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  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 24,833 ✭✭✭✭✭

    https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/03/trump-white-house-budget-00857167

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 24,833 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Donald J. Trump

    @realDonaldTrump

    Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the ****’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP
    likes 80.8k

    Apr 05, 2026, 8:03 AM

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 24,833 ✭✭✭✭✭

    For once he isn't lying, I believe him when he says he doesn't care about committing a possible war crime.

    U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that he’s “not at all” concerned about committing possible war crimes as he continued to threaten the destruction of Iran’s bridges and power plants if they don’t meet his Tuesday 8 p.m. ET deadline to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Speaking to reporters at the White House, the president refused to say whether any civilian targets would be off-limits.
    https://apnews.com/live/iran-war-israel-trump-04-06-2026

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 24,833 ✭✭✭✭✭

    🚨 SAUDI ARABIA JUST BECAME THE BIGGEST WAR PROFITEER IN HISTORY
    Saudi Arabia is America's closest ally. And they are getting rich from a war America is fighting. Here is the proof.
    https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/309628202270721

    https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/energy/articles/saudi-arabia-sets-record-premium-093000552.html

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 24,833 ✭✭✭✭✭

    a possibility I guess. Is this view of a bigger picture BS or accurate?

    BREAKING: U.S. CAVES TO IRAN’S DEMANDS FOR A CEASEFIRE… FOR NOW | Brian Berletic
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGaKAQYcQ5o

  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 10,309 ✭✭✭✭✭

    ^^ Saw some of that on PBS news last night, the Iranian regime is broadcasting that "The coward Trump is once again retreating in fear...etc." What do you believe?

    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 24,833 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Gives new meaning to TACO Tuesday. But "believe" is the operational word here. Is it a conspiracy theory or a deep insight into the obvious or the oblivious?

  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 10,309 ✭✭✭✭✭

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/__7mwXENVFk

    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 10,309 ✭✭✭✭✭

    There's all kinds of propaganda out there.

    What I expect now is that Iran will be smuggling out some kind of weapon on an oil tanker through the newly opened Strait. No telling what they've concocted, probably some sort of "dirty bomb".

    Meanwhile, their American educated hackers will continue to attack in the "virtual" world that controls so much of our lives these days. Financial institutions and corporate powers are the most likely targets, I think.

    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 10,309 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 10

    I believe that was a meme posted on here a few weeks ago, but it was funny.

    Gas is back up to the levels it was under Joe, not good for any of us.

    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 10,309 ✭✭✭✭✭

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RPJBmnPp5GI

    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • Vision
    Vision Posts: 10,506 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This is totally off the cuff, off the top of my head has nothing to do with any previous posts at all. I’m putting in that disclaimer because honestly, I haven’t watched all the videos above….

    With the Republican Party, their message is pretty straightforward. In my opinion, God, guns, country. Most of the conservative messages stemmed from one of those three things. With the Democratic party, you really don’t know where they stand on anything. Their message is so broad and they try to focus on way too many targets at sometimes I feel like the messages lost or so convoluted you have no idea what they really mean or how they truly feel. I have noticed though in the last few weeks, maybe months they have been given the ability to focus on a singular message. I think we’re gonna see a new Democratic message moving forward being to undo or to reverse a lot of of what Trump has done. They don’t have to talk about trans rights, they don’t have to talk about immigration policy, they don’t have to talk about Social Security or welfare or any social policies. Now they can just go out and talk about all of the negative things Trump has done. The forever war he entered into in Iran, cutting healthcare to fund his war, not being able to lower cost of living and higher gas prices. Now they just point at Trump and cc he couldn’t do any of this, but we will. Not saying that they will or won’t, but I truly believe you’re going to see Democrats in office for the foreseeable future.

    I was just sort of musing while waiting in front of a client’s home. Speech to text, not going back to look. Hope it all came out right

  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 10,309 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 10

    I think you may be right, and I think you've explained the reason why you may be right. The post right above yours is very much about the democrat messaging, but you didn't look at it. Many people only look at one side of things, and believe what they're told. We're all guilty to some extent, but some are quite exclusive, and then when it turns out that everything they've heard and read is bogus nonsense, it's too late. A lot of people who are so interested in proving that they hate Trump more than anyone else hates Trump will do exactly as you predict. Sad, but true.

