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4 minutes ago, Thrawn said:

Hottest toy of the season. I mean, we can make these here in the US right? Who am I kidding? I'm sure 99.9% of these are made in China.
 

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I'll see your ball in cup and raise you this one 👇 since the US Forest service is being dismantled, who needs trees? Made in America but be careful putting it in the stocking and don't use near open flames. Batteries not included.

Cool Paper Airplane Designs

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3 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

the regime is also doing is normalizing an expectation of hardship for the working and middle class because they should know their place.

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19 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

Gulp. Choke. Be honest, Roma.

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I've long wondered about an economy so dependent on needlessly extravagant gift-giving at Christmas. It's akin to burning money: having jobs we hate to buy shit we don't need. Traditional gift giving of a simple toy or a tie or a bottle of Scotch or homemade cookies had a charm. Mass advertising has turned that charming notion into the Lexus December to Remember which lies at the apex of runaway materialism, IMHO.

Advertising turns many of us into fat fucks addicted to cheese and ever-saltier and sweeter foods. 

I'm not educated at any high level on economics. I just watch. Trump's reasons are as stupid/cruel as usual, but I think I could get behind chopping down the extravagant new tradition of gift giving as an economic engine. It won't happen. Most things I'd like to see happen have just about no chance.

I guess I'm the idoit.

Well, herein lies one of those annoying tiny nuggets of truth of post-modern conservatism:  there is some rot in our culture, including rampant, silly materialism.

Not that post-modern conservatism offers any solutions, especially given their base of billionaires created almost entirely on consumerism.

But it makes for some sound bites here and there.

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32 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

I see your point but would like to offer up that what the regime is also doing is normalizing an expectation of hardship for the working and middle class because they should know their place. While that does fall under your "stupid/cruel reasons" this expectation may become the mantra and/or litmus test of what it means to be a 'patriot'. Whether the public will go along with that remains to be seen. Cannot dispute the remarks about materialism, but frankly this is the stale and moldy bread line future not the traditional orange in the stocking future.

And this is the exact opposite of the American dream. 

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There's a house with a Trump flag near a convenience store I like to use. Today the Trump flag was gone. Replaced with a Jesus flag. This nation really is full of rubes, just waiting to be conned. I was amused. Those falling approval numbers aren't a fluke.

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Just now, TwiceHorn said:

I really like the idea of openings in the fuselage failing and him and any number of his sycophants being sucked out and free-falling to earth.

His FUPA ensures he'll have a safe landing

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7 minutes ago, immamac said:

Its actually strange to think about the scenario where him and a significant portion of the cabinet were flying with him and the plane fell out of the sky. 

There was a time where that would be a global catastrophe, having negative impact because of uncertainty etc. 

Now I feel like that kind of news would be received...differently both domestically and abroad. 

The movie rights to "Miracle Over the Atlantic" would be a massive bidding war. 

 

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55 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

Gulp. Choke. Be honest, Roma.

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I've long wondered about an economy so dependent on needlessly extravagant gift-giving at Christmas. It's akin to burning money: having jobs we hate to buy shit we don't need. Traditional gift giving of a simple toy or a tie or a bottle of Scotch or homemade cookies had a charm. Mass advertising has turned that charming notion into the Lexus December to Remember which lies at the apex of runaway materialism, IMHO.

Advertising turns many of us into fat fucks addicted to cheese and ever-saltier and sweeter foods. 

I'm not educated at any high level on economics. I just watch. Trump's reasons are as stupid/cruel as usual, but I think I could get behind chopping down the extravagant new tradition of gift giving as an economic engine. It won't happen. Most things I'd like to see happen have just about no chance.

I guess I'm the idoit.

 

And when regular people can't afford toys in December, Fox News will explain to them that China is waging a war on Christmas as retaliation for the tariffs.

And the fucking idiot brigade will believe it.

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Its actually strange to think about the scenario where him and a significant portion of the cabinet were flying with him and the plane fell out of the sky. 
There was a time where that would be a global catastrophe, having negative impact because of uncertainty etc. 
Now I feel like that kind of news would be received...differently both domestically and abroad. 

While I’m actively rooting for his demise, I do concede that his death would likely push us closer than we’ve been in 150+ years to another civil war.

The fact that neighborhood streets will feature BOTH fireworks and deep mourning will result in a powder keg ripe for conflict.
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Just now, Chuckie Finster said:

While I’m actively rooting for his demise, I do concede that his death would likely push us closer than we’ve been in 150+ years to another civil war.

The fact that neighborhood streets will feature BOTH fireworks and deep mourning will result in a powder keg ripe for conflict.

