Awesome. Thank you for the tips!

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?

I’ll go do that. Thank you.

You’re not wrong. That’s almost certainly, in part, a driving factor behind the urgency of starting these wars now.

I still wish someone, somewhere could have backed up Geocities. That was a huge chunk of Internet history lost.

100% deserves it for being both stupid and inexcusably cheap.

That’s interesting as heck.

I honestly think this is part of the plan.

If there’s a 9/11 style event before 2028, it will open the door for Donald to became a true dictator, and even better, the American people will line up behind him and support it. (As evidenced by Dubya getting reelected after all the dictator shit he did post-9/11.)

Yours is a very helpful comment. Thank you for replying and have a great day.

Yep, and literally begging our allies to save him.

He’s talking awfully big for a guy getting his ass kicked by a country with a depleted military.

everyone over there in the uNazied States of america needs to not let them forget that they were ok with all the child raping he did over the years,

It’s a nice thought, but Donald and his ilk are never going to be held accountable in any meaningful way. Here, the people in power make sure there’s cover for the criminals, always. Hell, we didn’t even hold the Confederate generals meaningfully accountable and they killed 600,000 American soldiers.

We’re already seeing it. Donald has lost nearly every election in 2025 and 2026, and most are in districts he won by double digits in 2024.

This means that even if he wants to try to fight dirty, he really can’t, because clearly the Republican Party can’t accurately project which districts will be safe in 2026. The downside of all this is that it’s not going to change a whole lot, because Dems are not going to elect 30 Mamdanis or Kat Abughazalehs, and that’s what we need if we want actual opposition.

There’s also value in making him even less popular at home

Abso-fucking-lutely. It gives people cover to oppose him politically, which is desperately needed.

Even though I’m an American, it pleases me that our allies aren’t just going along with it this time. That’s partly why the War on Terror lasted way longer than it should have, and how we were able to destroy millions of people’s lives.

In a war like this, the world gets a vote too, even if Congress won’t hold one.

Same thing happened when Alabama tried what Donald is doing. Mass deportations are very disruptive.

Politicians love them because of the easy, performative cruelty and most politicians are wealthy and insulated from the economic effects, but increased prices, empty schools, and crops dying in the field for lack of field workers have a dramatic effect on local economies.

after his year long backstabbing tour.

It’s wild that someone with his status hasn’t figured out that maybe we shouldn’t bully every single country in the world, if only out of self-preservation and our own self-interest.

I really hate that we as a people no longer care if our presidents have functioning brains.

I remember these discussions being had in the 90’s, and the excuse was always: “But it’ll cost a lot and take decades.”

And now here we are. Decades.

To be fair, it wasn’t people “simply forgetting over generations.”

The other contributing factors you mention are correct, but it’s eminently fair to say people simply forgot. Until 9/11, most Americans had no real connection to anything even resembling war, and the vast majority have no empathy whatsoever for the US genocidal foreign policy.

Hell, we still have whimsical snacks on grocery shelves called ‘bomb pops’ that are colored in red, white, and blue.

The hat thing is just a natural extension of no one in his orbit holding him accountable for decorum ever, which is most evident in his language. Sad to see, but yeah.

It would be nice to see someone, somewhere finally hold him accountable for refusing to pay his bills.