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  1. Are you going to choose to live the rest of your life as such a broken-brained bitch that small potato shit like NYC housing policy, proposed by a scary Mooslim, allows you to turn a blind eye to the greatest threat to American democracy in our lifetimes? Have you no sense of the fundamentals? Like right versus wrong? Good versus evil? Oh, no! These minorities want to raise taxes on rich white people. Hell, I don't know if any of the race or religion shit bugs you, but what the ever-loving fuck? We have an aspiring dictator right now, tearing at the fabric, the very soul of this country, STEALING billions from our treasury. We have a lifelong conman and convicted felon who's spent every fucking second of his 79 years on this planet fucking people over. And now he wants to fucking steal other countries. And you want to bitch about subsidized housing or something? What in the ever fucking fuck is wrong with you? What the hell happened to you? Did someone hurt you as a child, or have you always been a complete shell of a man? For the sake of your eternal soul, reflect on what your fear, hatred, or whatever it is that's poisoning your mind and allowing you to think that he is the answer to your pain. Good lord, man. Fucking repent and renounce this demon that's been unleashed into this world.
  2. Yeah, I noticed that, too. Jamaica, Haiti, the Bahamas. I wonder what they have in common.
  3. Dammit, guys. I'm really sorry, but I just had to try it. Presenting Emperor Ignatius J. Palpatine. It's awful. Don't open the spoiler. Go ahead and neg me. I deserve it.
  4. So, I know most of us with half a brain already knew this shit, but just wanted to put this quote out there for any brain-addled lemmings and lurkers perusing this thread: DO YOU FUCKING IDIOTS NOT GET IT? This is « l'état, c'est moi » bullshit. It doesn't matter what I said yesterday; this is what I want today. Oh, I told you to believe that a while back, but I've changed my mind, so now you have to change your mind to suit my interests. @Incredulity Are you still incredulous about his intentions? You voted in a capricious tyrant who wants to be an absolute monarch. But some of you, like that weird cocksucker, @Macklemore, actually want to have a gotdam king. It's fucking Orwellian, but somehow fucking dumber, like Ignatius J. Reilly playing Palpatine or some shit.
  5. bolverk replied to Zavala's topic in Daily Texan
    US military is 'always an option' for Trump to acquire Greenland, White House official says The military is among a "range of options" being considering, Leavitt said. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-military-option-acquiring-greenland-white-house-official/story?id=128960041 The White House said Tuesday President Donald Trump and his advisers are discussing a range of options to acquire Greenland — adding "utilizing the U.S. military is always an option." "President Trump has made it well known that acquiring Greenland is a national security priority of the United States, and it’s vital to deter our adversaries in the Arctic region," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said. "The President and his team are discussing a range of options to pursue this important foreign policy goal, and of course, utilizing the U.S. Military is always an option at the Commander in Chief’s disposal." This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
  6. Edit: This probably should've gone in the Greenland thread instead, but it's still relevant here, I guess. Click through for a thread on this one from December 2024, recalling that Jack Posobiec runs the End Wokeness account:
  7. Oh, I agree. Both Noriega and Maduro were asshole dictators, but at least the US tried to put up some pretense of a legal basis for Panama. It was still the US swinging it's big dick around. csb: I was a teenage exchange student living with a family in France when the Panamanian invasion took place. One evening, I came downstairs, and my host parents were watching news coverage of it. They turned around when I walked into the room and asked me why America invaded. Everyone in Europe at the time was basically paying zero attention to whatever was going on in Latin America, seeing as the Berlin Wall had just crumbled only a month before. The news had been all about the Iron Curtain falling, so I was hard-pressed to come up with an answer because I’d only vaguely remembered hearing bad stuff about him before heading off to Europe. So I just stared at them dumbly for a moment and said, "We don't like him." Of course, looking back at that moment, I must've sounded like the most arrogant American asshole of all time and am still ashamed of it, but within a week, I'd grabbed a copy of Time down at the newstand and tried to get caught up so we could have some semblance of a discussion, though I still couldn't adequately explain it or defend it. /csb Anyway, this has a good discussion about some of the legal differences between the captures of Noriega and Maduro as food for thought. https://brendonbeebe.substack.com/p/comparison-of-us-capture-of-nicolas
  8. That's about 20% of the average salary in Texas--essentially a new 10% tax on your earnings if you were self-employed, just lost your subsidies, and saw it double. As of Dec 25, the average annual salary in Texas is $52,885. Just in case you need a simple salary calculator, that works out to be approximately 25.43 an hour. This is equivalent of 1,017.02 a week or 4,407.08 a month. Most salaries in Texas range between 36,856.00 (25th percentile) to 67,074.00 (75th percentile) annually. https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/--in-Texas
  9. It's been three years now, but I think her policy was some ridiculously low amount like that, too.
  10. That was a saving grace when my mom got terminal cancer and paid for her hospice care.
  11. I'm amazed to see how many dick-riding clowns with their anti-police agenda we have on this site. Otherwise, they'd be chiming in with outrage over the refusal to install a plaque honoring the Capitol police who fought off the traitorous mob that attacked our democracy five years ago today. I mean, they must really fucking hate cops if they'll put up with dishonoring the five dead cops, not to the 140+ other peace officers who were injured (some gravely), as a result of that day's violent insurrection. Right, @PvilleStang?
  12. I didn't realize the regime had deleted its database of January 6 cases after pardoning the traitors. This, along with refusing to post a plaque in the Capitol, is an attempt to memoryhole the whole fucking thing. Fortunately, NPR, with the assistance of other media, created an archive to preserve evidence for the historical record. https://apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/ https://apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/database.html Screenshot of what it looks like, highlighting certain Texas traitors.
  13. Reminder: some people made a profit from the attack on our nation's Capitol. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/january-6-money-fancelli-wren/
  14. Pretty sure you could also color in Mexico with orange, given previous statements about going in to fight cartels, though the threat hasn't been explicitly directed at the Mexican government as far as I know. Maybe a fifth color should've been chosen for that type of invasion.
  15. Yup. How the ‘Donroe Doctrine’ Reinforces Xi’s Vision of Power in Asia The U.S. assault on Venezuela points to a world where big powers seek to call the shots in their regions, an idea Beijing knows well. Just hours before American commandos seized President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela in a daring raid, a senior Chinese official had met the Venezuelan leader at the presidential palace, a show of support for one of Beijing’s closest partners in the Western Hemisphere. The speed with which U.S. forces acted afterward to capture Mr. Maduro sent a blunt message to Beijing about the limits of its influence in a region that Washington treats as its own. China now risks losing ground in Venezuela after Saturday’s assault in Caracas, despite decades of investment and billions of dollars in loans. But the assault also reinforces a broader logic that ultimately favors President Xi Jinping’s vision of China and its status in Asia: when powerful countries impose their will close to home, others tend to step back. The White House has framed the Maduro operation as part of an updated Monroe Doctrine, or as President Trump describes it, the “Donroe Doctrine.” A globe carved into spheres of influence — with the United States dominating the Western Hemisphere and China asserting primacy across the Asia-Pacific — and where might makes right, regardless of shared rules, could benefit Beijing in a number of ways. Stephen Miller, a top aide to Mr. Trump, articulated this doctrine in an interview with the CNN host Jake Tapper on Monday. “We live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he said. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.” It could keep the United States and the brunt of its military forces away from Asia. And it could undercut Washington’s criticism of Beijing when Chinese forces elbow their way across contested waters of the South China Sea and menace Taiwan, the island democracy China claims as its own. The assault on Caracas “does further erode the norms against great power use of force that have steadily weakened in the last two decades, which works just fine for Beijing,” said Rush Doshi, a China expert at Georgetown University and the Council on Foreign Relations. “More important, if it distracts the United States by tying us up in Venezuela, all the better for Beijing too.” Beijing has long railed against what it calls America’s strategy of containing China, which includes stationing troops in Japan and South Korea, and deploying U.S. naval ships in the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea. And it has criticized Washington’s moves to deepen security ties with India and help Australia develop nuclear-powered submarines. Mr. Xi has depicted China as a reliable and powerful pillar in the region, in contrast to the United States, as he sought to court neighbors to his side in a trade war with President Trump. In a speech at a high-level Communist Party conference on regional diplomacy, Mr. Xi called for the region to be governed by “Asian values,” Asian supply chains and an Asian security model where countries shared “weal and woe.” On Monday, Mr. Xi once again appeared to underscore the contrast between the Trump administration’s assault and China’s “neighborhood diplomacy” in a meeting with President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea in Beijing. Mr. Xi, casting China as a benevolent major power, said Beijing and Seoul were able to achieve “harmony