Portraits of Trump in various poses.

He invested $800M in Yahoo! In 2008 and lost it all, among a whole series of other fuck ups. I think he’s an illustration of the rule that if you’re rich enough you don’t have to be very good at anything

What we also don’t need is yet another political dynasty.

Suppressors are a prime example of how Hollywood has shaped so much of the population’s perception of firearms. You even make a great example yourself by calling them silencers.

Suppressors are a great tool for making a loud hobby less likely to damage people’s hearing (yes, even with proper ear protection) and less annoying to everybody else within a few miles. They don’t make guns silent like in the movies. Some countries like the UK even require them or make them readily available because they’re so obviously beneficial.

I thought the old saying was that evil will always triumph over good because good is dumb.

Exactly. I’ll eat my hat if any of the key people gave any consequences at all when all this is over. It will be all, “we have to look forward, not backward.” I wouldn’t be shocked if an elected Democratic president pardoned Trump and his goons so that we can “heal as a nation.”

It’s not that frightening. You can get the app yourself: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pantone-connect/id1491023737

I wouldn’t have known that that rendition of skull and crossbones was Nazi symbology and just learned that today. He has a plausible story for how he got it, but you’re presenting this 1919 thing as a pattern to discredit that story.

If the 1919 tattoo is unrelated (and it sure seems to be), then your pattern of multiple Nazi tattoos falls apart and his story isn’t discredited by it.

Here’s the other tattoo. Big fat nothing burger.

Pro Trail Crew: Maintaining & Sustaining AMC White Mountain Trails since 1919

AMC Professional Trail Crew

The A in ACAB really does mean all

I wouldn’t say that they aren’t doing anything. The number of letters we’ve received asking for donations to the party has sharply ticked up. They’re getting what they really want from the situation.

The last few elections have taught them that they don’t need to win over the progressives. They need to capture that centrist/center-right majority that are looking for a reason to ditch the Republican Party. I expect they’ll lean into that in the mid-terms and in 2028.

[I wish I could end this with /s.]

It works in France because there’s an implication that you guys will start burning everything to the ground if the government doesn’t capitulate. The implication comes from a clear and demonstrated history of actually doing so.

Our history of that is much less clear, especially in recent history.

Yeah, but it isn’t great enough yet. The populace isn’t poor and desperate enough and there’s still room for more corruption in government.

I don’t think he (or his handlers) was ever speaking for Americans as a population when talking about making America great again. He was speaking for the rich and powerful who are yearning for the gilded age, with its company towns and Pinkertons and extreme wealth concentration.

The rise of the middle class and the democratization of rule has been a big bummer for them.

Maybe a coronavirus was the plan for killing off the plebs when they finished hooking up LLMs to the means of production and didn’t need us anymore.

Yes, but it’s all in $Trump

The set of people that are police is entirely contained within the set of people that support Trump. You’re already seeing this with local police helping ICE however they can.

An ethnostate does not simply imply a that a majority of one ethnic group exists. Apartheid is not normal for most states.

An ethnocracy is a type of political structure in which the state apparatus is controlled by a dominant ethnic group (or groups) to further that group’s perceived interests, power, dominance, and resources.

So White Christian Nationalists wanting to have their own ethnostate and exterminate non-whites is bad, but Jewish Nationalists (Zionists) wanting to have their own ethnostate and exterminate non-Jews is ok?