President Donald Trump

Y'know Karl, very much in spite of myself...I'm starting to like you. 😀

I see a picture of a guy. I know nothing else about him. Is that your story? I can do that too.

This is one of the guys the US government killed

are we allowed to tell people to die in a grease fire still, or do we have to secretly wish it?

I think it's fair game to say to Tren de Aragua gang members

Perhaps talk to this person about wishing death on people. Pick a side.

Probably not. My wife is a lefty, yeah I know you don't believe it but she actually is, but we've been together for 22 years. She'd put thumb tacks in my underwear if I voted for trump but there isn't really any attempt to change the other person - although im not a hardcore rw'er. She's changed her opinions on gun ownership and I've changed my opinion on climate change but I don't know how much of that was due to the other person v just naturally adapting to reality. But the only valuable thing that I learned from it was to not let politics ruin your short life.

But you're probably closer to her dad's age.

I mean, i've obviously owned and shot guns for a very long time but generally speaking, I still think guns are dangerous obviously and I would actually prefer that most people, even those who are cautious of guns, to not go out and buy them for w/e fear based, self defense, or lefty revolutionary ideas that they had in mind.

From my experiences, and what I think my wife may have experienced, is there is a certain degree of grounding involved even as something as basic as trap shooting. There is respect that is needed for your own self-worth and those around you and that kind of intensifies when you often operate a weapon that can so easily kill someone else. You realize that life isn't GTA 5 or personal beefs/fights aren't worth escalating.

I think part of it was that my wife understands better now than most lefty leaning people that we are in world with literally a half a billion guns that aren't going anywhere in our lifetime, and it would be better to work along side that reality.

But nothing scarier than someone who has never held a gun, holding one. It's always a mess and often worse.

People who bring guns when doing politics strikes me as more interested in bringing the gun than they are in bringing the politics, at least in societies where free speech and assembly is still somewhat respected. I guess it is some kind of weird self-affirmation.

And if people are worried about the growing autocracy of the current US government and its executive branch, your primary weapon against that is organization and joining up with people with similar concerns, even if you do not see eye to eye on all things politics. Fantasizing about the second revolutionary war while in the shower won't accomplish much.

For what it is worth, I'm also gun owner and for a few years in my younger life I had a profession were guns played a part. My issue isn't with guns. Though as a non-American this view is easier to hold; my life is free of people who fetishise guns as some kind of universal solvent for problems.

It's been a wild ride so far.

It’s literally impossible to say something is criminal fraud based solely on looking at an accounting spreadsheet. That number is never going any to be anything but zero

And yet they keep shouting about fraud

Don't worry boys. Step 1 is just firing their enemies. I'm sure in step 2 they'll start rounding them up and then you'll feel better.

waaaa

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch...

Heh. He looks 30 years younger and has a better head of hair. If they used a digital still picture, he'd be flaming mad at how awful he looks. I guess he really thinks he looks like his NFT images.

This is weird. As LoL said, the picture doesn't look bad at all. Plus Polis has been trying to play nice with Trump for the most part.

There are a lot of concerns here in CO that as a blue state, Trump is going to take things away. Not sure where it stands, but they were talking about moving some space stuff to AL. And there is the general concern about fed jobs going away. I didn't realize this until recently, but Denver is considered kind of a mini DC in the west with the level of government jobs and activity. I think that's why Polis has been trying to tone down the more inflammatory voices in the state, like the ******ed mayor of Denver, who even the lefties in Denver can't stand. Maybe Trump was disappointed Polis hasn't wanted to do battle with him so he's making this up as a way to get it started?

Takes a decade to uncover Madoff, complains when nothing uncovered in 2 months.

If I had access to Madoff's financial records, it would take me about a half-day to uncover his fraud. Try to find a better example.

eh, just give it a couple days 😀

I can believe you're married to a left-wing woman. You've never struck me as an incurious person or a hardcore ideologue. And I like your posts just fine 👍

My post was obviously me just messing around, but the degree by which the average spouse affects their spouse's politics would be an interesting thing to study. And in which direction does it flow? I remember those political ads that were like "ladies, don't worry, your man's not gonna know if you vote for Kamala!", and nothing with the reverse sentiment, so I assume the patriarchy is too powerful for the wokeness and the women are disproportionately caving to their partner's politics (or maybe they all just quietly carry around those thumb tacks you speak of). I certainly could be wrong.

Confused about your last sentence as it usually works in the reverse; the common trope is that leftists and/or Marxists are dorm-room college students who will drop that nonsense once they have a wife and baby. Anyway, I'm in my 30s.

LOL

Trump is furious that they made him look a bit more like a normal human instead of the orange cotton candy head-ass, fat-ass dope that he actually is

Only the best

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-appoints-alina-habba-us-attorney-new-jersey/story?id=120099632

ABC News

Trump appoints former personal attorney Alina Habba as US attorney for New Jersey

Yep Harry Markopolos called it based on just his accounts.

The SEC did a seriously good job of not catching him.

Part of the fraud was bogus reporting to the SEC, yes? Of course Trump is cutting everywhere so soon it won't matter what anyone reports to any government agency - Hello IRS - there won't be anyone there to look at it.

[URL]https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/?gift=kPTlqn0J1iP9IBZcsdI5IVJpB2t9BYyxpzU4sooa69M&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share="The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling."[/URL]

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling

I will communicate in the language of these esteemed men and women:

😵😵

The radical left has done it again