There's quite a lot of being able to dish it but not take it from the trumpers. I've been looking at "FUCK YOUR FEELINGS" flags goddamn EVERYWHERE for the better part of a decade now, they're really sowing the wind in terms of community

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So you want a company that has been under intense scrutiny for the last decade for taking too many shortcuts, being blamed for numerous groundings, fatalities, etc, to now go and speed up the production of the most advanced passenger jet in the world all while operating in this new found supply constrained world?

I love this idea. Do it. Please.

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There was someone on hornfans when Obama was running calling all Obama folks on HF “sycophants”…..I think it was either spystud or rage-a-holic.

 

They are awfully quiet about the cult of turnip…

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9 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:


While I’m actively rooting for his demise, I do concede that his death would likely push us closer than we’ve been in 150+ years to another civil war.

The fact that neighborhood streets will feature BOTH fireworks and deep mourning will result in a powder keg ripe for conflict.

No one will be in deep mourning, I don't think this is a correct assessment of the situation.  

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No one will be in deep mourning, I don't think this is a correct assessment of the situation.  

Honestly not sure how to respond to this. “MAGA will be chill about Trump’s death” might be one of the wildest claims I’ve ever read on this website.
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46 minutes ago, immamac said:

Its actually strange to think about the scenario where him and a significant portion of the cabinet were flying with him and the plane fell out of the sky. 

There was a time where that would be a global catastrophe, having negative impact because of uncertainty etc. 

Now I feel like that kind of news would be received...differently both domestically and abroad. 

The world would rightly celebrate. You don’t have to tiptoe around the truth 

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38 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

 

And when regular people can't afford toys in December, Fox News will explain to them that China is waging a war on Christmas as retaliation for the tariffs.

And the fucking idiot brigade will believe it.

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10 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:


Honestly not sure how to respond to this. “MAGA will be chill about Trump’s death” might be one of the wildest claims I’ve ever read on this website.

Well that’s not remotely what he said.

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The kinds of people we're dealing with who are still hardcore MAGA will probably find something else pretty quickly after he dies. Pro wrestling or something. I agree that the celebrations will far outweigh any kind of "mourning". 

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58 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

Those falling approval numbers aren't a fluke.

Autocrats need not worry about such things. The device for removing him (impeachment) has been disarmed. The method of replacing him (elections) have been corrupted.

Trump's administration and auxilliaries putting the axe to so many elements of government that actually serve or employ people pretty clearly indicates his attitude about voters including his own. He's over that. No, he defends the means that give him control and that give his toadies the power they lust after.

As in all healthy republics who value liberty, we wonder where the Army stands.

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52 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

Those falling approval numbers aren't a fluke.

Yeah, I'm always commenting on life here in MAGAland working directly with mostly white olds in non-Austin, DFW, Houston, San Antonio Texas and there has certainly been a shift.

1.) They are not buying the tariffs at all. "His stupid tariff idea" is a common sentence

2.) They would, without a doubt, still crawl over broken glass to vote for him and every other R today. 

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57 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

I really like the idea of openings in the fuselage failing and him and any number of his sycophants being sucked out and free-falling to earth.

Perhaps a scraped-off mushroom left stuck to the jagged edge of the hole. 

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21 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:


Honestly not sure how to respond to this. “MAGA will be chill about Trump’s death” might be one of the wildest claims I’ve ever read on this website.

I think they would find a new savior. They just need someone to see their white pain. I don’t think anyone is going to war in our current climate. There would have to be a complete breakdown in all social systems to warrant any taking to the streets. It’s the same reason why liberals won’t go to streets during the Trump admin and shed blood. Too many Netflix shows to watch. Or for MAGA supporters, Paramount+ shows. 

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53 minutes ago, dieucla98 said:

So you want a company that has been under intense scrutiny for the last decade for taking too many shortcuts, being blamed for numerous groundings, fatalities, etc, to now go and speed up the production of the most advanced passenger jet in the world all while operating in this new found supply constrained world?

I love this idea. Do it. Please.

It's Trump's favorite business model. It's almost as though he's on both ends of the negotiation. 

To avoid yet another separate post:

From @Dr. Teeth (I still love that avatar, btw)

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I think they would find a new savior. They just need someone to see their white pain.

They'll find a St. Peter or Paul. That's how revealed religions work. It keeps the original Word (Hate, in this case) and Prophet (Dickwad in this case) holy.

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Well that’s not remotely what he said.

I must have misunderstood then.

I agree that the traditional silent, somber “deep mourning” of a public figure won’t occur, but there will be a lot of people who will have big emotions about his death that will likely not respond favorably to those of us who will celebrate it.
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3 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:


I must have misunderstood then.

