I keep agreeing with the idea that Trump was part of the trafficking pipeline. At some point in a system like this, the abusers wind up being part of the machinery, especially a guy like Trump who literally stuck his fingers in every industry he thought he could get away with. I don’t see him not “returning the favor” by trafficking girls from his pageants and other events to Epstein or other abusers in the network.

No, Trump loves Trump. Everyone else is useful until they’re not, at which point they get thrown under the bus or conveniently commit suicide.

Bulgaria’s far-right government, Madagascar, Indonesia very recently, Myanmar’s still ongoing.

It’s not about doing that. It’s all about the fact that he CAN, and that Miller and Hegseth and the rest of the Heritage Foundation sees the entirety of North and South America as potential vassal states at best and colonial plantations at worst.

They’re small people, who think they’re big because they got a bit of power, a badge and a gun.

Because he’s holding out for a spot when Trump dies. Everyone in the conservative sphere is circling the White House like sharks because they know half of everyone is gone as soon as Vance sits down - because half of them are in those seats on account of being friends with Trump and nothing more.

He has a time travel device in the latest movie. Who’s to say his future self didn’t steal an RPG-7 and time travel back to the first film Bill and Ted style to make sure it was there?

This is actually why a lot of public schools are so poorly funded now. Back in the civil rights era, white families who could afford it sent their kids to private schools after desegregation, where their schools could still be segregated (because they didn’t receive federal funds). The white people who couldn’t send their kids off to private or religious schools decided that “if we have to share space with black folk, we’ll just drag our formerly-white schools down to the level that black schools were at”. Cue a generation or two growing up with poorly-funded schools and it turns rapidly into a tradition - “we’ve always had low taxes from the school district, why do we need to increase it half a mill”.

Why would they bother with the license if the ICE facial app scan said she was an immigrant? I thought it was absolute and infallible…

Definitely weaponization. It’s no coincidence that Bondi ordered a new investigation 4 days ago.

There’s also the fact that Trump looks fully out to lunch in this picture. Not even like “wha nobody’s paying attention to me”, quite literally not even present in the moment.

They’re already gearing up for a ground invasion of Mexico. I’m personally super excited for Mexican-American War 2. /s

I was about to say, they’re only doing it this way because you can’t just have them killed openly.

Cuomo has the support of the guy who, less than a full day after the attack, was in an interview gloating about how he was so happy that he had the tallest building in Manhattan now.

Quite literally every budget, from what I understand. They’re robbing pretty much every project that’s been appropriated already so they can pay ICE and the military.

Call it what it is: an intimidation tactic.

I honestly don’t disagree with people who point out that we need to get massive protests. General strikes, campaigns to grind entire cities to a halt. Take a look at France, at Italy, even at the modern conservative movements in the US - we could and arguably should shut down the entire country until things get WAY better. Days without a government might not matter to a lot of people, a day without work might not impact much, but when you even get 5% of the population just not doing their jobs, not contributing to the economy, or out in the streets actively making it harder for OTHER PEOPLE to do their jobs, suddenly the impact magnifies immensely.

I agree with the other commenters that he’s just not that smart. I legitimately cannot see an administration of, basically, bullies trying to blackmail anyone into anything, because it doesn’t fit their MO. They don’t go for emotional blackmail, it’s all threats because that’s what they’re best at. Kidnap and implicitly threaten the kids or the wife so the guy you’re trying to deport comes out. Threaten the reporters or the onlookers with implied violent force. Threaten the people being mean to you on social media with that same violent force. It’s all they know how to do, and they know it works very well so long as you have what they’ve had most or all of their lives: privilege and power to back it up.

Trump was right in that he could’ve shot someone in broad daylight and gotten off. Any of these rich fascist fucks could - RFK Jr might have, allegedly. Not because they have millions of adoring fans, but because they’re bullies and can monetarily and violently threaten people into silence pretty easily with the wealth, access, and privilege that they have.

Yes but it doesn’t matter if people THINK it’s good. Enough of his voters are still delusional enough that they think the high prices are Democrat’s Fault Stuff, and everything will be Fine once we have all the Hated Enemies out of our country in a year or so. My mother and stepfather think this way.

There’s also the third option of “we saw a diagram of a monopolar electrosurgical unit at one point and decided that was magic that can cure stuff”.