Wingate

I think Trump will sooner rather than later be improving the world. He's in rapid physical decline. Right or wrong, upon his passing into worm food, the celebration across the world will rival that of the 1969 Lunar landing.

Andrew has been covered extensively by the "leftist woke media", as has Gates and Clinton. Clinton even was questioned under oath. Clinton is now a private citizen. Andrew is unemployed and getting evicted. Gates retired and divorced. If Clinton can be subpoenaed and questioned under oath, then certainly the current sitting (sleeping) President of the United States must be subpoenaed and questioned under oath. GUARANTEED is there were documents related to interviews with someone claiming Clinton raped her at age 13, G Bondi would be doing nothing else but investigating that. The fascist right media, plus the co-opted AG, however, think Trump is above the law.

The psycho drunk Fake Christian uses the term "shared heritage", which is clearly a euphemism for "white skin". The drunk also seems not to have read the 1st Amendment.

The OP provided a useful public service, which is bringing more eyeballs to a for profit website. Nobody is ever going to change anyone’s mind about anything, whether the subject is tatts, Trump, climate change or religion. Everyone, however, is entitled to an opinion, which is what makes a Forum. I think people can deface their one and only body in whatever manner they wish, but that doesn’t mean others cannot have an opinion. I personally dislike tatts, finding them noisy and frankly, quite ugly. I’ve never seen a person who wouldn’t look better without them. Seriously, who thinks their tatts look good? Who thinks people look at arms and legs slathered with random and unrelated tatts and thinks, “Wow, that looks so cool”? Tatts look silly, like a NASCAR driver who can’t take off his suit. Tatt aficianados will have a different view. Good for them.Takes all types to make a market. Many try to argue tatts are "art". Frankly, I don't think I'll ever see any hanging in the Louve. Maybe they are art the same way Tigers Painted on Black Velvet or Dogs Playing Poker are art. Maybe in a wild stretch of the term, tatts are art like Marcel Duchamp's urinal is art: the ordinary lifted to the status of art by the creator's choice. Up to the bearer, but when I see tatts I think of that unpleasant word "sheeple". Tatts were around, though worn by a tiny minority, for thousands of years, but only when they became a fad did the betas jump on board. I do think the fad is passing, as tatts are now embraced by the aging fat guys clad in cargo shorts and a Chang wifebeater, apparently in the hope they become a babe magnet. A gym membership likely pays more dividends, but again, up to the individual. Thailand already bans some types of tattoos, reminding people that Buddha images are unacceptable as tatts. Maybe just expand the ban a bit? For the sake of geometry and theology? (Gamma will get the reference) Since the OP suggested tatts be banned from entry, perhaps we can also add smokers and fat people, both of which are choices with gross negatives? The real bottom line is Thailand isn’t ever going to ban anything noted in this funny thread. But the good news is that the thread did attract eyeballs and help the site’s bottom line.

This shouldn't surprise anyone, though I suspect it surprises Trump. We should also be concerned that Trump cannot keep his mouth shut and has already announced Cuba is next. I can see another Cuban Missile Crisis, if Russia chooses to make sure Cuba can fight back. I do not know Cuba's missile capability, but surely Russia would make sure Cuba has the necessary firepower to reach Mar-a-Lago.

Do you mean like shutting down USAID? Goodness! I could have sworn Trump did that.

Grow up, child. Not everyone is as up to speed on what you and the fat old guy in Cambodia who buys young girls for sex (by his own admission) think "88" means. Some people just played university football and remember it fondly. Iguess neither you nor the fat guy ever played sports, which comes as no surprise. Can we assume by your handle that you are a arsonist?

Let's be honest and call Trump and Hegseth's belief system what it really is, because Christianity as espoused by the guy who gave it its name it is not: KKKristianity and KKKristian Nationalism. Righty Whities. They "love" Jesus, but hate what he actually preached. I bet these "believers" would like to ban Matthew 25 from churches, because it is an inconvenient truth. There is a cold-hearted school of thought that offers an alternative to military action against the drug cartels; it's called legalization. If drugs were legal, the cartels would have no business, or perhaps play the kind of role Monsanto plays in the food industry. Trump loves Monsanto, so he'd likely love Cocaine 'r Nosotros. Yes, Darwin Awards would have to be handed out to those who think, "I'm going to go try me some of that cocaine or heroin or fentanyl". It would still fit into Edwin Starr's song "WAR!" "it ain't nothing but a heartbreak...good only for the undertaker" But rather than spend the $1 trillion (2.6% of total US National Debt) the US has spent in the War on Drugs since 1971, money might be spent on care for the addicted and education of potential users.

