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Wake me up the day this SOB suffers any actual consequences for anything he does.
I too want to sleep forever
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To be fair, he has suffered consequences, like Jean Carol, humiliations by Obama, tons of companies going under, etc. He just blames others for it, so it doesn't mean much. He's not a happy dude either and his health is deteriorating fast. I just think they're not equal to his crimes.
his health is deteriorating fast.
The man is nearly in his '80s... He could be the happiest man in the world and his health would likely be deteriorating.
That he's lived so long when better men have died early is proof enough that God doesn't exist.
Or if he does exist, he's more like the Old Testament god.
Yahweh woulda smote his ass long ago
I’m more of a mind of if, in the highly unlikely event that, there ever was an intelligent creator they are long since dead or have moved on to other projects.
It's a safe bet knowing enough human world history from the first civilizations to be built in dank river valleys to present day to say no gods ever interacted with us while we're alive anyways. If they exist at all. Or that it/they could be aware in the first place of some temporary peach fuzz growing on a doomed tiny rock ball.
I'm on team Pointless Math Bubble expansion Big Bang among countless other universes instead of singularity Big Bang myself. Not that it matters. It's just one of the 27+ Big Bang theories. I just like Time kinda existing beforehand in a higher plane.
This is actually how I've been thinking about it.
I still don't believe a God exists, but if he does he's an absolute piece of shit. Sounds about right for the world he supposedly created
I like the Gnostics' take on this.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism
The Old Testament God (Demiurge or Yaldabaoth) is explicitly a force of chaos and evil separate from the True God (Monad), who is just an absent father. The Demiurge, and by extension all of material existence, is either separate or directly opposed to the Monad.
How does free will factor into this worldview?
If we're supposing a God exists then I suppose my free will is limited to what their intentions were for my existence.
He did all of this in plain sight, with people pointing it out in real time. How is anyone at all caught off guard about any of it?
The common clay of the new west.
Lol, I guess we now know why he had a tantrum last night and is suing the NYT for 15 billion dollars.
Trump files $15B defamation lawsuit against The New York Times
President Donald Trump has added The New York Times to the list of media companies he’s challenged in court, filing a $15 billion defamation lawsuit that targets four of its journalists in a book and three articles published within a two-month period before the last election.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-lawsuit-new-york-times-b2a615192ebe2dcec859eb883368dfbb
And by doing so, he’s just calling more attention to something that was probably able to be brushed under the rug because of how fucking rich these people are
The NYT is owned 90% by a family who has owned it for over a 100 years. He might be barking up the wrong tree here. I fucking hope so.
For some reason I don't see the Post backing up the New York Times, or the Supreme Court stopping the federal government from censoring the press anymore.
Maybe, maybe not. Pretty soon, the billionaires are going to be targeted. We'll see if they do their own thing.
The billionaires own and or buy the press. So long as the billionaires want more power and money and to pull that money from the working class they have the support of the executive and judicial branch now. The most powerful branch in a republic is supposed to be the legislature. By far in my opinion. Yet right now we have gotten to the point where the executive branch may honestly be hoping for a shutdown because it only makes Congress look worse.
"They never get anything done and I can" is the image that will likely be pushed soon by this administration. The President doesn't believe in freedom of speech, press, assembly, or religion. He only believes in populism, and trying to create an authoritarian rule over people using the media to manipulate the people to make him popular regardless of people's rights getting stomped on in the process. He wants money flowing into his pockets, and everyone around him to praise him for it. He doesn't care that the money coming into his pockets is coming from working class Americans, so long as they are foolish enough to keep him in a place where he can keep making that money.
If you think the MAGA government, or even a Democratic government, is going to hold Billionaires responsible for anything, you're delusional. The worst they would do to them is give them a multi-billion dollar government contract, and a huge tax break.
No, I meant trump is going to russia style and go after the oligarch's money.
He's been doing impeachable things every fucking day. How will this make any difference?
I’m stunned that the observers were stunned
it has been 9 years of this and they're still posting this cope
it has been 9 years of this and they're still posting this cope
"User slams every single citizen in the United States for a decade of getting high as fuck on their own supply. You'll never believe what he does next."
It's what's called journalism nowadays I guess. It's really fuckin tragic.
and nothing will be done about it
What can we do about it? Tell me something I can go out and do today or this weekend. I'm sick of sitting on my hands. Feels like protests do nothing
You? Not much, people in government could do a lot, though. They won't. but they could. The most you can do about this is grass roots campaigns to put pressure on your local reps to do something for you.
Yea, but the Republicans won't do it. They want to destroy the nation.
Idk guys this sounds like hate speech, don't you know we can't accuse the leaders in the regime of any crimes?
Or shitty podcasters