    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • NorthSideSmoke
    NorthSideSmoke Posts: 1,858 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 11

    @Amos_Umwhat said:

    Gas is back up to the levels it was under Joe, not good for any of us.

    I don’t know, some would say voting for a billionaire funded by billionaires who staffed his administration with even more billionaires wouldn’t be “good for any of us”

    Some might think that shooting a mother in the head as she was driving away wouldn’t be “good for any of us”

    Some may even go so far as to say shooting a man in the back because he tried to help a woman to her feet after she had been sprayed in the face with mace wouldn’t “be good for any of us”

    Some might believe using children as bait to lure his family out of their home wouldn’t “be good for any of us”

    Others might even say imposing a tax on all Americans without consent of Congress wouldn’t “be good for any of us”

    And even more would probably say that starting a war without the approval of Congress wouldn’t “be good for any of us”

    It’s sad that it’s the price of gas that got some people to notice…..

  • NorthSideSmoke
    NorthSideSmoke Posts: 1,858 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 11

    Finally someone explained the whole war to me..

    https://youtu.be/sG6-lFdhlsg?si=R3xrSVFN-lPZ3HgL

  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 10,309 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Pretty funny stuff. If I got all my news from Jimmy Kimmel I'd probably believe it to be the truth and the whole story.

    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • Vision
    Vision Posts: 10,506 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 11

    @Amos_Umwhat said:
    Pretty funny stuff. If I got all my news from Jimmy Kimmel I'd probably believe it to be the truth and the whole story.

    You don’t think that was accurate?!?!!? Please…. Please explain.

    And my god I felt so much more educated by that YouTube short you posted. Please post more of those. You might save the world with those MAGA adjacent shorts. Was that Jannie Kimmel you posted? I didn’t catch her name.

    YOU DID THE EXACT SAME THING HE DID.
    Ohh MAGA… you do have a great leader to learn from at least.

  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 10,309 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @NorthSideSmoke said:

    @Amos_Umwhat said:

    Gas is back up to the levels it was under Joe, not good for any of us.

    It’s sad that it’s the price of gas that got some people to notice…..

    We can certainly agree on this. And those billionaires, what do they know? Nothing, right? The rest is mostly people who are not Trump, doing things that Trump didn't tell them to do, or, Trump doing what so many Presidents before him have done when faced with a crisis.

    There were some reasons I couldn't bring myself to actually vote for him. Once again I voted for one of the none-of-the-above options, just like when Obama was up for election. Too bad the Democrats couldn't primary a real candidate instead of appointing a sock puppet who would obey the whims of the woke. Sadly, they've lost all credibility when they sat on their hands, declaring themselves to be NOT present to serve the needs of their own country.

    Ah well, so it goes.

    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • Vision
    Vision Posts: 10,506 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Amos_Umwhat said:

    @NorthSideSmoke said:

    @Amos_Umwhat said:

    Gas is back up to the levels it was under Joe, not good for any of us.

    It’s sad that it’s the price of gas that got some people to notice…..

    We can certainly agree on this. And those billionaires, what do they know? Nothing, right? The rest is mostly people who are not Trump, doing things that Trump didn't tell them to do, or, Trump doing what so many Presidents before him have done when faced with a crisis.

    There were some reasons I couldn't bring myself to actually vote for him. Once again I voted for one of the none-of-the-above options, just like when Obama was up for election. Too bad the Democrats couldn't primary a real candidate instead of appointing a sock puppet who would obey the whims of the woke. Sadly, they've lost all credibility when they sat on their hands, declaring themselves to be NOT present to serve the needs of their own country.

    Ah well, so it goes.

    Better to have a leader who has his hand up the ass of all of the people around him, controlling them like sock puppets? Not so sure.

  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 14,979 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'd rather have a puppet master running things than a puppet.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • Vision
    Vision Posts: 10,506 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 11

    @ShawnOL said:
    I'd rather have a puppet master running things than a puppet.

    One with a diminished mental state and borderline dementia? That checks out for MAGA. You sure you didn’t vote for sleepy Joe?

