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Pblakeney

Legendary Member
A couple of quotes that sum up the chaos, and the loss of support.

Podcaster Joe Rogan: “This war with Iran is terrifying. And it’s exactly the opposite of what we were told leading into this admin, that it’s gonna be America First and then no more unnecessary foreign wars. If oil prices spike, we’re farked. And the Republicans are really farked.”

… Trump said he’s been briefed on Iranian terrorist sleeper cells inside the US: “We know where most of them are, we’ve got our eye on all of them - I think.”
 

Pinno718

Legendary Member
A couple of quotes that sum up the chaos, and the loss of support.

Podcaster Joe Rogan: “This war with Iran is terrifying. And it’s exactly the opposite of what we were told leading into this admin, that it’s gonna be America First and then no more unnecessary foreign wars. If oil prices spike, we’re farked. And the Republicans are really farked.”

… Trump said he’s been briefed on Iranian terrorist sleeper cells inside the US: “We know where most of them are, we’ve got our eye on all of them - I think.”

Joe Rogan flip flops. One moment he's loosing his religion and the next, he's back to enthusiastically having a go at Democrats. When he's loosing his religion it's all quiet and softly softly as if he doesn't want too many of his audience to hear him criticise Trump and the MAGA bowel movement. When he's criticising Dems, he's loud, vociferous, animated and full of vitriol. Overall, he's teetering on the brink of the reality that Trump is a fraud and he's been lied to. Fuentes went full anti-Trump but Rogan's impaired cognitive reasoning means that it will take a bit more time and if the reality is just too stark, he might go just off on a tangent and blame it all on aliens or a lefty woke Democrat lead conspiracy.

Anyway, let's step back a little. The notion that Iranian drones are going to attack California is a little bit absurd given the distance. This narrative plays in two ways: "oh my god we shouldn't have attacked Iran, look what they might do to us" and "are they really going to attack the US? If that's so, we should just nuke them".
The paranoia that the chickens may come home to roost shows just how much the Americans exist in a bubble that they don't even consider to be fragile in the first instance.
It's possible the US will be attacked. This administration has awoken what were sleeping sleeper cells and it's more than possible there will be terrorist strikes - maybe not in the US but on US interests abroad and perhaps a pop shot at a commercial plane or two.
It's whether the home camp swings towards regret or retribution.

The arrogance that they can act without consequence has never really gone away and they have suffered from 9/11 amnesia pretty quickly.
 

Pinno718

Legendary Member
DOGE staffers have come under scrutiny having to face questions after being summoned to ask questions about their roles.
This is where the smoke has been lifted a little. The data stolen and uploaded to a cloud server contains everything they need to assist int he manipulation of voting. 500m records* have been copied (stolen) and of course, you would need huge data centres to process that information, wouldn't you?
What's this got to do with cutting waste and fraud?

'Thick robots'
 
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CXRAndy

Epic Member
Iran won't be there. Donnie said they were welcome, Iran said no way, Donnie said it would be unsafe.
Always has to get the last word. Wonder if anyone else will boycott?

Only the Islamic supporters won't be there.

Good chance of cheaper tickets for those footie fans
 

Beebo

Legendary Member
IIRC it is the US that has form for this, they shot down an Iranian airliner?

Russia too.
 

Pblakeney

Legendary Member
Knicked from FB. It is a long rant, but it is a fine one.

It wasn't the 34 felony convictions. It wasn't being found liable for sexual assault. It wasn't six bankruptcies. It wasn't raw dogging a porn star while his wife was home with a newborn. It wasn't the classified documents in the shitter at Mar-a-Lago. It wasn't January 6th. It wasn't the Epstein files cover-up. It wasn't gutting healthcare for millions. It wasn't getting the tariffs struck down by his own Supreme Court.
No. None of that did it.
You know what finally got through to these thick skulled, flag waving, truck driving, freedom loving patriots?
The farking petrol price.
Four dollar gas. That's the line. That's where the moral compass finally kicked in. Not democracy. Not decency. Not dead soldiers. The price on the sign at the servo.
Nick Fuentes, actual white nationalist, is now telling his followers to vote Democrat. Let that sink through your skull for a second. The bloke who had dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago is now saying vote blue because the GOP, and I quote, broke every single promise. Epstein cover-up. No mass deportations. And now a regime change war in the Middle East that was supposedly never going to happen.
Alex Jones nearly cried on air. "I needed Trump as my lifeboat," he said. "And I'm watching it sink." The bloke who told parents of murdered six year olds that their dead children were crisis actors is now having an emotional farking crisis because his favourite strongman turned out to be full of shoot. My heart bleeds, Alex. It truly farking does.
Joe Rogan, the man who single handedly delivered the bro vote in 2024, just told his eleven million listeners that the Iran war is "insane" and that people feel "betrayed." Betrayed! The bloke had Trump on his podcast, endorsed him the night before the election, went to the inauguration like a kid at Disneyland, and now he's sitting there going "this doesn't make any sense." No shoot, Joe. Millions of us have been screaming that into the void for a farking decade.
Tucker Carlson called the strikes "disgusting and evil." Megyn Kelly said she has "serious doubts." Matt Walsh called out every single conservative influencer for being anti-war until five minutes ago. Andrew Tate, the self-help guru for incels, questioned why anyone in America benefits from bombing Iran.
And here's the thing that should make every single person who warned about this want to put their fist through a wall. Every single one of these people was told. They were told about the grift. They were told about the lies. They were told about the incompetence. They were told that a man who bankrupted casinos couldn't run an economy. They were told that "America First" was a bumper sticker, not a policy. They were told the tariffs would backfire. They were told the grocery prices would go up. They were told.
And they called us hysterical. They called us snowflakes. They called us Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers. They said we just couldn't handle winning.
Well congratulations, champions. Gas is up 60 cents in a month. Oil hit 120 dollars a barrel. The Strait of Hormuz is shut. Seven American soldiers are dead in a war that 80 year old Donald Trump started because Benjamin Netanyahu asked nicely. The Supreme Court ruled his tariffs unconstitutional. He's lost 75,000 manufacturing jobs. Grocery prices are rising at their fastest rate in three years. His approval rating is 37 percent.
This is what winning looks like, apparently.
The fark around stage lasted about eight years. The find out stage just landed like a farking extinction level asteroid. And the saddest part isn't that they're finally seeing it. The saddest part is that it took their hip pocket to get there. Not morality. Not empathy. Not the rule of law. Not dead kids in Iran. Not their own constitution.
A number on a sign at a petrol station.
That's MAGA in a nutshell. The entire movement just got distilled down to its purest essence. They didn't give a fark about democracy. They didn't give a fark about norms. They didn't give a fark about anyone who wasn't them. But the second it cost them an extra twenty bucks to fill up the F-150, suddenly they're political philosophers.
Welcome to the find out, legends. Some of us have been waiting for you.
 

briantrumpet

Timewaster
I think that the 'Let them eat cake' thing is officially dead. Marie Antoinette would be happy. Spending $6.9mn on lobster tails in one month doesn't suggest that they are looking out for the downtrodden (white) masses of the US. Rather, they are laughing at them.

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