Walker88

I'm not religious, but if I had to choose, I'd pick Satan over anyone's deity. I mean, that Satan guy is supposed to be the epitome of evil, but all I ever hear is that it's him who makes a person cheat on their spouse or steal money or tell a lie. Deities, on the other hand, are supposedly omnipotent and all loving, but they bring tsunamis and earthquakes and childhood cancer. Compared to any god, Satan is a mere posseur when it comes to evil.

India is nice, but only if you live like an 18th Century Maharajah. I lived a few years in the Chanakyapuri area of Delhi. It's wildly expensive, but safe. I had a household staff of cooks, cleaners, gardeners and security. I did not have to do the food shopping or cooking, and that is a huge plus. In all my time there, I did not get Delhi Belly even once. Loved the food. I became quite close to my staff, and the women shared their experiences growing up female in one of the lower castes. It ain't pretty. Opportunity for them was minimal, despite their above average intellect. The rape stories are real. Gang rape is a national sport, more than cricket. While I did some of my own driving, I did have a driver. Traffic is batsh!t crazy. One way roads merely mean you only go one way at a time. The guy coming at you full speed is also only going one way; it just happens to be at you. Stop at a traffic light, and a beggar suffering from leprosy, half his face missing, will come up to your window with a fingerless hand out. Cows have the right of way, even if a tuk tuk of schoolgirls is coming at a truck. Cow wins, schoolgirls lose. There's a massive tool booth area just outside Delhi in Gurgoan. I once saw a guy in a Suzuki car coming through the wrong way. I assume he thought "I go that way, I pay; I come this way, they pay me." I did a lot of time in Rajasthan, and loved Jodhpur and Jaisalmer. Getting there by road is "interesting", as the roads mostly suck and trucks or camel carts go wherever they want. Coming once from Chandagarh to Delhi, on an otherwise good road, I came across a 20+ car pile up, owing to bad fog and cars going the wrong way. Body parts strewn all over the road. It barely made page 20 of the Times of India, though I'd guess 15-30 deaths, going by body parts I counted. People do do their business wherever they are. I remember being in a tuk tuk heading to my guest house in Jodhpur. The alley was maybe 7 feet wide. Stuck in traffic for a moment, a mother parked he teen daughter just outside their hovel, the girls butt aimed at me, as she proceeded to do a huge #2 maybe two feet from my face. It wasn't an editorial comment on me; it was just how things are done. Her business fell in a drain that ran along the alley, washed away by bathing water and urine from neighbors. I also did Himachal Pradesh. If there is one place I would have enjoyed spending a year or two as a young adult, it would have been Manali, in the foothills of the Himalayas. It's more Buddhist than Hindu, the air is glorious, and there's a smell of Deodar trees in the wind, which are apparently a type of cedar. A wild few hour ride---if you survive---gets you to Rohtang Pass, at about 13,000 feet. The bottom of the drive is strewn with cars and buses that didn't make the 180 degree turns on dirt roads with no guardrails and 1000+ meter drops. Not sure I'd do it again, but India was great. The caveat I noted at the start as you'd better be sinfully rich, because living comfortably in India takes more than Pebble Beach kind of money.

A TV sitcom starring POTUS would have this in their promo: "When willful ignorance is your modus operandi, hijinks ensue."

It's just rational and intelligent people owning the MAGAs. Guys like the OP live rent free in the heads of MAGA members. Like jihadis upset by Danish cartoonists, they have to come defend their messiah if they see blasphemy.

Let's start with the terrorists who stormed the US Capitol on 6 Jan 2021. They beat 140 cops and set up a gallows to hang the VP. They should have been Babbitized that day. Instead, the convicted felon pardoned them. Obviously he hates law enforcement and democracy, as he fomented the entire terrorist attack. Actually, let's start with the convicted felon himself, if committing felonies is the excuse. Bag him and send him to that prison in El Salvador. No due process, just bag and send.

