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Dubious wrote: ↑Sat Aug 29, 2026 8:35 pm Your enviable president, Donald Trump, resistance to whom you equate as treason to the country, will be forever known as the most egregiously destructive President in the history of the U.S., itself treasonous with followers like you in its wake. To think that anybody so ignorant, unstable and thoroughly disgusting in every respect for the world to see could ever be president has many wondering, inside and outside the country, what the hell is going on!

Having very clearly stated my own position on the advent of Donald Trump, and my dissatisfaction with his disregard for important campaign promises, but having consistently maintained a position of ‘distance’ so that I could observe and understand what is really going on socially, economically and politically, the position I have, dearest Dubious, is a dozen times more useful and coherent than yours which is, as you presented, encapsulated in a strange and pathetic monologue by Paul Kruger. What is the message there? Trump is Adolf Hitler. Et voilà.

I do not have more time nor interest to delve into these amazing political hallucinations and profound psychological projections, I will yet recommend that you and you-plural attempt to do so. I can outline good reasons why, and I can jump-start the process, but I cannot cure you of your deeply rooted issues. And I fear that a man of your age, who writes the same post over and over and over again without variation, will not be able to grow or change.

You are very wrong to assess Trump as you do. I am not versed on the details of the history of the American presidency but I have read those who are. And though Trump is beyond any doubt “problematic”, it is fairly obvious that his immediate predecessor did far greater and tangible damage to the nation by the fantastic intentional irresponsibility of allowing a massive flood of many many millions of foreigners into the country with an intention of gaining political control by way of altering the demographic of the nation. Because you are not a citizen, you jerk, you do not really give a flying f*** about the country nor do you know it. You are all pose, Dubious, and very transparent.

You have some problem with how I talk to you? A directness and honesty in saying exactly what I mean? You poor sensitive child! How I pity the agonies you suffer at my hand!

itself treasonous with followers like you in its wake

More truthfully, dearest Dubious, you have no basis at all from which to offer any opinion at all about either patriotism or treason. Your mouth is similar in effect to your bowels. You’ve been ‘relieving yourself’ about things you have no knowledge and literally no interest. Except insofar as you participate in the mass Three Minute Hate. It is I guess psychological and semi-cathartic unloading. I recommend that you confine that activity to your daily emparkment on your toilet. Evacuate yourself there. As far as your discourse goes, you contribute nothing.

After having read only one sentence I decided there was no point in further reading or looking. Shit should be flushed and you've certainly produced a mountain of it lately with no place to go that can be called private. Friendly advice; you should try to control the output instead of continuously recyling it in public...aside which, there aren't many who appreciate your incessantly long regurgitated verbal poop endeavors which regularly spills over like an E. coli inundation.

Calm down, Dubious. You are still avidly loved.

And you just borrowed my whole line! I am complaining to the powers that be! You will hear more from me, Sir!

Dubious wrote: ↑Sun Aug 30, 2026 1:47 pm

Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Sun Aug 30, 2026 11:18 am...

After having read only one sentence I decided there was no point in further reading or looking. Shit should be flushed and you've certainly produced a mountain of it lately with no place to go that can be called private. Friendly advice; you should try to control the output instead of continuously recyling it in public...aside which, there aren't many who appreciate your incessantly long regurgitated verbal poop endeavors which regularly spills over like an E. coli inundation.

I agree! Explosive mental diarrhea. It all should be flushed!

Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Sun Aug 30, 2026 11:18 am [Biden] did far greater and tangible damage to the nation by the fantastic intentional irresponsibility of allowing a massive flood of many many millions of foreigners into the country …

Yeah, that’s a right wing lie.

I’m surprised that you didn’t check before doing a Nick Fuentes with it. Is that naïve of me?

mickthinks wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2026 8:32 pm Yeah, that’s a right wing lie.

I think the very lowest “official” estimate is 6.5 million. But others put estimates higher. Bovino came on Tucker’s show with what seemed to me an impossibly high number. All I can do is ‘guess intuitively’ and suppose that it is likely a minimum of 15 million. But it is not impossible that it is more. However I know of no source for accurate information.

I’m surprised that you didn’t check before doing a Nick Fuentes with it. Is that naïve of me?

Where would I check? Its Going Down?

As to Trump, I watched Meershiemer on Chris Hedges express his view that Trump’s Iran blunder was the worst policy blunder likely in the history of the US. And the consequences are yet to arrive.