    I thought of this after I posted it so this is my edit. I think you summed up MAGA exactly. You want, crave a dictator. He’s the puppet master and you’re the puppets. Thank you for that clarification. That’s exactly all I will ever need.

  • NorthSideSmoke
    NorthSideSmoke Posts: 1,858 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Amos_Umwhat said:
    Pretty funny stuff. If I got all my news from Jimmy Kimmel I'd probably believe it to be the truth and the whole story.

    Iol, dude he literally quoted Trump, and all you got is Jimmy Kimmel?

    See this quote here is the exact reason MAGA can’t get it through their heads TDS isn’t my ability to see through Trump’s bullshit, it’s their refusal to..

    But please, explain “the whole story” to us.

  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 10,309 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 11

    @NorthSideSmoke said:

    @Amos_Umwhat said:
    Pretty funny stuff. If I got all my news from Jimmy Kimmel I'd probably believe it to be the truth and the whole story.

    Iol, dude he literally quoted Trump, and all you got is Jimmy Kimmel?

    See this quote here is the exact reason MAGA can’t get it through their heads TDS isn’t my ability to see through Trump’s bullshit, it’s their refusal to..

    But please, explain “the whole story” to us.

    All the best lies are founded on a truth. Then, it gets spun. Like in the video. But, it was entertaining, and some of it was the honest truth. It's cool. Also, I was replying to both posts, yours and the video, and I don't think you were "literally quoting Trump". It sounded a lot more like Jimmy Kimmel.

    And, you're right about another thing, TDS isn't the "ability to see through Trump's bullshit", it's just rampant raging hate. Nothing more.

    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • aditmars@hotmail.com
    aditmars@hotmail.com Posts: 595 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited 3:53AM

    Looks like someone got off their meds 🤣🤣🤣

  • NorthSideSmoke
    NorthSideSmoke Posts: 1,858 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited 6:53AM

    @Amos_Umwhat said:

    @NorthSideSmoke said:

    @Amos_Umwhat said:

    All the best lies are founded on a truth. Then, it gets spun. Like in the video. But, it was entertaining, and some of it was the honest truth. It's cool. Also, I was replying to both posts, yours and the video, and I don't think you were "literally quoting Trump". It sounded a lot more like Jimmy Kimmel.

    And, you're right about another thing, TDS isn't the "ability to see through Trump's bullshit", it's just rampant raging hate. Nothing more.

    That last line confuses me since you said "you're right" then proceed to say the exact opposite of what I posted..

    Can you see the Bullshit?

    https://youtube.com/shorts/9lmpBqaiGtI?si=Y0-NVmO_9Ltcb_WS

  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 10,309 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited 1:20PM

    @NorthSideSmoke said:

    @Amos_Umwhat said:
    Pretty funny stuff. If I got all my news from Jimmy Kimmel I'd probably believe it to be the truth and the whole story.

    Iol, dude he literally quoted Trump, and all you got is Jimmy Kimmel?

    See this quote here is the exact reason MAGA can’t get it through their heads _TDS isn’t my ability to see through Trump’s bullshit, _it’s their refusal to..

    But please, explain “the whole story” to us.

    yep, seeing the bullshit

    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • peter4jc
    peter4jc Posts: 18,737 ✭✭✭✭✭

    We all see the bullshit, and we all have to endure bullshit from every administration, and from the entire swamp we lovingly refer to as D.C.

    Some think there is more bullshit now than there was under another guy; some think there was more under the other guy. Some, maybe most, are happy to overlook the bullshit because they think their guy is doing more good than harm.

    That's just how it is. Half the country is always happier when their bullshit (apparently theirs is odorless) is being spread because it's their guy spreading it.

    I don't care if it's an R or a D behind their name. This country's goose is cooked.

    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis
  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 24,833 ✭✭✭✭✭

    https://theweek.com/politics/us-election-who-the-billionaires-are-backing

  • peter4jc
    peter4jc Posts: 18,737 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Too late to edit my last post, so I'll just leave it here...
    https://youtu.be/xHash5takWU?si=buBR71YXUjDqT-LO

    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis

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