I thought your messiah said that we'd all have so much money we wouldn't even know what to buy? Funny now how Recession and economic decline are a plus. Well, if you really believe that, I understand why POTUS could be your hero, because if anybody can make a huge mess of what was a robust economy under Biden, it's POTUS47. Anybody who can bankrupt 5 casinos and an iconic hotel is a natural born economic cyclone.

In addition, Inflation Expectations hit the highest rate since 1981. The guy who campaigned on his supposed ability to bring down prices isn't fooling anybody. Oh, and eggs hit an all time high price, despite Bird Flu now somewhat under control.

As you undoubtedly know, MAGAs are losers. They weren't tops in their class, nor star athletes, they didn't date the prom queen, and as adults they have achieved next to nothing and lived mediocre, nondescript, banal lives. They have spent their entire existence jealous of the "cool kids" in school, and they never outgrew that childishness. They have woeful insecurity complexes. POTUS came along and sang his siren song. Their failures were some other person's fault, not their own. Weaklings that they are, they bought into his lie and his con (to get their votes). It's "lefties" fault, or women, or Blacks, or some other minority. Rather than accept their own responsibility, they jumped in. They live vicariously through him, too stupid to understand he thinks they are losers, but he used them solely to get the votes he needed to win. They think they are "owning the libs", when they are owned, used and abused by their messiah. Pitiful. Look at the goobers who stormed the Capitol on 6 Jan 2021....fatties, dumbos, "Camp Auschwitz" types or QAnon Shaman. Their collective IQ is turnip level. They do not understand actual American ideals, but absorb their talking points from MAGA media like Fox and Newsmax. His rallies are similarly filled with bozos and clowns, people so desperate for anything positive in their miserable lives that pie-in-the-sky nonsense is the only hope they have, false as it is. Alexander Hamilton saw both MAGAs and POTUS coming, as he wrote in the Federalist Papers: “The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion… When a man unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, despotic in his ordinary demeanor---known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty---when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity---to join in the cry of danger to liberty---to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government and bringing it under suspicion---to flatter and fall in with all the nonsense of the zealots of the day---it may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may ‘ride the storm and direct the whirlwind’” H.L. Mencken saw MAGAs coming a hundred years ago, when he wrote: "As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

No, it does not. Sen Tillis is one of the few R Senators who is not a MAGA sycophant. It is just as likely the lunatic was a MAGA. Last week, in a confirmation Hearing for the new Trade Rep, Sen Tillis asked nominee Greer about the flip flop on tariffs and what the actual intent is. Greer gave the silly MAGA response, to which Tillis replied: "I just want to know who to choke if this fails."

It passed in the House in May, 1929 BEFORE the October crash. It passed the Senate in early 1930, and was signed into law by Hoover in June 1930. This is similar to how POTUS enacted his tariffs, albeit Smoot Hawley did flip flop. The US market began to fall once POTUS started barking incessantly about his tariff plan, even though the tariffs did not take effect until this week. The market was already down a lot in anticipation. POTUS caved yesterday, as he got too much pressure from financial markets and certain market players, such as Bill Ackman and Jamie Dimon. Smoot-Hawley took a Recession and turned it into a Depression. POTUS will be instrumental in history repeating, unless he caves again.

It's going to be fun to watch POTUS gag when China and Gov Gavin Newsom announce their own separate trade deal. 39 million California consumers are an attractive market. That's more consumers than ND, SD, WY, AK, AR, MS, WV, TN, KY, IA, NE, NV, UT, ID, KS, MT and AL combined.