What about Abby Martin? I admit that I admire her spark. (And I would genuinely like to mate with her. BTW which way do you roll, Mick?)

Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Sun Aug 30, 2026 11:18 am And though Trump is beyond any doubt “problematic”, it is fairly obvious that his immediate predecessor did far greater and tangible damage to the nation by the fantastic intentional irresponsibility of allowing a massive flood of many many millions of foreigners into the country with an intention of gaining political control by way of altering the demographic of the nation.

Will the bullshit parade by these demented MAGA maggots never end?

When combining total border releases, parole programs, and estimated gotaways, immigration researchers and federal agencies calculate that roughly 5.5 million to 6.5 million unauthorized or temporary-status migrants entered or were admitted into the interior of the U.S. during Biden's tenure, alongside standard annual legal immigration totals.

Not sure if a MAGA brain can figure out how many millions there are in many many millions.

Dubious wrote: ↑Tue Sep 01, 2026 1:25 am

Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Sun Aug 30, 2026 11:18 am And though Trump is beyond any doubt “problematic”, it is fairly obvious that his immediate predecessor did far greater and tangible damage to the nation by the fantastic intentional irresponsibility of allowing a massive flood of many many millions of foreigners into the country with an intention of gaining political control by way of altering the demographic of the nation.

Will the bullshit parade by these demented MAGA maggots never end?

When combining total border releases, parole programs, and estimated gotaways, immigration researchers and federal agencies calculate that roughly 5.5 million to 6.5 million unauthorized or temporary-status migrants entered or were admitted into the interior of the U.S. during Biden's tenure, alongside standard annual legal immigration totals.

Not sure if a MAGA brain can figure out how many millions there are in many many millions.

I’ve been fiddling with Meta’s AI by way of WhatsApp. I asked it “If I use the phrase “many many millions” what is the minimum that would be taken to mean? The answer is here:

Linguistically, it's an intensifier stacking.

- *"a million"* = 1
- *"millions"* = at least 2
- *"many millions"* = not 2 or 3, that's "a couple / few million." "Many" means more than a few. So minimum *4 million.*
- *"many, many millions"* = you doubled the intensifier because "many millions" wasn't enough. So you're saying "many times many."

If you're being literal/pedantic: minimum is *4 million*.

If you're being how a normal person hears it: *10 million+*.

No native speaker says "many many millions" for 4 or 5 million. They say that when they mean 10, 20, 30 million and don't want to commit to an exact number.

If you say it in a courtroom or to a fact-checker, they will hear it as "at least 10 million."

Dubious wrote: ↑Tue Sep 01, 2026 1:25 am

Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Sun Aug 30, 2026 11:18 am And though Trump is beyond any doubt “problematic”, it is fairly obvious that his immediate predecessor did far greater and tangible damage to the nation by the fantastic intentional irresponsibility of allowing a massive flood of many many millions of foreigners into the country with an intention of gaining political control by way of altering the demographic of the nation.

Will the bullshit parade by these demented MAGA maggots never end?

Maybe it's some kind of brain worm that destroys awareness.

Personally, I prefer hard-working decent people -- regardless of their origins or skin color -- as opposed to self-serving white men who abuse and destroy in service to their demented egos. As for all of those supposed 'rapists' coming into the country... take a look at the rapists and child-molesters within American families and churches and schools and business. White men who can't control themselves... white men who think they're superior to others... white men who cowardly dress up in costumes and march around with hate... white men who impose their self-righteous delusions on everyone else... white men who support someone just like them to lead this country. How many millions do you suppose there are of them? They are our most significant enemy. DEPORT THEM !!! Get all abusive men out of this country, and we'll be a lot better for it.

Lacewing wrote: ↑Tue Sep 01, 2026 5:27 am

Dubious wrote: ↑Tue Sep 01, 2026 1:25 am

Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Sun Aug 30, 2026 11:18 am And though Trump is beyond any doubt “problematic”, it is fairly obvious that his immediate predecessor did far greater and tangible damage to the nation by the fantastic intentional irresponsibility of allowing a massive flood of many many millions of foreigners into the country with an intention of gaining political control by way of altering the demographic of the nation.

Will the bullshit parade by these demented MAGA maggots never end?

Maybe it's some kind of brain worm that destroys awareness.

