All Things Trump: The Return Of The King

[Brian Peacock]

Liberty bell for a bellend.

[Sean Hayden]

Somebody used twat waffle recently, and I love it. It’s a bit too nice for Trump though.

[Tero]

[Brian Peacock]

Somebody used twat waffle recently, and I love it. It’s a bit too nice for Trump though.

Dick Wang. Just sayin'.

[Sean Hayden]

Doubly dickish, I like it.

[Tero]

https://www.threads.com/@annazarves/pos ... 63m&slof=1
U.S. national debt has surpassed the size of the GDP.

The last time this was the case was in 1946, because of Nazis.

This time it is, ironically, also because of nazis.

[aufbahrung]

[aufbahrung]

I hope that I die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather.
Not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car

[Svartalf]

a shame that voting is anonymous, because seriously, anybody who ever voted for the unmentionable, at any time and any stage of either of his nominations and presidencies should be deprived for life of political rights, possibly even of the right to pass citizenship on to their progeny.

[aufbahrung]

Oil running low - as soon as the reality of the empty barrels hits in the next few months...kansas goes bye-byes - petrodollar crash etc...'merica turns into a normal nation with normal imports/exports - the secret plan, Trump so rich cos Americans so poor...?

[Tero]

After taking all the uranium and placing Marco Rubio as head of Democratic Iran he will stop at Cuba:
https://www.threads.com/@republicansaga ... 1T4&slof=1
NEW: Trump says the U.S. will take over Cuba “almost immediately.”

“On the way back from Iran we’ll have one of our big, maybe the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, come in, stop about 100 yards offshore and they’ll say, ‘Thank you very much, we give up.’”

[aufbahrung]

Florida ready for the influx of refugees?

[Brian Peacock]

a shame that voting is anonymous, because seriously, anybody who ever voted for the unmentionable, at any time and any stage of either of his nominations and presidencies should be deprived for life of political rights, possibly even of the right to pass citizenship on to their progeny.

I'm picking up what you're putting down - but it's a complete non-starter of an idea isn't it?

[Svartalf]

well, the more I see, the more I believe that the demos should be only made up of those with enough brains to make proper use of their political rights... for decades I despised Plato and his philosopher kings, but maybe, just maybe, he actually was on to something.

[Tero]

AI winning war in Iran. Trump wants battleships.

"Meanwhile, Iran is betting that by choking off the Strait of Hormuz — and driving up gasoline and food prices for Americans and all their allies — it can force Trump to eventually act in accord with his TACO label: Trump always chickens out."

"The real question is: How in the world has Iran’s regime lasted this long — two months — against the combined military might of Israel and America? The answer: Trump does not understand how much asymmetric warfare has reshaped geopolitics in just the last few years."

"In other words, we’re already in a new era in which small powers and small groups can leverage information-age tools — guided by GPS and digitally controlled — to gain asymmetric advantages."
"Trump recklessly started this war without allies, without any scenario planning and, obviously, without any real understanding of Iran’s assets in asymmetric warfare. Nevertheless, it would be a disaster for the region and the world if Iran’s malign regime emerges from this war intact and unreformed, because an even more powerful asymmetric tool kit for bad guys is just arriving.

"Here’s what’s truly new and disturbing: We are rapidly moving from the age of asymmetric warfare based on information-age tools that can wreak mass disruption to what my technology tutor, Craig Mundie, a former head of research and strategy at Microsoft, calls an age of asymmetric warfare based on “intelligence-age tools” that can cheaply wreak disruption at a much larger scale anywhere on demand."
"These intelligence-age “capabilities that can superempower individuals, that many thought were 18 months or two years away, are now here,” Mundie told me. “When the dual-use nature of these A.I. technologies becomes fully democratized — and that is where we are heading soon — they will present a material threat to all developed societies” by superempowered actors “who historically never had any cards to play before at all.”

"In other words, everybody with an A.I. chatbot/agent is potentially going to have cards."
"It is hard to exaggerate how destabilizing these rapid advances in A.I. sophistication could become, and it is why Mundie and I have been arguing for a while now that the United States and China, the two A.I. superpowers, need to figure out how they can (and surely will) continue to compete strategically while cooperating to neutralize these new asymmetric intelligence-age threats — not unlike what the United States and the U.S.S.R. did to limit the proliferation of nuclear weapons in the Cold War.

"Otherwise, neither of them will be safe. Nor will anyone else be."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/opin ... china.html