Back in November I said POTUS47 would cause a 20% drop in the market. Cult members here gave it the thumbs down, but of course that's their sycophancy evidencing itself. I kind of thought it would take him until summer to be that bad, but he is such a "overachiever" he's way ahead of schedule. He might even do a 40% drop in his first year. If anyone can eff things up that much, it's him. I still think Biden's last full month (Dec 2024) represents a generational high similar to 1929 US (until 1954) and 1989 Japan (until 2024). I saw POTUS boast about egg prices two days ago. I guess he doesn't eat eggs, because here's reality: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/egg-prices-continue-increase-despite-124116007.html Record high egg prices. Groceries, groceries, groceries....what was that rant about? The guy is losing it. Oh, and yesterday was little more than a dead cat bounce. If he could keep his flapper shut for a day, there might be a little more recovery and a chance to leg out of positions, but he won't. Mr Flip Flop...the market is getting sick of it. I also wouldn't get hopes up on a trade deal. The Us-Canada-Mexican deal in term 1 took 2 years to put together, and the trade rep called that "breakneck speed". How long is it going to take to do 184 trade deals? POTUS is going to cave again if the market resumes its tanking.

POTUS will cave first, when prices at places MAGAs shop, like Walmart, double. He either caved last night, or else he and his buddies played the market for personal gain. China can start unloading its UST holdings, as well as "nationalize" US investments in China, which will have POTUS' phone ringing off the hook from angry CEOs. China holds the cards. By the way, isn't it sweet of POTUS to sign that EO yesterday authorizing him to prosecute critics? What is Free Speech when you have lese majeste laws by decree.

Please do. I'll take the other side of that bet. Riddle me this: What possible reason did Campaign Manager Paul Manafort have to go to Spain to meet GRU asset Konstantin Kilimnik, where he gave him internal polling data from the campaign. Kilimnik then passed the data to the GRU's Internet Research Agency, who then microtargeted voters in key swing States like MI, WI and PA, with fake stories about Hillary and others? The Republican-led SSCI issued the report where they noted this Kilimnik contact. Russia cooperation was 100% real.

Read the quote you posted. What possible other explanation is there? Even a MAGA should sometimes be able to see reality. Note the look on the female pathology expert's face. You may also have forgotten that when media called him out on that, the White House issued a statement saying he was just joking. A pandemic is ravaging the world, but a President thinks it's a joke? It's the same nonsense with his siding with Putin in Helsinki. After being called out on his statement about "I don't know why he would", the WH "corrected" his statement by saying he meant "wouldn't". MAGAs believe every lie the guy spews, even when they conflict, like "He declassified all those documents with his mind", later fol.lowed by "The FBI planted them". Oh, though this is minor and just shows his woeful insecurity, his Sharpie to include Alabama in the path of hurricane Maria, when the National Weather did not include Alabama.

It's all true. 100%. Facts are anathema to MAGAs. MAGAs say critics have to make up stuff about their messiah. Make up? Like he stole hundreds of highly classified documents and lied about returning them? FACT That he called his goobers to DC for 6 Jan 2021, Tweeting "It'll be WILD!" in order to try to stop the certification. Oh, maybe you have another excuse? That he called the GA SecState and pressured him to alter the voting records? That he didn't know his goobers would engage in wanton violence at the Capitol, after his rant where he said "fight" 34 times and "peaceful" just once? Or maybe you're admitting he is so stupid he couldn't have guessed a mob of clowns frothing at the mouth might be violent? I don't know if he assaulted E Jean Carroll, but a jury of his peers said he did. I did see the evidence of the bank and insurance fraud related to the Stormy payoff and his various tax filings and loan or insurance applications, and I cannot imagine there is any answer other than fraud. I know he was found guilty of charity fraud, where, among other things, he used donations to commission a painting of himself. He and his spawn are barred from charity activities. No need to make stuff up. He is a serial felon, and that has already been proven by one of the few trials he could not stop. Had the classified doc case gone to trial, he could have been jailed for the rest of his miserable life.

You must have missed this. ^

We're not Danish Cartoonists, so the MAGA-jihadis here can relax. I know they live vicariously through him and take it personally when anyone suggests the clown is anything other than the Second Coming, but you have to accept that you're a cult, and if there is a "syndrome" it's cult members who suffer from it.

DISINFECTANT, not bleach. Watch the video. Enter reality.

