Yeah, that’s the saving grace of the UK deal, it’s that it was very visibly a deal just to keep appearances of cooperation and buy time. And the terms of the deal (especially the import of US meats/poultry) indicated this.

Now this with the EU, with the military spending and energy, I’m way more concerned since those are big sensitive areas where the EU is in a very disadvantageous position and might very well cave in all the way with enough pressure, especially when we bring Russia’s energy stuff into the mix.

Of course it was, since he successfully managed to break EU into a deal unfavorable to itself. Especially on the military part.

And because this has way more implications than “EU bends the knee”, since the EU is one of the biggest trading blocs in the world, which now gives Trump way more leverage in bullying other partners.

What happened to standing with Canada, UK, Mexico, and so on? What about all the bravado and strong worded letters? Where’s the action to go along with all that talk?

I really hope EU long term keeps doing the work to be an independent power, otherwise just like now it won’t have anyone else to blame for being susceptible to pressure from outside.

Ashamed to call myself European today, for how easily we caved in. And hopefully new, more reliant leadership comes soon.

This, most of all. While Trump’s main argument is ‘if these files could harm me/us Biden/democrats would have already released them’.

Maybe. Or maybe they don’t want to take you down bad enough that they get dragged along. Seems like a way more plausible scenario to me.

That’s the thing with corruption - once your hands get dirty you lose the ability to judge others for having dirty hands. And wherever one looks all they see is dirty hands or hands buried in the pockets.

The whole system is compromised.

Oh my. Many would do it for free, but with this much incentive perhaps someone more “skilled” might want to get some skin in the game and expedite results.

Under other circumstances I’d find this kind of effort deplorable, but oh well. I’ll label it balance/Newton’s 3rd Law and call it a day. When you have these elephants dancing around with billions of lives there tends to be a push back of some kind, sooner or later.

Even if not now, with this specific effort, someday the bill will have to come due to those involved. Just like Hitler managed to get pretty far in his quest to spread suffering but eventually got his comeuppance. A marathon, not a race, as they say.

Been saying it for years. Sadly there are too many at the bottom mesmerized by the elite propaganda telling them “you can also be like me, if you work hard”, as if they earned billions that way without any dirty tactics along the way, and despite even with success still needing such tactics to take more and more.

Kudos to you. I don’t drink, but I may do my own version of this, and more people should too.

To these so-called “great leaders” who want to leave their idea of a great legacy even if they have to set the world on fire for their ego, few things are more powerful than that ever-present thought that can never go away from the back of their minds:

• “Somewhere there’s these many ‘insignificant’ people just patiently waiting to pop the cork when I bite the dust, and I’ll be dead and they’ll be celebrating it.”

Try as they may to ignore it, their ego will never let it go. And that’s good. Let them know in their core that their legacy won’t be what they want it to be.

Well… If the wife doesn’t wake up it might be better to just let her get her much needed rest, as well as enjoy some peace and quiet at long last. Plus the ambulance/coroner visit might not be cheaper than a shovel from home depot.

Don’t worry if she starts smelling bad after a few days, it’s natural.

As for the cat, figures. With all the chaos they might as well take advantage of the situation and enact their plan to take over mankind as the dominant species.

Every human is created equal. But then again - those who believe themselves above other humans and actively hate them and try to strip their freedom away (through race, money, etc) - those I do deem to be less than human, and below me and anyone wanting to live in peace.

The hateful will always have reasons to hate, they actively look for them in everything and base their lives completely on their misery, and their ability to spread it to others like a plague.

If you can’t live in a world with people different from you, and you feel the need to harm them, maybe instead of killing them, it’d be easier to get rid of you instead.

No one does, judging by the look of that one. 🤫

Not only that, demand reinforced impartial safeguards against potential electoral rigging.

The wolf must not guard the hen house, and there’s already a lot of weird stuff regarding the last election from said wolf.

Aww… There’s daddy’s pwetty boy. Yesh you awe, yesh you awe!

Now go say some bad words to someone so they know how much of a big bad boy you are now.

I bet if that was that easy he and most of the administration would already be 6 under, with the increasing amount of people with nothing to lose.

They know what they’re doing, they know they’re wrong and they’re hated. They handpick and filter the crowds through various means.

The only real time someone got an ‘honest’ shot at Trump was at that fateful rally where a far-right guy suspiciously got to spend hour-plus at a nearby rooftop, completely noticed and without action from security. And then the miraculous ‘shot’ that granted Trump near-martyrdom as God’s chosen representative before his cult. Funny all things considered.

So, according to Trump after he’s told that number, “millions and millions and millions, a parade like you’ve never seen! Streets overflowing! Yuge! Tremendous! The biggest and bestest parade of all time, I’d say! Putin and Kim were seeing it on their big screens, they called me just to tell me how beautiful of a parade mine was, and asked for advice on how to improve theirs! - I just know they must’ve had tears in their eyes seeing my big beautiful parade”.

All while frantically playing his imaginary accordion. 🤡

Yup. Just saw it and came back to check if someone had already replied the obvious before I could. Thank you.

What a joke of a justice system. Things are where they are because as slow as Fat Blob Trump is, he’s still faster than the law. By the time they finally decide to actually state his actions are illegal it’ll be last year’s news already, while another judge’s order gets paused on the latest scandal of the day.

If the law were any good neither him or his ilk would even get the chance to run a first term. Because many of them would be jailed for all sorts of crimes, and the rest wouldn’t dare to act with fear of the consequences. Weak men create hard times.

Lemme guess. He’s gonna appeal and another judge will pause this decision while they take their time to review the appeal, because Trump shows daily how deserving he is of the benefit of the doubt.

Meanwhile things keep escalating and people get hurt.

Right?

Keep giving fingers, keep losing arms. Trump relies on shortsightedness to advance, and there’s plenty to go around. You falter, he swallows you whole before you can even react. Be cordial, get taken advantage of, like a sucker. 100 out of 100 times. Guaranteed.

I’m not even joking when I say some individual humans, much like cells in a person, start becoming severely harmful to the whole organism - attempting to spread chaos across the whole body.

We have several of these “human-shaped cancer cells” around the globe, and unmistakably, Trump is one of them.

Him, Musk, Putin and the whole lot of them who think themselves Gods on Earth are the species’ very cancer manifest.

While I believe this may very well be the case (there sure are big red signs pointing to it, beginning with Musk) - it won’t do much unless there’s hard undeniable proof. And I mean, the kind of unignorable nuclear bombshell where they start scrambling and telling on each other to save their sorry behinds as a last ditch effort to salvage anything they can.

And even then hardcore MAGA will still call it fake and in their desperation go even crazier before anyone has a chance to take them out of power.

Besides, “every accusation is a confession”, as if by accusing their opposition of doing something it gave them the justification of “they did it so we are free to as well”. You know damn well Trump wasn’t going to leave it to fate a second time, especially after failling his insurrection to stay in power the first time.

The definition of empathy: “the ability to share someone else’s feelings or experiences by imagining what it would be like to be in that person’s situation”

Yes. By definition, if you are able to feel empathy - I.e., if you can put yourself in another person’s shoes - you wouldn’t behave like any sycophant in the world, from Trump and his hateful MAGA’s, to Putin, to Netanyahu, to Musk, and each and every single agent of chaos and unchecked greed attempting to mess around with mankind as if they were self-proclaimed messiahs and not the representation of humanity’s own cancer cells.

His observations were correct and can be applied to many situations and places worldwide. We are held back by hate and lack of empathy. We are unable to learn from the mistakes of our ancestors.

It’s not about fighting for “my (twisted) view” of a fair world. It’s about me finally having the chance to act upon my wet dreams of power and cosplaying as the ‘badass’ image I always wanted to be, and how empowering it is to be able to pick on the weak.

I bet you, these are only ‘cosplaying’ as elite soldiers fighting an imaginary war because cosplaying as superman or batman would be far too obvious and non-threatening in real life - seriously, who wouldn’t laugh at these clowns who think they’re serious shit? Otherwise you’d absolutely see the barely-laughable Justice League or the wannabe Avengers going down the street dishing out ‘justice’ cartoon-style.

Peace and Justice are only as strong as the willingness to recognize and punish those who break the rules. If there’s no consequences for breaking the law all of those pretty values aren’t worth anything, and anarchy ensues.

Wait, I’m allowed to say no? I didn’t need to marry him? That’s not what my bro said when he proposed! I should divorce him, but well… Too late now to turn back. 💀