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Stop trying to make like there's some kind of grand strategy or secret plan at work. It's not that. Truly. It's the simplest thing you can possibly imagine.

Don't think "four-dimensional chess"

Think "toddler + cheerios"

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/b...

I think Bibi wants this and fully understands the risks.

I think Israel is trying to balkanize Iran. No chance of regime change. A failed state is maybe seen as better than a new regime aligned with Russia or China.

This screams to me that Trump, Hegseth, or both were told the risks but don't understand or care.

The "Pentagon" goes to the press with this because they need to get the word out to halt it before there are dead soldiers.

One reason Trump isn't waiting to steal billions from the Treasury is that when he goes, the party ends for the Trump family. They have limited time to exfiltrate money to off shore accounts.

This is a dumb strategy when taken at face value. Bluesky denizens are chomping at the bit to proclaim his idiocy.

Hubris & arrogance.

The reality is that pure strain shamelessness is a very effective strategy within our broken political system.

He has supreme power nonetheless

He doesn't really figure things out because that's not the part that matters. Pretending things are how he would like them to be is the basis of every bit of his legal warfare.

He doesn't have to be right because the courts always show him deference and he can pretend some more when they don't.

JFC. 🙅

Non-zero chances we will be ruled by Trump's literal corpse for a few years. It's JD Vance's best shot at gaining a personality. It will be a confusing time for all.

Once Trump's network of concentration camps comes online it's a very short trip from there to mass murder.

Trump and his army of masked brownshirts are too deep in it already. All those call about Nuremberg 2.0?

They know.

There is now only way to keep their lives & freedom: Violence.

Milton Mayer talked about this in "They Thought They Were Free".

Who is the primary challenger?

We covered this in 2016.

‘No one deserves this’: Beaverton father dies after deportation to Mexico A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died.

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported.

He finally died.

I am so angry.
www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

They will stuff way more than 92,600 people in there.

This case was based on imaginary powers and still lasted a whole year.

His lawyers have regularly invented new powers and the courts to date have treated it as good faith arguments, up to and including "Presidential immunity"

No offense, but what you're claiming does not match reality.

No, because they issue narrow rulings and Trump will try every loophole real and imaginary.

Also No, because enforcement is separate litigation.

Doubling down on his core policy: "fuck you, make me"

John Roberts, hope you are proud of yourself.

Allow me to translate:

So basically, Trump is going to ignore the Supreme Court ruling on tariffs.

You’re welcome.

One because they now know you're real. Two because they don't care.

Three because each list is separate and you can't remove yourself from the master list, ever.

One of the very few self-imposed limits Trump has ever expressed is respect for Supreme Court decisions. No doubt that was in part due to his confidence of victories there. We'll soon learn whether that line still holds.

the right really hates it when you call their planned concentration camps "concentration camps." their whole program works only if you make migrants into a scary mass of undocumented criminals coming for white families. its a lot harder when you humanize it. keep it up.

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

Adults at ICE concentration camps also get punished for talking with people on the outside who can publicize their stories.

Based on what I've heard at the Otay Mesa camp in San Diego, they're punished with additional work duties, aren't allowed outside in the yard, and denied phone access.

I'm glad you posted this. Was wanting to hear opinions on other candidates. Way more constructive.

Seems much redder today or is it just me?

That's why one of Trump's first acts was to pardon Jan 6th traitors. He had to show he would extend immunity to them.

What none of the MAGA chucklefucks will figure out is that Trump won't preemptively pardon away his leverage over them. They had to stay loyal & vote in 2024 to earn that privilege.

Conspiracy Against Rights is a capital crime when it leads to kidnapping, rape, or death.

Treason isn't the crime they are committing.

My hottest AI take is that pooling collective knowledge is a socialist ideal.

(Obviously not what's happening. Closed models and private ownership are huge problems)