without uniformity” by “resolving differences through dialogue and consultation.” In fact, China has not hesitated to use its massive economic power for coercion and its ample modern military to intimidate its neighbors. Just last week, China fired more than two dozen long-range rockets into waters around Taiwan and surrounded the island with bombers, fighter jets and warships in a two-day show of force aimed at intimidating the island’s leadership. China has also punished Japan economically for showing support for Taiwan. None of this means Beijing is calibrating its approach to Taiwan based on events in Venezuela. Chinese leaders have long treated the island as a domestic issue to be resolved on their own terms, independent of U.S. actions elsewhere. China has sometimes been explicit about how it sees its power in its own neighborhood. At a meeting with Southeast Asian officials in 2010 over the South China Sea, China’s then-foreign minister, Yang Jiechi, said: “China is a big country and other countries are small countries, and that’s just a fact.” That blunt view of power helps explain both China’s confidence in Asia and its vulnerability farther afield, as Venezuela has made clear. China will not easily give up on Latin America, a region where Beijing has been expanding its economic and political influence for years, buying soybeans and minerals and investing in ports, telecommunications networks and space infrastructure. It has aligned itself with Brazil, Colombia and, of course, Venezuela, in being willing to stand up to Washington’s bullying. Led by socialist strongmen who dared to defy the United States, Venezuela shared an ideological kinship with China’s communist leaders. The South American nation has been the region’s largest recipient of Chinese loans and the largest buyer of Chinese military equipment. In 2023, Beijing elevated bilateral relations with Caracas to one of its highest tiers, known as an “all-weather strategic partnership.” China’s stake in the country, which includes around $10 billion in outstanding loans, could now be at the mercy of the Trump administration, which indicated on Sunday that it would assert leverage on Venezuela’s leadership by imposing a military “quarantine” on the country’s oil exports. For Beijing, the timing of Saturday’s strike only compounded the blow. China’s special envoy for Latin American affairs, Qiu Xiaoqi, had met with Mr. Maduro in Caracas at Miraflores, the presidential palace, earlier in the day on Friday, their meeting shown on local broadcasts. “The United States took such action at a time when China’s delegation was visiting Venezuela. For China, it is very embarrassing,” said Wu Xinbo, dean of the Institute of International Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai. He said that the attack would affect relations between Washington and Beijing. That it took place during the Chinese delegation’s visit also pointed to a potential failure of China’s intelligence services and its diplomats, said Ja Ian Chong, an associate professor of political science at the National University of Singapore. Beijing has condemned the U.S. strike and said that it was “deeply shocked” by the “blatant use of force.” In what appeared to be his first remarks on the matter, Mr. Xi on Monday criticized what he called “unilateral bullying actions” that he said were “severely undermining the international order.” It is unclear how much contact Beijing has had with Caracas since Mr. Maduro was deposed. Even as the two administrations remained close, China had grown frustrated by corruption and the mismanagement of the country’s resources by the Maduro government, which came to power in 2013, analysts say. As billions of dollars in unpaid loans racked up, China effectively stopped lending to Caracas more than eight years ago. “Venezuela is a headache now for China, but it’s a headache worth having,” said Ryan C. Berg, director of the Americas Program and head of the Future of Venezuela Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “Beijing saw Maduro as a complete clown, but in many ways, he was their clown as long as he remained in power.”
  16. For daily proof that his brain isn't complete mush, he should be forced to solve Wordle on live TV each morning with a bonus for solving Connections.
  17. I mean, one could also argue that each US state is also "semi-autonomous." And yet Greenlanders do get representation in the Danish Parliament, just as states also have representatives in our Congress, which is more than residents of DC and Puerto Rico can say. And sure, polls from a year ago show a slim majority (56%) wanted independence last January, but I'd be really curious to see what the results would be today, with a looming threat of annexation by the US. But even if they still want independence, you're right to point out that an overwhelming majority DO NOT WANT us to take over. Other than hashing out the details, there was no reason to oppose a stronger US presence on the island before these threats, but now I kinda doubt we'd be welcome to add new American bases when NATO's Scandinavian members would likely be very willing to do so if it meant preventing Trump from "running" the place.