I agree that the traditional silent, somber “deep mourning” of a public figure won’t occur, but there will be a lot of people who will have big emotions about his death that will likely not respond favorably to those of us who will celebrate it.

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Not quite sure who Tony Pentimalli is but I saw this posted and thought I'd share:

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The Warning Was Real: Trump's Executive Order Confirms the Move Toward Martial Law

By Tony Pentimalli

On April 1, 2025, I wrote that Donald Trump was preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act. I said it wasn't about immigration. It wasn't about security. It was about power. Many wanted to believe it was alarmism, that the "system" would save us. They were wrong.

Last week, Trump confirmed everything.

On April 28, 2025, Donald Trump signed Executive Order named: "Strengthening and Unleashing America's Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Citizens." Sounds harmless. It isn't. It's a blueprint for authoritarian control without the need to formally declare martial law.

The order arms local police with military assets. It removes federal oversight from abusive departments. It provides legal immunity to officers who violate civil rights in the course of their "duties." It threatens to punish governors, mayors, and local leaders who resist federal directives. It mandates that DHS and DOJ coordinate the use of Homeland Security Task Forces — task forces created under Executive Order 14159, which explicitly authorizes federal intervention inside American cities.

In other words, it federalizes local law enforcement in everything but name.

Trump doesn’t need to declare martial law. He’s building it brick by brick.

Consider the timing: this order came eight days after the April 20 deadline Trump himself set when he ordered the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security to recommend whether he should invoke the Insurrection Act. To this day, the contents of that April 20 report remain hidden from the public. The administration has refused transparency. But we don’t have to guess what they recommended. Trump’s actions tell us.

This is not hypothetical. This is not a warning of something that "could" happen.

It is happening now.

Militarized policing is here. Trump’s order instructs the Department of Defense to determine how excess military assets, training, "non-lethal capabilities," and even personnel can be funneled into local policing. Already, armored vehicles, battlefield surveillance drones, and riot control weaponry are flowing into local departments.

Civilian oversight is dead. Trump's order directs the Attorney General to review and "modify, rescind, or conclude" all federal consent decrees and monitoring arrangements that "unduly burden" law enforcement. Translation: if a local police department is under federal watch because of corruption, brutality, or racism, Trump now demands that watch end.

Immunity for abuses is guaranteed. If an officer brutalizes a protester or kills an unarmed civilian while "performing their duties," they will have the full legal defense of the federal government behind them. Trump has legalized impunity.

Federal retaliation against dissent is coming. Trump's executive order empowers the Attorney General to "pursue all necessary legal remedies" against any state or city official who tries to protect their communities from federal overreach. If a mayor refuses to allow militarized ICE raids? If a governor defends protest rights? They can now face federal lawsuits, DOJ investigations, and the cutoff of federal funding.

Formal martial law — the suspension of civilian government — isn't declared. It's simply enacted.

This is how authoritarian regimes operate throughout history: by centralizing control over security forces, stripping civilian oversight, immunizing loyal enforcers, and criminalizing local resistance. Trump is following a well-worn, dangerous pattern.

The precedent is clear.

Trump called for "domination" in 2020 and sent unidentified federal agents to snatch protesters off the streets of Portland.

Trump sent federal agents to Lafayette Square to violently clear peaceful protesters for a photo op.

Trump gleefully used ICE and CBP to terrorize immigrant communities, even as courts struggled to intervene.

Trump praised the Supreme Court when it upheld his Muslim ban.

He has never respected dissent. He has never tolerated opposition. And now, he has built the machinery to crush it.

And where are the so-called "checks and balances" now?

The courts? Trump’s Supreme Court majority has already signaled a dangerous deference to executive power.

Congress? House Republicans are in lockstep, and Senate Democrats are paralyzed by institutional cowardice.

The media? Distracted, exhausted, and more interested in covering Trump's photo ops than his executive orders.

The public? Distrustful, divided, and still hoping that someone else will save them.

Trump counts on that passivity. He counts on your fatigue.

That’s why he moves in bursts — a flurry of orders, each more authoritarian than the last, until the norm becomes submission.

We must not submit.

The first time around, Trump tested the waters. Lafayette Square. Portland. Muslim Ban. Family Separation.

This time, he isn't testing.

He's executing.

The streets are being militarized. Civilian oversight is being gutted. Law enforcement is being deputized as the federal government's domestic army. And the groundwork for invoking the Insurrection Act is already finished.

If Trump formally declares it, there will be no need for panic — because the tanks, the raids, the silencing of dissent, and the crushing of opposition will already be in place.

