On 7/29/2026 at 6:27 AM, kaputt said:

I am still thankful to this day that Kamala Harris is not the president.

Please check out the small sampling (posted below) of Trump’s posts from yesterday. Just yesterday. Take a look and ask yourself: is this person of sound mind? If I had a senior leader, say my WG/CC, whose daily social media footprint looked anything like this, …..what would I think? How would I react? What assumptions would I make about his character, his focus & priorities, and his fitness to lead (especially in a time of war)?

Harris was no doubt a deeply flawed candidate to say the least. But to still pretend that Trump is the lesser evil is really an astonishing level of delusion and tribalism.

As anyone honestly watching can tell, Trump’s give-a-shit meter is rapidly approaching zero. And who can blame him? He’s had to masquerade for over 10 years. Can you imagine how exhausting that must be? 10 years of pretending to know what you’re doing while you’re completely overwhelmed and out of your league? 10 years of trying to act smart or knowledgable while you’re actually a total ignoramus? After a lifetime of amassing personal wealth, running through wives and porn stars, seeking fame and attention on TV, to suddenly turn around and pretend to be selfless? Pretending to give a $hit about other people when you’re hard-wired to only care about yourself. Pretending to care about lying….to fake caring that in normal society, you can’t just obviously lie and have everyone go along with it?

The facade, thin though it always was, is vanishing rapidly. The social media posts, aided by AI, far crazier than ever. The interview and press answers, more rambling, nonsensical, and demented than ever. The lying, now completely off-the-charts blatant and obvious, even to a laughable degree. The corruption and profiting from the office more overt and at a larger scale than ever before.

Behind the facade is just the same old, stupid, bloated egomaniac that was always there. We’re now getting to the chapter where he doesn’t even have to try to fake it or hide his true self. “Holy $hit, how much crazier will he get?” honest people ask themselves. What will it be like when his give-a-shit meter is inevitably pegged at zero?

This is a complete and total national embarrassment. Full stop. Every day.

….But anyway, yeah, thank god Harris isn’t in there. Phew. We really dodged a bullet.

Edited yesterday at 06:27 PM1 day by SpeedOfHeat

The Iran “plan” is stupid. I’d keep targeting and killing all of their top leaders (high value military and igrc targets as well) until they’ve laid down with hands out in surrender. Pausing while they pretend to negotiate is as stupid as it gets.

1 hour ago, SpeedOfHeat said:

Please check out the small sampling (posted below) of Trump’s posts from yesterday. Just yesterday. Take a look and ask yourself: is this person of sound mind? If I had a senior leader, say my WG/CC, whose daily social media footprint looked anything like this, …..what would I think? How would I react? What assumptions would I make about his character, his focus & priorities, and his fitness to lead (especially in a time of war)?

Harris was no doubt a deeply flawed candidate to say the least. But to still pretend that Trump is the lesser evil is really an astonishing level of delusion and tribalism.

As anyone honestly watching can tell, Trump’s give-a-shit meter is rapidly approaching zero. And who can blame him? He’s had to masquerade for over 10 years. Can you imagine how exhausting that must be? 10 years of pretending to know what you’re doing while you’re completely overwhelmed and out of your league? 10 years of trying to act smart or knowledgable while you’re actually a total ignoramus? After a lifetime of amassing personal wealth, running through wives and porn stars, seeking fame and attention on TV, to suddenly turn around and pretend to be selfless? Pretending to give a $hit about other people when you’re hard-wired to only care about yourself. Pretending to care about lying….to fake caring that in normal society, you can’t just obviously lie and have everyone go along with it?

The facade, thin though it always was, is vanishing rapidly. The social media posts, aided by AI, far crazier than ever. The interview and press answers, more rambling, nonsensical, and demented than ever. The lying, now completely off-the-charts blatant and obvious, even to a laughable degree. The corruption and profiting from the office more overt and at a larger scale than ever before.

Behind the facade is just the same old, stupid, bloated egomaniac that was always there. We’re now getting to the chapter where he doesn’t even have to try to fake it or hide his true self. “Holy $hit, how much crazier will he get?” honest people ask themselves. What will it be like when his give-a-shit meter is inevitably pegged at zero?

This is a complete and total national embarrassment. Full stop. Every day.

