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drunkenshoe wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2026 7:45 pm Pentagon Threatened the Pope After He Criticized Trump - It was so bad that Pope Leo changed his plans to travel to the U.S.
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Well, we can't expect dickheads to get along.

Melania should "escort" her criminal husband out of the Whitehouse. Emails and Pics of them all partying it up with Epstein have been hanging around for 20 years. Why doesn't they all just STFU, release the files and go after the perps?

Because they're the perps.

Cassia wrote: Fri Apr 10, 2026 3:32 am Melania should "escort" her criminal husband out of the Whitehouse. Emails and Pics of them all partying it up with Epstein have been hanging around for 20 years. Why doesn't they all just STFU, release the files and go after the perps?

When I saw that piece of news I automatically thought: OK. Another wave of files is coming. ooof

Cassia wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2026 9:27 pm

drunkenshoe wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2026 7:45 pm Pentagon Threatened the Pope After He Criticized Trump - It was so bad that Pope Leo changed his plans to travel to the U.S.
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Well, we can't expect dickheads to get along.

Sure, yeah. But threatening a major office to scare enough not even travel to the land is alarming, don't you think? It's not something about saying 'fuck you' to papacy on principle thing. It's a threat. It's illegal to begin with.

I just hope that maybe, people who are bound to this cult by religious ties would part with them, and stop supporting. It's too much to expect, isn2t it?

Hydra009 wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2026 4:31 pm US draft registration to be automatic (but not voting registration)

Can they exploit this legally? I mean, let's say, the worst scenario is making a patsy attack to legitimize ringing the emergency bell. Nation is at risk! Something like 9/11? Maybe, no need for something that devastating though at this point. You get what I mean. FFS they declared a war, I wouldn't put anything past these people and their ilk anywhere. That kind of one stone wold hit a lots of birds, all around.

The situation is similar to Russia in that technically, the President can do whatever, but there'd be a huge pushback on any sort of mass mobilization or ground operation. Especially with mounting casualties. Any President doing that would be torn apart in the next election. Not even Trump is immune.

That's why the USA normally relies on drone/air/missile strikes and tries to avoid ground operations or calling people up.

Thanks, Hydra. I'm just worried about the cult making people accept these kind of corrected stuff, under the scheme of returning to 'golden oldies' psychology. There are too many people to swallow that bullshit anywhere.

Yeah, there are about 20-30% of people here who are 100% addicted to the bullshit and are too dumb/prideful to see reality. They would fully support any horrible thing so long as it's other people being hurt, again similar to the Russians.

Fortunately, lots of Americans see right through the bullshit and are not okay with any of this stuff. They're in the majority, but they feel like they're a lone voice in the wilderness due to America's mass media perversely echoing billionaire/fascist viewpoints instead of normal prople. Protests are important not only to attempt to affect change but also to show people that they're not alone in their skepticism of military adventurism in the Middle East, which has historically not worked out so well.

drunkenshoe wrote: Sat Apr 11, 2026 8:06 am Thanks, Hydra. I'm just worried about the cult making people accept these kind of corrected stuff, under the scheme of returning to 'golden oldies' psychology. There are too many people to swallow that bullshit anywhere.

Agree totally. I have this old dear friend who went down the Fox news, MAGA rabbit hole. She barely resembles the person I once knew. Calls me to complain about her lib-tard (yet highly intelligent, functional) daughter. I listen and interject periodically to kindly counter her delusions. I avoided her for a few years during covid but then I was thinking perhaps a civil war is not a great solution. We did that already, but the racists are still here. Never really got over it. She actually stopped attending her evangelical, pro-Trump church. Said the people were assholes. You think? History will not look back kindly on these Christo-national morons.