This is not a future threat.

This is a present reality.

Speak. Resist. Now.

Not next month. Not after the next outrage. Not after the next court loss.

Now.

The warning was real. And it's happening before our eyes.

The Constitution won't crumble with a bang. It will be signed away, one executive order at a time.

*Tony Pentimalli is a political analyst and commentator fighting for democracy, economic justice, and social equity. Follow him for sharp analysis and hard-hitting critiques on Facebook and BlueSky

@tonywriteshere.bsky.social

 

Posted
1 hour ago, immamac said:

Its actually strange to think about the scenario where him and a significant portion of the cabinet were flying with him and the plane fell out of the sky. 

There was a time where that would be a global catastrophe, having negative impact because of uncertainty etc. 

Now I feel like that kind of news would be received...differently both domestically and abroad. 

Air Force One's wings flying off right after takeoff would win that episode of America's Funniest Home Videos.

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No shit, Sherlock. It's not a future this or present that; it's everlasting Idiot World populated by the eponymous and the happy slapdicks, like you, who see something that's been obvious for ten years and readily apparent for decades as some sort of revelation.

Congratulations, you're the latest genius of Idiot World.

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29 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:


I must have misunderstood then.

I agree that the traditional silent, somber “deep mourning” of a public figure won’t occur, but there will be a lot of people who will have big emotions about his death that will likely not respond favorably to those of us who will celebrate it.

I'm actually curious about people's opinions on this.  What percentage of the adult population will be legitimately sad about this scenario?  I can't fathom it would be more than 20%.  And I'd guess double that amount would be elated.  The remaining 40% would be apathetic or, at most, nervous/uneasy about the implications of his death.

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On 4/27/2025 at 7:28 PM, Gatorubet said:

That’s probably 200 subcomponents of the trade deal with the island of Vanuatu.  The real problem is trying to get all of those cargo cults on board.

200 Penguins have signed on, only 2.4 million to go.

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Man I've been alive 48 years and there has never been anything close to the kind of death speculation that you hear about the Dotard. I can't even think of who would have second place. Bin Laden dying was a big deal and prompted USA chants, but we didn't all sit around talking about what it would be like if he died. 

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1 minute ago, Todd Gack said:

I'm actually curious about people's opinions on this.  What percentage of the adult population will be legitimately sad about this scenario?  I can't fathom it would be more than 20%.  And I'd guess double that amount would be elated.  The remaining 40% would be apathetic or, at most, nervous/uneasy about the implications of his death.

Don't forget to factor in outrage over an idiotic theory of who killed him (natural causes are right out the window in Conspiracy World).

In a world where politics for the majority seems to be akin to NFL fanship, imagine the emotional fallout should someone's favorite team perish in a plane crash.

A hard core of 40% of adults who have their entire identity, religion (quasi-religion?), and (lack of) values defined by Trump makes a very formidable plurality who will surely fill the world with lamentation, hate, and repercussions against the most powerless entities they can locate.

Every vile act of Trump will be codified. 

It's hardly a matter of how weepy people will get. It's a matter of how tamely the rest of us will endure it.

Great question though. Seriously.

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1 hour ago, immamac said:

Its actually strange to think about the scenario where him and a significant portion of the cabinet were flying with him and the plane fell out of the sky. 

There was a time where that would be a global catastrophe, having negative impact because of uncertainty etc. 

Now I feel like that kind of news would be received...differently both domestically and abroad. 

 

1 hour ago, dieucla98 said:

So you want a company that has been under intense scrutiny for the last decade for taking too many shortcuts, being blamed for numerous groundings, fatalities, etc, to now go and speed up the production of the most advanced passenger jet in the world all while operating in this new found supply constrained world?

I love this idea. Do it. Please.

If it crashed due to an expedite that he forced through it would result in the most popular topic in the leopards thread.

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4 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:

RFKJ: Vaccines contain “a lot of aborted fetus debris.”

That reminds me that it's been a while since I've had a Mother's debris sandwich.

Mother's Restaurant - "Debris roast beef Po' boy. New Orleans French bread  dressed with shredded cabbage, sliced pickles and mayonnaise. Turnip greens  on the side." | 📸 & caption: @jesstravelingfoodie /Instagram |

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I'm actually curious about people's opinions on this.  What percentage of the adult population will be legitimately sad about this scenario?  I can't fathom it would be more than 20%.  And I'd guess double that amount would be elated.  The remaining 40% would be apathetic or, at most, nervous/uneasy about the implications of his death.

I need it to happen in the morning, so there's ample time to chill your special bottle.
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