To continue with the weed metaphor, Trump's EPA---which should be known as the Environmental Destruction Agency---has just made the use of the Monsanto weed-killing pesticide Roundup legal again, despite mountains of evidence that show it is a dangerous known carcinogen. While the glysophate that is Roundup is not directly detrimental directly to the human energy transport pathways, it is detrimental to the trillions of bacteria that make up the human guy microbiome. More ingested Roundup means a bad gut microbiome. Sorry American kids. But hey, trhat means you might not need to worry about unemployment when you're an adult, because you might already be dead, or else have such metabolic disorder that you'll be on SSDI. Interesting video here:

The BLS just released the February jobs number. It was expected to be +50,000. It came in at -92,000, and UE climbed to 4.4%. Not good. Despite Trump's promise to escort ULCCs through Hormuz and also to insure carriers, WTI jumped $10/bbl in the last day. Trump boasted in his SotU borefest that "gas is $1.85 a gallon (a lie). Now he says about gas prices, "If they go up, they go up." A few Saudi refineries are offline. Qatari LNG production is halted. Both will filter through to higher prices at the pump, to heat homes, to transport goods, and to fly. It will impact any product based on petroleum, from plastics to fertilizer. In his SotU speech Trump said "many people are telling me there's just too much winning". It doesn't look that way. Not much winning in employment or prices or peace. Maybe Trump's meme coin is doing okay? For those unable to grift off their position, however, things are turning quite sour.

He is a cult leader and a fascist. Oh, and a wannabe dictator. He's a lot more Mussolini than Hitler, though I'm sure if Trump thought he could get away with it, he'd put critics in camps along with whatever ethnicity or religion bothered him on any particular day. His boy Stephen Miller would definitely torture people is Trump told him to do it. Miller is pure psychopath. The cult is in deep, because worship of Trump is the only meaning they have in otherwise pointless lives. If they lose him, they are totally lost and will again be forced to face the reality of their abject failure in life.

The obvious way to do it is to make it a Game Show, produced by Mark Burnett and starring Donny Trump as the Inquisator General. Who Wants to be the Ayatollah! Imagine the ratings! There could be a group of celebrity candidates, like Kid Rock, Laura Loomer, Megyn Kelly, John Voight, Nikki Minaj, Nick Fuentes, Kanye West, Mike Lindell, Jesse Watters, and maybe Sam Altman.

If you listen to Trump’s slurred speech at his Thursday Cabinet meeting, then rather than attack Iran, the US should send its corporate elite to Tehran to learn Iran’s manufacturing secrets. Trump claimed through his slurs that he completely destroyed Iran’s nuke bomb making ability in July 2025, when Iran was “two weeks” (for variety’s sake, someone please teach Trump the word “fortnight”) away from making a bomb. Trump went on to slur that he attacked now, because Iran was once again “two weeks” from producing a nuclear weapon. If a country can go from totally destroyed to being two weeks away from producing a nuke, all within a little more than 6 months, that is a manufacturing dynamo from which the US could learn a heck of a lot. Unless Trump was lying.

Saudi Arabia is a sponsor of Sunni terrorism, but they do business with Trump and Jared, so all is forgiven. The CEO of Binance is a money launderer for Hamas---you know Hamas, the terrorists who caused the horror on 7 October---but Trump pardoned him because he does business with Trump's firm. Just a little consistency...is that too much to ask?

Before she gets too entrenched in her new made up job, perhaps we can get an answer on why she paid a Russian $100 million over the market price of a $28 million warehouse facility in rural Georgia, which supposedly will be used to house ICE detainees.

And here I thought mendacity, self-dealing, wasteful spending and marital infidelity were job requirements to work in the Trump Administration. I wonder what Noem could have done wrong to offend her boss?

Yet another of the terrorists Trump pardoned for their attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 has been sentenced to life in prison for molesting two children. Andrew Paul Johnson of Florida, who worked as a handyman, was convicted of two counts of lewd and lascivious molestation of a child and one count of electronically transmitting material harmful to a minor. The felon attended Trump’s “Stop the Steal” (sic) rally on the National Mall before marching to the Capitol as Trump had told the crowd to do, where Johnson entered the Capitol building and cursed and yelled at police officers through a bullhorn. Note: Yet another of the pardoned terrorists, Bryan Betancur, was arrested on 5 March 2026 for filming himself touching the hair of female passengers on the DC Metro, which Betancur later posted online in his social media account called “Bryan On Task”. Yahoo NewsCapitol rioter who was pardoned by Trump gets a life sent...A Florida handyman who was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison for molesting two children had been convicted of storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but was pardoned by President Donald Trump. O

On its own, Ukraine has figured out the best way to defend against the Shaheed drones, which Russia has been using against Ukraine. Neither the US nor any GCC country is as skilled at taking out the Shaheeds, so Trump and other nations have asked Zelenskyy for help. The Shaheeds have been so effective they have shut down Qatar's LNG industry, and both Bahrain and Qatar have declared a force majeure regarding aluminum smelters and shut them down. Several refineries in Saudi Arabia and the UAE are now offline. The WTI Crude reference contract traded on the NY Merc is pushing $80/bbl and Brent crude is almost $85/bbl. WTI was in the high $50s before Trump began building up forces in the Gulf, so that's roughly a 33% jump in a little more than a month. Besides being asked for help by Trump, Zelenskyy has also been approached by UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain. In a speech, President Zelenskyy announced he has tasked Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, along with his intel agencies and his Defense Dept, to present options for assisting relevant countries and to provide aid in a way that does not weaken Ukraine’s own defense. Ukraine’s military has the expertise to handle the Shaheeds. Ukrainian experts will operate on site, and teams are already coordinating these efforts. It seems the effectiveness of the Shaheeds, at a mere $20K a pop, is greater than the US anticipated, so Trump, along with GCC countries, have asked Zelenskyy for help. I wonder if JD Vance will say "Thank you"?

