Empire in Decline

[sedrosken]

Well, this certainly isn't concerning at all.

 

[Mercutio]

"This page does not exist." I can't wait until that applies to the rest of Twitter as well.

 

[sedrosken]

It was a tweet from OSINTdefender with the following:

Reddit, Meta, and Google voluntarily “complied with some of the requests” from Homeland Security for identifying details of users critical of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has expanded its efforts to identify Americans who oppose Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in recent months, sending tech companies, including Google, Reddit, Discord and Meta, who owns both Facebook and Instagram, hundreds of administrative subpoenas which consist of legal requests for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize ongoing immigration operations by the Trump Administration, four government officials and tech employees privy to the requests have told the New York Times.

 

[Mercutio]

I will leave this here without additional comment.

 

[Gödel]

Donald Trump has been a tariffic president.

From Trump throws a temper tantrum after tariff loss in the Supreme Court:

At a hastily called press conference, an agitated Trump railed against the conservative Roberts and two of the courts other conservatives, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett, both Trump appointees.​

"They're just being fools and lapdogs for the RINOs and the radical left Democrats," Trump said, using the apparently derisive acronym for "Republicans in name only."​

And that was hardly all. Trump called the three conservatives "disloyal, unpatriotic," and at one point he launched into a rant about how the court should have invalidated the election results in 2020, which Trump lost to Joe Biden.​

Always the circumspect and reasonable leader of (all) the people, by (all) the people, for (all) the people. (With a few exceptions, like his failed election steal in 2020, which big lie he keeps perpetuating.)

Maybe he should launch an ICE-y Sturmabteilung thug/goon mob attack on the Supreme Court, like he did on Congress in 2021. But also, amend the constitution – there should be only one branch of the federal government, and his name is Donald.

 

[Mercutio]

Chicago named its newest Snowplow Abolish ICE.

 

[Chewy509]

The "President of Peace" has just started a new war...

I just watched his speech on the declaration of the war. I'm lost for words.

Various news outlets are reporting key people in the Iran leadership have been killed in the initial strikes.

 

[jtr1962]

Now oil prices will spike and the markets will tank. Fun times ahead.

 

[Mercutio]

A decapitation strike on a reactionary religious state is not going to end well for anyone. This is just going to turn into another Afghanistan. We'll have to occupy and then spend decades and trillions dealing with bombs and drone strikes that kill a few of our soldiers a week until we decide to pull out, whereupon they'll immediately go back to trying to build a nuke, only with the motivation of certainty that they need it for self determination.

But hey, we made Israel happy.
And while we're at it, Trump said he deserves a third term because Democrats cheated him out of his second term (not the one he's serving now, they one he didn't get in 2020), and during his State of the Union speech also intimated that the only time any Democrat wins any election, it is by cheating.

There is no chance the US is going to have free and fair elections in 2026.

 

[Gödel]

Oh, and as I just Emailed some friends about that warmongerer,

What's One More War?​

I'm betting Trump will invade Cuba within a year.

He's already "saber rattling" about it ("friendly takeover" - what's a little occupation between friends [they were asking for it]?).

That should be a much easier war to win than the one against Iran, and it won't effect the price of gas as badly.