  18. Meet the billionaire Trump megadonor set to make a killing from Venezuela attack One of President Donald Trump’s top billionaire donors, who has spent the past several months backing a push for regime change in Venezuela, is about to cash in after the president’s kidnapping of the nation’s president, Nicolas Maduro, this weekend. While he declined to tell members of Congress, Trump has said he tipped off oil executives before the illegal attack. At a press conference following the attack, he said the US would have “our very large United States oil companies” go into Venezuela, which he said the US will “run” indefinitely, and “start making money” for the United States. As Judd Legum reported on Monday for Popular Information, among the biggest beneficiaries will be the billionaire investor Paul Singer: In 2024, Singer, an 81-year-old with a net worth of $6.7 billion, donated $5 million to Make America Great Again Inc., Trump’s Super PAC. Singer donated tens of millions more in the 2024 cycle to support Trump’s allies, including $37 million to support the election of Republicans to Congress. He also donated an undisclosed amount to fund Trump’s second transition. Singer is also a major pro-Israel donor, with his foundation having donated more than $3.3 million to groups like the Birthright Israel Foundation, the Israel America Academic Exchange, Boundless Israel, and others in 2021, according to tax filings. In November 2025, less than two months before Trump’s operation to take over Venezuela, Singer’s investment firm, Elliott Investment Management, inked a highly fortuitous deal. It purchased Citgo, the US-based subsidiary of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, for $5.9 billion—a sale that was forced by a Delaware court after Venezuela defaulted on its bond payments. The court-appointed special master who forced the sale, Robert Pincus, is a member of the board of directors for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Elliott Management hailed the court order requiring the sale in a press release, saying it was “backed by a group of strategic US energy investors.” Singer acquired Citgo’s three massive coastal refineries, 43 oil terminals, and more than 4,000 gas stations at a “major discount” because of its distressed status. Advisers to the court overseeing the sale estimated its value at $11-13 billion, while the Venezuelan government estimated it at $18 billion. As Legum explained, the Trump administration’s embargo on Venezuelan oil imports to the United States bore the primary responsibility for the company’s plummeting value: Citgo’s refiners are purpose-built to process heavy-grade Venezuelan “sour” crude. As a result, Citgo was forced to source oil from more expensive sources in Canada and Colombia. (Oil produced in the United States is generally light-grade.) This made Citgo’s operations far less profitable. It is the preferred modus operandi for Singer, whose hedge fund is often described as a “vulture” capital group. As Francesca Fiorentini, a commentator at Zeteo, explained, Singer “is famous for doing things like buying the debt of struggling countries like Argentina for pennies on the dollar and then forcing that country to repay him with interest plus legal fees.” Venezuelan Vice President and Minister of Petroleum Delcy Rodríguez called the sale of Citgo to Singer “fraudulent” and “forced” in December. After the US abducted Maduro this week, Trump named Rodriguez as Venezuela’s interim president—and she was formally sworn in Monday—but he warned that she’ll pay a “very big price” if she refuses to do “what we want.” That is good news for Singer, who is expected to be one of the biggest beneficiaries of an oil industry controlled by US corporations, which will likely not be subject to crippling sanctions. Singer has reportedly met with Trump directly at least four times since he was first elected in 2016, most recently in 2024. While it is unknown whether the two discussed Venezuela during those meetings, groups funded by Singer have pushed aggressively for Trump to take maximal action to decapitate the country’s leadership. Since 2011, Singer has donated over $10 million and continues to sit on the board of directors for the right-wing Manhattan Institute think tank, which in recent months has consistently advocated for Maduro to be removed from power. In October, it published an article praising Trump for his “consistent policies against Venezuela’s Maduro.” He has also been a major donor to the neoconservative think tank Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), serving as its second-largest contributor from 2008-2011, with more than $3.6 million. In late November, shortly before Trump announced that the US had closed Venezuelan airspace and began to impound Venezuelan oil tankers, FDD published a policy brief stating that the US has “capabilities to launch an overwhelming air and missile campaign against the Maduro regime” that it could use to remove him from power. Singer himself has acted as a financial attack dog for Trump during his first year back in office. In June, he contributed $1 million to fund a super PAC aiming to oust Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who’d become Trump’s leading Republican critic over his Department of Justice’s refusal to release its files pertaining to the billionaire sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. A super PAC tied to Miriam Adelson, another top pro-Israel donor who recently said she’d give Trump $250 million if he ran for a third term, also reportedly helped to fund the campaign against Massie. Massie has since gone on to be one of the most vocal opponents in Congress to Trump’s regime change push in Venezuela, joining Democrats to co-sponsor multiple failed war powers resolutions that would have reined in the president’s ability to launch military strikes against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and launch an attack on mainland Venezuela. As the Trump administration has asserted that American corporations are entitled to the oil controlled by Venezuela’s state firm, Massie rebutted this weekend that: “It’s not American oil. It’s Venezuelan oil.” “Oil companies entered into risky deals to develop oil, and the deals were canceled by a prior Venezuelan government,” he said. “What’s happening: Lives of US soldiers are being risked to make those oil companies (not Americans) more profitable.” Massie said that Singer, “who’s already spent $1,000,000 to defeat me in the next election, stands to make billions of dollars on his distressed Citgo investment, now that this administration has taken over Venezuela.” Fiorentini added that “Paul Singer’s shady purchase of Citgo has everything to do with this coup.”
