For a part it might be good if they force the shutdown, AND let it last indefinitely, a month+ at least… not cave in after a day or two …

If they’d do that it will show the true colors of the maga folks… they will enact violence on democrats, and after a while trump will sign a decree the republicans can sign their own bills to come into effect and democrats will no longer be needed /allowed to govern).
Soon after the arrest warrants come for the democrats who were in the way…

Hmm he is somewhat right there… the right should have fully impeached and incarcerated Trump for all his crimes …
And even now they are blind to his full on crime spree and self enrichment from the US’ coffers.

In favor or fearful of …

There were at least 3 beyond highly likely sources for the concealed tapes:

• Epsteins island center where things were recorded
• A backup in Epsteins Manhattan office location (which had its safe opened after which the fbi left, came back later only to find the safe empty.)
• Ghislaine Maxwell who was rumored to know of or have a location of her own.

Seeing how Putin is very adept at working in shaded circles it’s very reasonable to assume he now is in possession of a copy.
Not even unthinkable that epstein sold/gave putin a copy himself when he went there when Trump also had regular personal dealings in moscow.

I think you meant to say it was a private affair (from far before his presidency) and therefore not a presidential action that he made remarks.

But Trump wants his powers to work retroactively as well, so anything in the past can be wiped off his slate as long as he remarks about it while being president.

Disregarding everything else, it is plain bizarre that he is allowed to keep and keep and keep trying to get a different outcome.

“You can only vote for what we tell you to vote for”

Just do a republican-lie and say: I support his actions to keep the streets clean of violent crime, whichever e.o. that might be is open to interpretation. …

But I suspect they want the answer to be “all of them, glory to our leaderking”.

But that’s a build in design … less kids and other weak folk to give decades long medical coverage to saves a lot on the medical costs the small government has!

On top of that, now with severe restrictions on research and marketing of new vaccines, there will be even less medicines in the system.
What competition there was will be wiped away when there are only a small handful of “competing” drugs left per ailment, priced the same ofcourse but just differ in side-effects.

Winning through reducing costs, losing by healing less people.

And so, 4 years down the line, we hear them boast how much costs they reduced in medicaid and still kept it running.

I applaud a full disclosure … but the republicans will never release untampered files that have trumps name in them.

If they can find a way to omit trumps name and release that version while being very sure no other version is out there they might consider it.

Perhaps that can be useful to “stop” the next elections by holding their version in the air and proclaiming: “see what evil the other party brought us with their pizza store den of depravity!”

Ofcourse not even mentioning the other side will also thwart a complete release of the files. No matter how much the public clamoring for the papers.

This will be this decades’ JFK Assasination files.

imo you are forgetting one thing, the whole “positive discrimination” concept, as a precursor to “DEI”, was a BIG catalyst that started to make people feel they are being treated unfairly.
Slowly but with solid force people who worked/studied hard, were skipped for positions or possibilities in favor of someone with lesser degrees, and often (not always) the ones suffering under it never fully saw it as a race/skin color issue, it was just unfair.

People sucked up that disgruntlement for years, and along comes a bloated guy with a movement that makes clear those years will be rolled back. Some of them seem to even expect to now get that one job they missed out on 6 years ago handed to them, ignoring ofcourse how the scales now tipped to the other side where it will be “friends or buy-ins only”.

Not a dictator but a king and despot.

Dictators hold no longer legacy beyond their own person, but a king, now those have an unshakable family line to claim the throne…

It’s not so much that they down- and upscale the video of shorts, their algorithm changes the look of people. It warps skin and does a strange sort of sharpening that makes things look quite unreal and almost plastic.

It is a filter that evens the look with images generated by, say, grok or one of the other AI filters.

In a year people will think that “AI-look” is a normal video look, and stuff generated with it is what humans can look like. We will see crazed AI-fashion looks popping up.

Planted evidences? Yeah most likely, also probably will be something small and unrelated to the case but enough for a judge to glue it together with a hefty sentence.
(Simplified example: weed on the premises -> supporting drug trafficking -> supporting violent gangs -> danger to the usa)
Heck, his book alone might be construed as anti trump, anti presidential so therefore anti USA and dangerous.

A judge stopping it? Nah, none of them will, and if one might think it’s ridiculous enough to pull on the brake he or she will be overruled by an appeals court. The law is Trump and trump is the law.
(so hey, if he IS the law he can never be above it … nor below…)

Bah, each time I want to do the manual upgrade from 23h2 I have to postpone it again due to some stupid bug or annoying feature that makes me reconsider doing it.

Not donate, that would mean it’s for a cause… Putin has said for a long time now he considers Alaska Russian property and wants it back. So Trump will just give it to him as if it was loaned from Russia.

This is also why Trump wants Canada and Greenland, he needs to find a way to balance things so it looks like a win for him… “We gave Alaska back to Russia, but won Greenland and Canada for the greatest usa, best deal ever!”

I would not be surprised in the slightest if he invades Greenland by next year.

At the very least he needs to find distractions to keep the American people drowning in chaos while the country slips even further in misery.

It kind of sounds like the beginnings of star trek’s replicators…

But that aside, somehow I doubt those are the exact only “ingredients” they use.
And it wouldn’t surprise me at all if the end product contains all kinds of trace elements of various not so healthy chemicals used to get the parts to combine into the actual butter.
Like the process to get the glycerol or lecithin in a state they can use.

Ofcourse a lot of our dietary ingredients are contaminated in various levels anyway.

If she’s out on the streets a car accident is easily reasoned away …
Also a “jump” from a window can be made plausible, because well she’ll be depressed now and does not want to go back behind a locked door…

But perhaps they hope they can drum up a hyperfocussed victim who only hears the command “must kill the pedophile” and will stab her on the sidewalk.

He’s not lying … crime IS on the rise in DC…

His crime, his cronies crimes, his family’s crimes, all rising sharply…

From crypto scams with rugpulling, to grifting people into buying Trump labeled goods, to insider trading and willfull stockmarket manipulation, from breaking the rule of law to punishing political opponents, to taking bribes and giving bribes so not to be accused, from lying about proven data to forcibly adjusting them to his will. And the crime list is growing almost daily…

Each accusation is an admission of guilt.

The LGBTQ populace will be eradicated, it will most likely be the first target they go for, after the immigrants, prioritized over submitting women.

Anyone suspected of leaning towards that “lifestyle” will be seen as a possible subversive element, since it will not fit in their picture of family values.
There will come razzias dragging people out into the streets and “deporting” them to unknown destinations.
I can see them starting “McCarthyism” like councils to drum up fear and hatred.

The signs are already there with lgbtq’ers being fired by the government losing all pension benefits in trump’s current decreed legislation.
I even have seen one wackjob being interviewed plainly stating gays should have no rights nor be able to have property…

And don’t forget, in this day and age at least half of the population would delight in giving their neighbors intense problems if only because said neighbors had nicer flowers in their garden or some other trivial nonsense.
In Nazi Germany and the occupied countries there were massive amounts of collaborators terrorizing every community they were in and it had almost nothing to do with love for the Nazi’s. For the US reporting deviant behavior will become the new threat of lawsuits… Heck, the government might even decide to reward such reporting.