Personally, I prefer hard-working decent people -- regardless of their origins or skin color -- as opposed to self-serving white men who abuse and destroy in service to their demented egos. As for all of those supposed 'rapists' coming into the country... take a look at the rapists and child-molesters within American families and churches and schools and business. White men who can't control themselves... white men who think they're superior to others... white men who cowardly dress up in costumes and march around with hate... white men who impose their self-righteous delusions on everyone else... white men who support someone just like them to lead this country. How many millions do you suppose there are of them? They are our most significant enemy. DEPORT THEM !!! Get all abusive men out of this country, and we'll be a lot better for it.

That's a fact. The world would be so much better without Trump and his supporters. All they do is bring degeneration and depravity to the table. And they don't care. You can't reason with them. They're a human plague. All they want to do is create destruction and dysfunction. No idea how that many whites became that trashy. Hopefully, they all go to hell when they die. The world needs justice now.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Tue Sep 01, 2026 11:01 pm They're a human plague.

Good description.

A plague of ignorance that destroys everything in its path... which threatens themselves too.

Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Sat Aug 29, 2026 1:39 pm

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Fri Aug 28, 2026 10:37 pm Since I believe it to be unjust to launch a surprise attack on another country, and the US did just that, am I wrong to conclude that the attack on Iran was an unjust act? Or am I wrong that it would be unjust for Iran to do the same thing to us (in effect justifying Iran to do such an attack against us)?

I think you will have to explain more of the origin of your “ethic”. How would it fit with realpolitik or theorists like von Clausewitz or Sun Zsu? In a time of war, what are the “rules”?

Israel’s political philosophy is “Rise and kill first”:

The Talmud says: “If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first.” This instinct to take every measure, even the most aggressive, to defend the Jewish people is hardwired into Israel’s DNA. From the very beginning of its statehood in 1948, protecting the nation from harm has been the responsibility of its intelligence community and armed services, and there is one weapon in their vast arsenal that they have relied upon to thwart the most serious threats: Targeted assassinations have been used countless times, on enemies large and small, sometimes in response to attacks against the Israeli people and sometimes preemptively.

In this page-turning, eye-opening book, journalist and military analyst Ronen Bergman—praised by David Remnick as “arguably [Israel’s] best investigative reporter”—offers a riveting inside account of the targeted killing programs: their successes, their failures, and the moral and political price exacted on the men and women who approved and carried out the missions.

Bergman has gained the exceedingly rare cooperation of many current and former members of the Israeli government, including Prime Ministers Shimon Peres, Ehud Barak, Ariel Sharon, and Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as high-level figures in the country’s military and intelligence services: the IDF (Israel Defense Forces), the Mossad (the world’s most feared intelligence agency), Caesarea (a “Mossad within the Mossad” that carries out attacks on the highest-value targets), and the Shin Bet (an internal security service that implemented the largest targeted assassination campaign ever, in order to stop what had once appeared to be unstoppable: suicide terrorism).

Including never-before-reported, behind-the-curtain accounts of key operations, and based on hundreds of on-the-record interviews and thousands of files to which Bergman has gotten exclusive access over his decades of reporting, Rise and Kill First brings us deep into the heart of Israel’s most secret activities. Bergman traces, from statehood to the present, the gripping events and thorny ethical questions underlying Israel’s targeted killing campaign, which has shaped the Israeli nation, the Middle East, and the larger world.

Is it “wrong” for Iran to hold a military position and to use all means at its disposal to retaliate against both Israel and the US? That would be a pretty absurd fantasy, no?

You know, I have many criticisms of Zionism (the movement to establish a Jewish state) and I am aware that long long ago it was critiqued as likely creating many problems for Jewry. Those problems are now extremely manifest. And you must understand (“it must be understood”) that Israel, given its trajectory, is locked into a path that must necessarily involve preemptive assassination. For this reason the insinuation that ‘Israel killed Charlie Kirk” gains coherency in the minds of those falling away from ‘blind support of Israel”.

But that does not mean that I cannot understand Israel’s struggle, nor the operations of its military/intelligence sector.

Yes. We're at war now, thanks to Trump. And Congress and the citizens of the US didn't vote for it. The grotesque part is the cordial posturing as you send us all into the valley of your moral depravity. Immoral people like you are so nice, as you're about to lead us into armageddon. A smile on your face and not a shred of human decency. How you sleep at night is a wonder.

Crazy Iranian leaders on one side and crazy American leaders on the other. Every sane person in Iran and every sane person in the US is caught in the middle because both of our governments are run by insane fanatics who have no care in the world about what happens to other innocent human beings around them.