I was educated on Twitter that that was an "air kiss" which means he didn't want to smear her makeup. And that it was a class move to do so.
Which made me wonder...well, if that's a classy move, I wonder what they thought when they found out he was banging a porn star when Melania was preggers.
88Commanders00 wrote: Mon Jan 20, 2025 8:42 pm
As expected m, Trump pardoned all 1500 1/6 rioters.
Traitors....every last one of them.
Fucking disgusting. I was doomscrolling on Twitter last night and I saw some of them tweeting about how they'd been pardoned. And the conservatives cheering them on, telling them how happy they were for them.
The double standards are just absurd. If the shoe were on the other foot, if the roles had been reversed and it were Democrats that stormed the capitol on J6, the conservatives, aka the "law and order" group would be fit to be tied. I mean, they blame antifa as liberals who rioted and looted cities and want those people brought to justice but they want to look the other way on J6.
It's more of "our team's good, your team's bad" and it's ridiculous.
The Jan 6 people will be arrested again, criminals going to criminal. The bigger issue is all the personal freedom that was lost through executive order. And I get all that will get challenged in court. But who really thinks that matters. Trump hand picked the Supreme Court and on 99 percent of these cases the Supreme Court will side with Trump.
88Commanders00 wrote: Mon Jan 20, 2025 8:42 pm
As expected m, Trump pardoned all 1500 1/6 rioters.
Traitors....every last one of them.
Fucking disgusting. I was doomscrolling on Twitter last night and I saw some of them tweeting about how they'd been pardoned. And the conservatives cheering them on, telling them how happy they were for them.
The double standards are just absurd. If the shoe were on the other foot, if the roles had been reversed and it were Democrats that stormed the capitol on J6, the conservatives, aka the "law and order" group would be fit to be tied. I mean, they blame antifa as liberals who rioted and looted cities and want those people brought to justice but they want to look the other way on J6.
It's more of "our team's good, your team's bad" and it's ridiculous.
Thats why the Dems need to:
1. Do whatever you're going to do anyways. The right is going to cry, call you liars/cheaters/pedos/etc, so just do your thing and don't worry about what they're going to say. I'm not saying break the law, but quit worrying about optics all the time, get some damn results. I'm tired of seeing atricles that say "[insert GOP name] Gets Roasted/Torched/Demolished" only to watch a C-SPAN video of a take down that no one is watching and means nothing in the grand scheme of things.
2. Stop helping Maga. Unpopular, I know, but let them "govern". Its already coming off the rails, people are going to feel it sooner than I ever could've imagined. This isn't like the last time where Trump had people to reign him in and he slow dripped everything. He learned NOTHING from his first term, he's making all of the same mistakes (legit all of them) and he's doing it in the first week. We're going to feel it soon, not to mention his plans for Mexico, we're going to feel it bad...
You've all heard the story about putting a frog in a boiling pot of water opposed to slowly raising the temp. Well, Trump dumped America into a boiling pot and we're already trying to jump out. I'm calling civil unrest by the end of Summer.
Fucking disgusting. I was doomscrolling on Twitter last night and I saw some of them tweeting about how they'd been pardoned. And the conservatives cheering them on, telling them how happy they were for them.
The double standards are just absurd. If the shoe were on the other foot, if the roles had been reversed and it were Democrats that stormed the capitol on J6, the conservatives, aka the "law and order" group would be fit to be tied. I mean, they blame antifa as liberals who rioted and looted cities and want those people brought to justice but they want to look the other way on J6.
It's more of "our team's good, your team's bad" and it's ridiculous.
I'm calling civil unrest by the end of Summer.
Wild. There must be something I'm missing. Mrs. Spiff is all "I'm afraid to live here, we need to pack go-bags, get passports in order, etc."
Which I'm doing because...well, happy wife, happy life. And she's genuinely concerned so I want to do what I can to be supportive of that.
I think the next 4 years are going to certainly suck, but I'm not sure if I see civil unrest on the horizon. Like I said, maybe I'm missing something.
Spaceman Spiff wrote: Tue Jan 21, 2025 4:09 pm
I think the next 4 years are going to certainly suck, but I'm not sure if I see civil unrest on the horizon. Like I said, maybe I'm missing something.
I'm not sure that civil unrest is on the horizon, but I think the road to it isn't unforeseeable to the point where making some basic plans and taking some basic precautions makes sense. I wouldn't suggest anybody dump their whole investment portfolio for canned food, guns, and bullets, but some low stakes moves as insurance against the extreme downside seem prudent to me.
At some level, he's removing the moral hazard from the right to behave badly. And J6 seems like a one time thing, but I wouldn't be surprised if this doesn't encourage bad behavior with respect to elected officials to the left at the state and federal levels and non-elected officials that are deemed "liberal" or "woke".
And while them meteing out of justice maybe uneven and unjust, there will certainly be some sort of violent response from the violent/extreme left. Which then can leads to an escalating set of problems (and that's then how you end up with a dictatorship where Trump declares emergency powers to deal with situation that he had a hand in creating. Encourage and even plan violence on my side, when the other side responds crack down, causing even greater response, and then claim you need more power to control the situation.)