….But anyway, yeah, thank god Harris isn’t in there. Phew. We really dodged a bullet.

I know this won't make sense to you, because fundamentally the progressive sees only problems in the present and solutions in the future, whereas the conservative sees success in the present and problems in the future. Both are necessary, but they see the world differently.

Kamala, Obama, Bernie, AOC, whoever. Now that the DNC is being steered by the progressives (and not the Clinton style liberals), there's no question for a conservative. Progressives are proudly and loudly vilifying the institutions and norms that conservatives believe made our society possible and prosperous. They defend real threats today (illegal immigration, the failures of socialism, the death of meritocracy) in the name of invisible threats (trans genocide, islamophobia, unconscious bias).

The things we believe make America what it is (individualism, limited government, free speech, law and order) are the stated enemies of the progressives.

Sure there are definitely threats from the right. Anyone now associated with Tucker Carlson is most likely a populist threat. But they aren't in charge, and in fact, they increasingly hate Trump. But I'll take the insane liar (Trump) who at least claims to support the things I support (and acts on them frequently) over the "sane" liars (Kamala) who have opposed my ideals for their entire career.

You want it to be a hard choice. Hell, I want it to be a harder choice. But it's not. I like most of Trump's policy. I detest almost everything the progressives stand for. So if you want me to say Trump is a lunatic, yep, agreed. But if you want me to say Kamala would have been better for the country... Nope.

Canada tried that with Trudeau and it was a disaster. No thanks.

I know. You disagree. But you keep reinforcing our point when you think you're disproving it.

Edited 14 hours ago14 hr by Lord Ratner

6 hours ago, SpeedOfHeat said:

This is a complete and total national embarrassment. Full stop. Every day.

….But anyway, yeah, thank god Harris isn’t in there. Phew. We really dodged a bullet.

True on both accounts.

9 hours ago, Lord Ratner said:

I like most of Trump's policy.

Policy.  lol

You mean like…..

-No new wars.

-Consumer prices are going to come way down.

-Energy costs will be cut by 50% in the first year.

-The Russia-Ukraine War ended before taking office.

-The national debt will be eliminated.

-The Epstein files will be released.

-You’ll get beautiful tremendous healthcare.

-You”ll get a tariff check and a doge check.

-Birthright citizenship will be ended via EO.

The list goes on and on.  All total BS.

His “policy” is stupid vanity projects.  That’s his primary focus. It’s what he likes and what he thinks will serve as his legacy. Dumb shit like his Qatari Force One, ballroom, botched reflecting pool, gilded Oval Office, UFC fights, etc. 

His “policy” is posting batshit memes into the wee hours of the morning, and then falling asleep at meetings.  He’s alienated and betrayed our closest allies.  He’s entangled us in yet another idiotic war in the Middle East and settled into a weekly routine of threatening war crimes and then TACO’ing. He’s ballooned the national debt, and calls “affordability” a made up Democrat hoax.

Meanwhile, below is a highlight from today. His typical day spent golfing ….bragging about his unparalleled talent in a tournament at his own course.  This is what’s important to him. 

Again, his give-a-shit meter is zero’d out. It’s as if he were testing just how ridiculous he can possibly get and still get away with it. And sure enough, you’re over here still like “….well, I really like his policies.”  lol. Don the Con.

8 hours ago, SpeedOfHeat said:

Policy.  lol

You mean like…..

-No new wars.

-Consumer prices are going to come way down.

-Energy costs will be cut by 50% in the first year.

-The Russia-Ukraine War ended before taking office.

-The national debt will be eliminated.

-The Epstein files will be released.

-You’ll get beautiful tremendous healthcare.

-You”ll get a tariff check and a doge check.

-Birthright citizenship will be ended via EO.

The list goes on and on.  All total BS.

His “policy” is stupid vanity projects.  That’s his primary focus. It’s what he likes and what he thinks will serve as his legacy. Dumb shit like his Qatari Force One, ballroom, botched reflecting pool, gilded Oval Office, UFC fights, etc. 

His “policy” is posting batshit memes into the wee hours of the morning, and then falling asleep at meetings.  He’s alienated and betrayed our closest allies.  He’s entangled us in yet another idiotic war in the Middle East and settled into a weekly routine of threatening war crimes and then TACO’ing. He’s ballooned the national debt, and calls “affordability” a made up Democrat hoax.

