feel about you, by bombing their families to death and putting their countries in utter chaos. Living under tyranny isn't fun (although some of you seem to think it's great), but it's better than chaos. Every time your country tries to wage war on terror, you are creating the exact breeding ground for it. You eliminate the little stability they have, and make the people who lost their loved ones hate you.
You ridicule the lack of solutions from liberals, but at least liberals and lefties don't make the problems so much bigger, like your side does.

It also costs a fuck ton of money; Trump has recently proposed a U.S. defense budget of about $1.5 trillion per year, which is roughly a 40–50% increase over the current budget. When is someone asking: "How are you going to pay for that?"?