Apparition of Jack

@sholomar They did. The Republicans shot it down. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_policy_of_the_Joe_Biden_administration?wprov=sfti1#Bipartisan_Border_Security_Bill_(2023-2024) >It was negotiated in a bipartisan manner and initially looked like it had the votes to pass until Donald Trump opposed it, citing that it would boost Biden's reelection chances.[81][79]

Meh, this isn’t too unusual IMO. Once someone is worth $100 million+ they pretty much gain access and connections to all elite institutions, not just the ones they came out of. Like, why do British royals, stock brokers, Hollywood actors and university professors all hang out with each other? They call come from completely different fields. The answer is simply wealth and influence - if you have both all sorts of people will come knocking on your door.

Old systems are breaking down, people are slowly waking up, but this means that those old systems will fight extra hard to legitimise themselves in the minds of the people. It’s why Trump’s approval rating with Republicans went up after the Epstein allegations came out. People have so deeply, deeply bought into the delusion that Trump is a good man that even the most glaring evidence that he isn’t causes a (short-term) spike in popularity as his supporters “rally around the leader” to reinforce that delusion. I see this is a test of faith in basic human decency and material truth. There are so, so many forces attempting to convince people that: - unrepentant greed is good for the world - humans are above nature - certain races are genetically superior to others - America is uniquely favoured by the universe and above “lesser” rules Etc etc. That’s why everything feels so chaotic and nonsensical lately. I say just hold the line. If you were in Europe in 1941, Germany wouldve seemed unstoppable - France had fallen, Britain was on the backfoot, and Hitler was about to take Moscow - but less than four short years later Hitler was dead, the Third Reich in ruins and Nazism/ultranationalism forever discredited on the world stage. Democracy and kindness proved stronger in the end. I don’t know what else to say beyond this. It sometimes fucks with me too. I just hold onto faith and trust that darkness is only as powerful as people believe in it and eventually light always shines through. This, too, shall pass, after all.

No.

Alright. Point taken. I do still suspect he got up to some shady shit with Epstein though.

I’m reminded of Disney cartoons mocking Hitler, Mussolini etc during WW2 to invigorate the populace and improve morale. I can understand the desire to appeal to decorum, truly I do, but sometimes you just have to face the fact that the things some people do truly are that ridiculous / destructive that the only way to get people to wake up is to point them out for the crass buffoons that they are. Donald Trump, Stephen Miller etc are not mere victims of circumstance. They’re adult beings will full agency over their actions. If they wilfully use their power to steal from the economy, promote violent hatred and rape the civil institutions that prevent society from collapsing, fuck em, they should’ve known better. EDIT: Donald Trump is literally a child rapist who uses his power and influence to avoid punishment for his crimes. You can’t get much more foul than that.

This is just what the world needs right more. More gloves-off satire and mockery of the clear insanity that is the Trump regime. The scenes at the Trump White House genuinely reminded me of old early-2000s South Park, lmao. His bullshit needs to highlighted for what it is.

Dude was a globe-trotting crack-smoking escort-banging playboy millionaire, he probably knows a thing or two on how to look fashionable

Their endgame? Collect all the infinity stones to snap NATO out of existence, I imagine.

Is there any way to nuke the global debt system without destroying society as we know it? lol

To be fair most Jews did live in the West before then. Eastern Europe had basically turned into the Jewish homeland.

No, im not sure where you got that. I’m generally pro-Palestine, it’s just that I see a lot of toxicity in the Palestinian side too. I think both the Israeli government and Hamas are scumbags, truthfully. I think violence causes more problems than it solves. And I think both sides misunderstand each other.

Scapegoating. Jews make an easy target. Their religion feels “familiar” to other Abrahamics but not familiar enough that it still seems strange (read: “dangerous.”) The association with Jews and money also makes them another popular target. Then of course there’s the fact that many Jewish communities have historically been protective of their culture (meaning people see them as “suspicious others”) and the whole “chosen people” thing (although I would argue this isn’t unique to Judaism), and you have the perfect recipe for people to make up all sorts of conspiracy theories. Really, at the end of the day, it’s just people projecting their worst fears about themselves onto someone else. Jews are stereotyped as “greedy” and “manipulative”, but look around you and ask what culture isn’t? White people are greedy. Arabs are greedy. Corruption exists in all cultures, the idea that Jewish people are “inherently” worse than any others is just… hateful nonsense. It’s a shame too, because there’s a lot of beauty in the Jewish religion. Go read some Jewish poetry or medieval Jewish theology on the nature of God’s love and it’s hard not to feel moved. I really hope one day humanity gets over its urge to find one group of people to blame for their problems.

The hilarious thing to me is that Trump ran explicitly on releasing the Epstein files. Trump is so used to grifting that he never expected that his grift would one day come back and bite him in the ass. Just further proof you can only lie for so long before the truth catches up with you.

That’s not the point. Even despots need their base’s support to push their authoritarian agenda. If enough of those people turn on Trump, he’ll be hamstrung until 2028 and won’t be able to do whatever he wants (there’s also the possibility if he gets really unpopular he’ll be impeached and removed, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves )