It’s real, but 1000% staged. No way secret service would have let an unvetted Doordash driver approach the front door of the White House, let alone meet the President in person. It’s a publicity stunt.

Despite this, some people still believe it’s an organic moment, as if any Doordash driver would be comfortable just standing there as a political prop for two hours instead of running more deliveries.

Someday everyone will claim to have always opposed him.

This doesn’t hurt Iran at all, it just makes the problem worse for everyone else. All this will accomplish is loading more international pressure on the United States to end the conflict immediately with major concessions to Iran.

Unless they’re a fucking SYNTH!

If you lose to Donald Trump, you are literally unelectable.

This. This is exactly why people pick the guy in the Star Trek shirt.

How convenient for her 🙄

It remains to be seen if Trump can keep a lid on his ego long enough for the whole thing to blow over and Iran to get the concessions they want. The markets are reacting strongly to the news, but I am not convinced that the two week ceasefire will amount to anything if the Trump admin can’t leave the issue well enough alone. We’ll just have to wait and see if the war is more profitable for Trump and his insider trading buddies than it is politically volatile for him.

He’s obviously going to try and spin this as a victory if he does manage to pull out successfully, but it’s important to ask the question - what were the US war goals and did they achieve them? He should not get credit for starting a war and then ending it swiftly, that is the expected outcome. Seems to me that they’ve accomplished nothing and are bragging about cleaning up the mess that they created. Hopefully people will still remember come midterms this year.

Comforting as this angle might be to some, I hate that people are trying to excuse what are clearly a lifetime of personality flaws and intentional bad behavior by removing his agency and attributing it to severe mental illness.

He’s not demented, he’s just an evil piece of shit.

To think that in the interest of electoral fairness, we let this guy be president again instead of putting him in a prison for life where he absolutely belongs.

To any democratic strategists out there who might be reading my post, if you want my attention, start getting your candidate to talk loudly and often about how they will punish Trump and every single member of his administration on Day 1. Lifetime prison sentences for Epstein related coverups. Hangings for treason, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Lengthy prison sentences for fraudsters who are insider trading and former DOGE staffers. Restitution to be paid back to the American taxpayers for the theft and embezzlement of tax dollars. Anything less that that is a mockery of justice.

It was a no-win situation. If he stayed, the Republicans who pretended to care about war being a bad thing would have raked him over the coals about throwing out future FIFA peace prize recipient Donald Trump’s flawless exit strategy.

And we see that when he went through with it anyway what a fucking mess it was, and they blamed him for it imploding anyway.

I’m of the firm opinion that we could have occupied Afghanistan for a century and the result upon exiting would have resulted in the exact same outcome. There were perhaps better ways to do a drawdown that wouldn’t result in leaving billions of dollars worth of military hardware, vehicles and munitions behind for the Taliban to sieze and use for themselves, but it still eventually had to happen and we got what we got.

Democracy can’t be given to someone else. It must be hard fought for and won by the people themselves, or it’s value will never become apparent to them.

I mean, let’s not pretend that the Space Race of the cold war was not primarily motivated by political reasons. USA and USSR only wanted to go there to prove they had the biggest and the best rockets to blow each other up with.

The scientific advancements that came as a result of that heated competition for supremacy was just a happy little bonus.

Better the USSS watch list than the Epstein list.

We’ll move on to the next step once he figures out who to pin the blame on for this. I am guessing he can’t throw Vance under the bus for it since he’s probably on record for saying it was a bad idea. Miller or Hegseth maybe?

I also don’t see a drawdown happening any time soon, but the market manipulation will continue to work for as long as wall street is willing to kick the football. Not that I care what happens to the fat cats, but my 401k portfolio is not looking great right now either.

Heh, I was also banned for the same reason as you - quoting the exact text of the constitution to say what should happen to insurrectionists. My appeal was denied in seconds.

The time before that it was during the presidential debate live watch threads, and there was a portion of the broadcast where the camera dipped away from the speaker, so I wrote “kill the cameraman!”, an obviously non-serious statement in reference to the subreddit /r/killthecameraman, and got banned for that. That was only a three week suspension I think. The mod who banned me also handled my appeal as well, promptly ignored.

I think the idea is the Democratic party should not be platforming “former” Republicans who are only just now coming around to our side after proudly voting for Trump in the last three elections and supporting their racist and fascist agenda. They are, at their very core, the same disingenuous and spiteful people who are leaving a sinking ship.

What people do in the ballot box is their own business, but the best way for Republicans who truly do feel like they were betrayed or deceived by Trump is not for them to apologize and prostrate all day, but for them to take actions that set the course to make things right again. Performatively switching teams and getting championed by the left as being some kind of noble spirit sends the same kind of distasteful message as Kamala Harris and Liz Cheney going up on stage together.

It took me a few read-throughs to get both interpretations, but I feel like the post is mostly in favor of not welcoming Republican defectors, and he wants to debate people who think that’s a good idea (it isn’t).

Crucially, the article seems to leave out who manufactured that robot, and just refers to it as “a robot”.

I assume it’s one of Musk’s, but if that’s not the case it would be nice to know who else in the robotics market is cozying up to the fascist scum.

This is pretty uncontroversial as far as reddit announcements go. They aren’t requiring identity verification.

I don’t know if it’s still the case, but when I was in school for non-exam (i.e. timed) essays, they were split into outlines and drafts, and the drafts were individually graded as a portion of the entire essay grade, so there was a way to gauge the process rather than simply the final submission.

I always found that process frustrating, however, because English was easily my best subject and the teacher would get upset if I turned in a 2nd draft that was identical to the first because I was already basically there. Now that I’m older, I understand the reason for why the teacher structured the lessons in such a way.

I also think that essays in general are a much better metric for measuring true understanding of a topic, at least compared to multiple choice.