Meanwhile, below is a highlight from today. His typical day spent golfing ….bragging about his unparalleled talent in a tournament at his own course.  This is what’s important to him. 

Again, his give-a-shit meter is zero’d out. It’s as if he were testing just how ridiculous he can possibly get and still get away with it. And sure enough, you’re over here still like “….well, I really like his policies.”  lol. Don the Con.

Policy I like:

• Closing the border

• Attempting to end birthright citizenship

• Many, many pro-2A actions by the administration

• Tariffs (hate how he tried it, love that it's back on the table)

• H1B and other visa fees

• Maduro

• All anti-trans-normalization policy

• Deregulation

• Energy production, pipeline approval, drilling expansion

• Massive shift in nuclear energy policy

• Attacking racist admission policies at public colleges

• Judicial appointments (any conservative would have done this)

• Welfare work requirements

• Moving federal agencies out of DC

• Schedule F reform

• Reducing funding for planned parenthood

• Dismantling "climate-change" policy

• Waters of the US reform

• Support for Israel

• Abraham accords

• Fucking up Iran

• Even more

That doesn't mean he's succeeded on these, but I don't think even you would claim Kamala would have been better for these policies, other than maybe nuclear energy.

Obviously you don't agree with these policy preferences, so you don't agree with the vote. But you have to be literally retarded to be confused as to why someone who is conservative wouldn't prefer Kamala who is the enemy of conservative policy, simply because she lies, cheats, and steals in a more dignified manner.

It used to be that the Democrats made excuses for the politicians they knew were lying to them and Republicans believed they had the honorable representatives. Now that seems to completely have flipped, and the liberals actually think their politicians are good people, and the conservatives are making the deals with the devil. Funny times

Back to Iran with Jim Mattis. Recorded in March but this is the first I've seen it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Yrs7aMUi5A

Edited 6 hours ago6 hr by StoleIt

23 hours ago, Lord Ratner said:

Now that the DNC is being steered by the progressives (and not the Clinton style liberals), there's no question for a conservative. Progressives are proudly and loudly vilifying the institutions and norms that conservatives believe made our society possible and prosperous.

The fact these 2 sentences are right next to each other is hilarious.

You think the DNC, who's actively campaigning against the progressive/left half of their candidates is being run by progressives? As a guy in the actual political shit right now, this is a ludicrous statement.

Vilifying intuitions and norms that made our society possible and prosperous...Jesus Christ. The last 2 years have been a wrecking ball to that, but I guess you didn't mind those institutions and norms getting torched?

Any way, we win this war yet? Oh nope, TACO TRUMP again.

49 minutes ago, 17D_guy said:

The fact these 2 sentences are right next to each other is hilarious.

You think the DNC, who's actively campaigning against the progressive/left half of their candidates is being run by progressives? As a guy in the actual political shit right now, this is a ludicrous statement.

Vilifying intuitions and norms that made our society possible and prosperous...Jesus Christ. The last 2 years have been a wrecking ball to that, but I guess you didn't mind those institutions and norms getting torched?

Any way, we win this war yet? Oh nope, TACO TRUMP again.

On the first point, both parties are in a civil war of sorts against the nuts. Progressives on the left, populists on the right. And the right is catching up to the left in the game of "defend your side no matter what." That's almost certainly because of Trump smashing all the old conservative value norms. But the crazy policies of the populists are nowhere near as damaging (by my political calculus) as the crazy policies of the progressives. One is very much worse.

As far as institutions go, which ones do you believe the right/Trump is destroying? I can tell you which ones I disagree with or agree with.

On the left, it's packing the Supreme Court, eliminating the electoral college, using federal law to trump states' rights, attacking the 2A, etc etc. you know... All that minor constitutional stuff.

I find it funny how many people on the left love the TACO meme. It's really Trump-Always-Choses-The-Stock-Market.

Personally I'd love to see a 50-75% market crash, but there's not much difference between my friends and family on the right and left as far as their reliance on the stock market for their personal wealth. Everyone with a 401k with an S&P or bond fund should be kissing his feet for "chickening out."

Edited 54 minutes ago54 min by Lord Ratner