Here’s the thing, I don’t think Trump can weather this storm.

What he can do, is weather the doubt. But as soon as that doubt vanishes, he and a bunch of his associates will lose support from all but the most rabid of MAGA, and that’s not enough support to remain in office.

Ah yes, as we all well know, politics is an all or nothing game with no compromise allowed on anything or anyone.

Except that you’re lying your ass off.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/nyregion/zohran-mamdani-israel-palestine.html

So, since you have chosen Nothing, please disconnect your phone and Internet, move out into the middle of nowhere, and never inflict your presence in anyone ever again.

I would love for Democrats to gain enough seats to both impeach and convict.

I think that’s the only thing that can save us at this point.

We need to impeach Trump, Vance, Thomas, and Alito at the minimum.

We need to also pass a law that removes Thomas’ and Alito’s votes from any case they sat on.

All of their writings need to be stricken from the legal record. Not destroyed, but just redered legally null and void

No, he moved forward without bothering to ask anyone for permission and then fired the oversight agency when they loudly complained about the complete destruction of the East Wing.

So, in order. He doesn’t want to, emphatically no, and he doesn’t give two shits about either, but loves the bribes and stuffing construction companies.

Eh, massive correlation is still not causation. No matter how massive.

Not if he doesn’t change that ladder. A, it can kill the tree to nail into it like that, and B, those nails can also work themselves out, especially wet, windy, or even dry. Basically anything that stresses the tree.

Anyway, the board usually doesn’t fall out on its own. The most common time for it to give out is suddenly and unpredictably while someone is climbing on it.

A slight correction about the Klan, while it was likely true of the first version of the Klan, the second was a multilevel marketing scam by racists to fleece other racists out of their money.

The robes were branded clothing, and the rings, and the white only vacation spots, and so much more.

The story of it all is somewhat funny, and very depressing. Mostly because it’s always the exact same story. A racist leader scamming their followers out of money while encouraging more racism.

Behind the Bastards did a multiple part episode on the Klan a while back, it’s worth a listen.

There are thousands of ant hill sculptures in the world.

The two main ways of making them are either aluminum or some sort of concrete or plaster.

Aluminum is used more often, due to the ease of extraction from the ground, and the fact that you can clean it with a garden hose or pressure washer.

Cement or plaster are used when accuracy is desired, but those sculptures need to be removed from the ground with hand trowels and brushes, and will likely need individual parts to be reinforced or braced to prevent breakage.

Both methods can be used to study the structure of and ant hill. But aluminum far more common for the more artistic versions of the sculpture.

You’d pick up a lot of sand… Normally you’d use a metal like aluminum. You can sandblast that clean.

But clear means epoxy. That stuff doesn’t hold up very well under sandblasting. It can be done, but expect mistakes.

It is what they plan for the rest of us. Fascism has always been a sort of “blindly obey the leader or die” sort of thing.

The second major problem is that a whole bunch of people are then killed, first for being the wrong ethnicity, or killed for having the wrong beliefs, or maybe you just live on land that some rich asshole wants to steal. These people will never even be given a chance to “obey” but will likely be told that they are being killed for disobedience. Or someone will be told.

And the lie will be believed, because it will be convenient to do so.

Here’s a horrible fact, almost every dictatorship in history has been a pedo dictatorship.

Authoritarianism and pedophillia seem to go hand in hand, but because the pedo dictator almost always focuses on teenagers, this aspect of authoritarianism tends to go under reported.

To be fair here, some of the names on the list have been loudly calling it a genocide or ethnic cleansing for years, some were loud about it years before October 7th.

When you are in the military, you are under an unbreakable contract.

While getting out is preferable, for those who can not, it’s better that they resist the illegal orders.

That’s always the goal. If everyone is oppressed, but they get to participate in the oppression of others, they’ll jump at the chance.

It’s the fucked up social contract that fascist supporters have with their dear leader, support dear leader unconditionally and dear leader will declare a new group of people to be below the supporters in the social hierarchy. This giving the supporters license to oppress that group.

While the supporters don’t like getting shit on from above, they take great pleasure from shitting on those below.

But Steam Boat Willie is your friend. Do whatever the fuck you want with him and his short, and as long as you don’t give him gloves, Disney can’t do a thing about it.

Not really. Actual democracies have incentives to make things better for the majority of people. And the easiest way to do that is to break up monopolies (especially in media), tax the rich, and then invest heavily in education.

Coincidentally, the way to kill a democracy is to do the exact opposite.

Anyone who knows their Middle Eastern history will know Sykes-Picot the agreement between the British and French government from midway through the first world war.

Most of the current mess goes back to that agreement.

Also, the British then ruled Mandatory Palestine for another 25 or so years after the end of WW1.

So yeah, aside from everything else, there’s still lingering resentment for the British.

The enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s enemy. No more, no less.

This is worse. They took someone’s actual research on how harmful this shit is, and how it doesn’t work. And then said the opposite to a group of jackasses, some of whom have openly talked about how they want to enshrine Christianity as the national religion.