Speaking of "asymmetrical", Iran has taken out two THAAD systems, one in Abu Dhabi and one in Qatar, using drones. A THAAD system costs $1.2 billion. The Iranian drones cost $20K.

So killing millions of innocent Iranians is okay in the world of suze? Psychopath...or armchair warrior.

It's not so simple. Ideally, ships passing south through the strait will be filled with crude or LNG. Iran, however, has already closed down Ras Tanura and one of Qatar's main LNG plants, so it might be more difficult to fill up. When Bessent announced the US move, crude fell about $5/bbl from its attack high. Since, it has regained $4/bbl, so the net is just -$1. That suggests the oil market thinks either that Iran will attack more production facilities, or else Iran might still be able to attack ships passing through the strait. Regarding the Saudi pipeline to Yanbu, it's almost impossible to protect the entire length of that, particularly as it begins in the eastern province of Saudi, which is heavily Shi'a. Undoubtedly there are either sleeper cells or Shi'a siding with Iran. Bahrain has similar issues with Shi'a. The war is still in the early stages. Iran is playing it one way now, primarily with missiles and drones, but in a war that will become increasingly asymmetrical, tactics will change to more guerilla-style strikes, such as against production facilities or pipelines. The US-Israeli aerial bombing is just the first stage. If regime change is the ultimate goal, it is going to take boots on the ground. Israel ground forces are dealing with Hezbollah in Lebanon, so the boots in Iran will be American. I'm not sure what taste Americans have for lots of body bags coming into Dover. Iraq and Afghanistan were easy compared to the size of the various forces Iran can unleash. If there was a plan in place, perhaps even supporters of the war would have more confidence. There doesn't seem to be one, any more than there is a consistent rationale for why the war began. Trump's "hunch"?

The "Talibangicals" in the US, who call themselves "Christian Nationalists" are just jihadis in slacks and baseball caps, rather than thobes and ghutras. The "love" Jesus but hate what he taught. They cry for the abortion of a zygote, but call the deaths of innocents unavoidable "collateral damage". They don't seem even to have read the book they claim to worship, as abortion is noted in the Old Testament, with Moses even giving instructions on how to perform it (Leviticus). Not once did Jesus ever mention abortion. What Jesus did say, in Matthew 25, was practice humility, feed the poor, welcome the stranger, and care for prisoners. "Nations and individuals will be judged on how they follow these teachings". If the Bible is the word of some deity, the US under Trump is well and truly effed.

Not that it was ever anything but a joke, but your online IQ score of 137 gets more laughable by the second. Decent people see there's a difference between bad guys and innocent civilians. Nobody is crying about Khamenei's passing (no doubt eventually Trump will declare "success" and "regime change" because now Iran will have Khamenei's son as leader, so technically "regime change"). This was a war of choice. Trump barked throughout the Obama years that Obama would attack Iran to hep his re-election plus Obama was such a weak negotiator. Well doesn't THAT sound like projection....plus it's a diversion from Epstein and the DoJ's illegal removal of 48,000 Epstein files with accusations against Trump. Incidentally, when Obama realized his strike authorizations led to innocent deaths, he did 2 things: he made targeting much more restrictive and requiring a much higher degree of certainty (Trump tossed that out when he authorized strikes). The second thing Obama did was ask that someone develop a more accurate and precise weapon. Enter a woman from the agency's S&T, seconded to CTC under "Ayatollah Mike", aka The Dark Prince. The woman used her technical expertise to develop what is called the Flying Ginsu. It is a missile fired from a drone that can penetrate walls or car roofs, and then instantly release a whirlwind of blades that mince the person it strikes. Obama used to take take out individuals inside cars, while only messing up the clothes of the other people in the car. Biden used to to take out Ayman al Zawahiri. It is a weapon straight from Hell, but it limits the possibility of collateral damage and the deaths of innocents.

Your unit.....LOL Is that The Armchair Warrior Bone Spurs Brigade, the unit that is lightning quick to send others to fight for what the armchair types believe?

Of course it's true, despite Rubio trying to backtrack. When the Administration announced it was sending additional troops and gear to the area, that says they were not fully prepared at the time the strikes began. The military would have made a detailed plan and made sure everything they might possibly need was in place and on location before launch. Trump had to make up his fantasy about a "hunch" Iran was somehow about to attack the US, despite Iran not having the ability to launch any such attack. No long range missiles, no bombers with that range, no place to aerially refuel, plus no aerial refuelers. The attack was definitely "America Second".