LOL! Even you could be a "billionaire" if daddy gave you the allowance he got from age 3, co-signed all your loans, and left you the inheritance he got when dad died. The only actual success he has had was his Game Show, and that was the invention of Mark Burnett. Maybe his campaign finance vehicle masquerading as a social media site gave him some money, but everything else is living on borrowing. Oh, and he LOST in 2020. It was in all the papers. ANd courts. And the Earth is round. Don't worry, you won't fall off the edge.

He's an idiot. He's also willfully ignorant. (Daddy got him into Wharton; I turned down Wharton, as well as Harvard B-school. I'd be happy to sit down with him and take an IQ test. Want to bet on who wins?) Getting elected twice? I just look at the IQ Bell Curve, and realize half of it is below the mean, and those people can vote. Kim Kardashian is richer than you. What is her "talent"? Justin Bieber sells millions of records...Baby, baby, baby, oooh! There's no accounting for taste. As for his "success", that's daddy. Look at his tax returns before he became a Game Show Host. Loss, loss, loss----and not fancy RE accounting gimmicks, genuine losses. Daddy allowance, daddy co-signed loans, daddy inheritance. His international businesses require public P&Ls, and from those we see his golf courses lose money. Not fancy accounting, but losses. Save for his Russian oligarch money through Deutsche Bank SIVs, he's belly up.....again. Maybe if he can cash out his campaign funding vehicle (Truth Social), he might have some money, but for the most part he lives on debt and leverage. Note he lacked the money to pay E. Jean Carroll. Not counting his Game Show, he's the answer to that old question: How do you make a small fortune? Answer: Start with a large one. I don't like him because he's destroying my country and everything better people than him or any MAGA fought to build, defend and improve.

He should have appointed qualified people. Your attempt at "Gotcha" is silly and childish, very MAGA-esque. I'm surprised you haven't somehow tried to work in Hunter's laptop. Maybe a remedial course in Whataboutism at POTUS eponymous university would help. In POTUS 1.0 he had Gen Mattis, Steve Cohn, Dan Coats, Rex Tillerson, even John Bolton (who at least can point out Russia on a map, even if I disagree with his policy views.) Now, he has a gaggle of Carnival People.

LOL Idiots and imbeciles. The poor Trade Rep nominee had to appear before the Senate yesterday for his confirmation hearing. He was deputy in POTUS 1.0. He boasted about "50 countries calling....blah blah blah". A Senator asked him about the USMCA, the trade agreement between US, Canada and Mexico passed by POTUS 45 (which POTUS then called "unbelievably great....nobody ever thought we could do it....blah blah blah", and who recently called it "horrible", until reminded he had done it). The Senator asked how long it took to put that deal together. "We did it in breakneck speed", answered nominee Greer. "How long is breakneck?", asked the Senator. "We did it in 2 years", answered Greer. So a single deal took two years, and now there are 184 countries under POTUS' new tariffs. I think "a little pain" means decades. Rational people might begin to get the impression none of this was thought out at all, and POTUS truly is an idiot.

He's losing some of his billionaire backers, too, like Ken Langone and Ken Griffin. Even his sycophantic podcasters are turning against him, like Portnoy, Ross and Shapiro. His bozo SecCommerce claims Americans want to put in those tiny screws in iPhones (which will cost $2100 if tariffs hold and $3500 if made completely in the US). MAGAs, maybe, but B O R I N G! As for manufacturing jobs, comedian Dave Chapelle said it best: Americans want to wear Nikes, not make Nikes. By the way, America is already the world's 2nd largest manufacturer, behind only China. The difference is the US produces higher value added. The margin on NVIDIA chips is 60%; on a Mercedes it's 8%.

Might be tough for a MAGA to grasp, but you're confusing Narcissism with brains. POTUS is the kind of guy who loves people who will sniff his flatulence and say it smells like jasmine, lavender and vanilla, so rather than being Chanel #5, it's POTUS #47. It's still flatulence and he's still an idiot.