  19. For Many Jan. 6 Rioters, a Pardon From Trump Wasn’t Enough Some pardoned rioters have been rearrested. Others returned to poverty and mental health challenges. And many became consumed by resentment and demands for payback. In the first hours of his second administration, President Trump sought to wipe away all trace of the attack on the Capitol by granting amnesty to nearly 1,600 people implicated in the riot stoked by his lies about a stolen election. They answered with a collective cry of gratitude. And why not? The pardon proclamation saved them, opening prison doors and ending all of the criminal prosecutions related to the Capitol attack. Even more, it gave a presidential stamp of approval to their inverted vision of Jan. 6, 2021: that those who assaulted the police and vandalized the historic building that day were victims, and those who spent the next four years using the criminal justice system to hold them accountable were villains. But nearly a year after Mr. Trump’s sweeping proclamation asserted that he had cleared the way for “a process of national reconciliation,” many recipients of his clemency remain consumed by conspiracy theories, angry at the Trump administration for not validating their insistence that the Capitol attack was a deep-state setup and haunted by problems from both before and after the riot. “Being pardoned doesn’t make these families whole,” Cynthia Hughes, a prominent advocate for the Jan. 6 defendants, wrote on social media recently. “Many are barely holding on mentally, emotionally, and financially. To pretend otherwise is a lie.” In the five years since the Capitol was stormed, no new facts have emerged to undermine the basic findings of congressional and Justice Department investigators that many of the rioters acted in the misguided belief, pushed relentlessly by Mr. Trump, that he had been robbed of victory in 2020 — and that in attacking the Capitol they not only injured about 140 police officers but also struck at a cornerstone of American democracy: the peaceful transfer of presidential power. Even so, Mr. Trump has long maintained that the rioters endured horrible, even illegal, mistreatment during their prosecutions. And yet if that is true, some pardoned rioters are now asking, then why haven’t their persecutors been thrown in jail? And if the rioters are martyrs to a righteous cause, as the president and his allies have often said, then why haven’t they been made whole through financial reparations? While this disillusionment is not universal, some so-called J6ers have even begun to ask why, after nearly a year in power, Mr. Trump’s law enforcement agencies have yet to provide any proof of the conspiracy theory they promoted to help him reclaim the presidency: that deep-state agents lured Trump supporters into storming the Capitol to derail the MAGA movement and justify political reprisals. What J6ers rarely seem to acknowledge is the possibility that Mr. Trump’s government has failed to reveal the hidden truth about Jan. 6 because there is no hidden truth, no deep-state conspiracy, and therefore no legal reason to bring further charges related to the riot. Still, their questions have nurtured new conspiracy theories from the old, focused not on the Biden administration, but on those in power now, Trump loyalists like the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, and Attorney General Pam Bondi. The theories have intensified as the fifth anniversary of Jan. 6 has arrived — a milestone that many rioters believe marks the final chance to punish the shadowy government agents who supposedly entrapped them in what they have come to call the “fedsurrection.” “If the true perpetrators of Jan. 6 aren’t held accountable before the statute of limitations expires on Jan. 6, 2026, count me OUT of the midterms,” Shane Jenkins, whose several felony convictions for Jan. 6 included assaulting law enforcement, wrote last month. “I’ll be running AGAINST the GOP.” By feeding a steady diet of unfounded conspiracy theories not only to the J6ers but also to others in their base, Mr. Trump and his allies have spawned what some experts have likened to a zombie army of followers. And now, by failing to follow these theories to their logical conclusions, they are seeing that army begin to turn on them. “When you’re told day after day that you’re a victim — when you’re told that for four years straight — it sinks in,” said Jon Lewis, a research fellow with the Program on Extremism at George Washington University. “They’ve become conspiratorial-minded people looking for the next thing to mobilize for.” “There’s this zombie specter of Jan. 6 defendants who are just looking for that red meat,” Mr. Lewis added.
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