15 comments

  • jqpabc123 15 hours ago

    Personal opinion: Netty blackmailing Trump is the only scenario that even remotely makes sense.

    Nothing about this fits with "America First".

    • scarecrowbob 11 hours ago

      What could possibly be the content of that blackmail? It feels like every couple of months some new horror drops, yet there he is, chuggin along.

      • jqpabc123 10 hours ago

        What could possibly be the content of that blackmail?

        Really? Trump's best friend was a pedophile.

        Putin and Netty probably have pictures and video.

        • yongjik 10 hours ago

          It might have started that way (I dunno) but these days it feels like just Trump being senile and incapable of admitting he made a mistake.

          After all, MAGA supports Trump no matter what. ICE murdered two US citizens already. Trump could shoot a baby in Times Square and I don't think it will ever go below 30%.

          But once you raise gas prices, that affects everyone's living cost. I don't think whatever video Epstein made could ever match that. (And these days MAGA will wave it away with "guh it's clearly AI, you libtards." You can't do that at gas station.)

        • krapp 10 hours ago

          >Really? Trump's best friend was a pedophile.

          That was known before he ran in 2016, it didn't matter. Trump admitted that his wealth and celebrity made it easy to sexually assault women on tape and it only made him more popular to his base. And plenty of damaging images and far more direct links to pedophilia have come from the Epstein file releases since, despite the administration's best efforts. Where can you go after the allegation that Donald Trump punched an underage girl in the head after she bit his dick goes public and goes nowhere?

          Honestly I don't think more pictures and more video is going to move the needle. Either you already accept that Donald Trump is very likely a pedophile based on the preponderance of evidence or you don't care. No one is going to be Pikachu face shocked by anything anyone could reveal at this point.

          • jqpabc123 10 hours ago

            So you don't think that video of Epstein and Trump molesting an underage girl would have any impact?

            • krapp 10 hours ago

              There is already plenty of evidence and people have already made their minds up one way or the other.

              Video would have some impact but only in the sense of throwing more kindling on the fire.

              • jqpabc123 9 hours ago

                Video would have some impact but only in the sense of throwing more kindling on the fire.

                Exactly the sort of thing Trump might be inclined to try and avoid prior to an election.

                • krapp 9 hours ago

                  That makes sense for the first term but not the current one. Unless he plans a coup he can't run for a third term, he has nothing to lose.

                  • jqpabc123 2 hours ago

                    The way things are looking, he may need to rig an election just to finish out this term.

    • JojoFatsani 13 hours ago

      Ocham’s Razor suggests he is a narcissist surrounded by sycophants

    • bdangubic 13 hours ago

      for anyone that actually bought “America First” I have some Enron stock options to sell

    • kwertyoowiyop 15 hours ago

      It’s less appalling to believe that Trump’s worst decisions are made under duress.

    • TacticalCoder 13 hours ago

      > ... is the only scenario that even remotely makes sense

      I've got another one although it may not be that incompatible with your scenario...

      What do you think a country willing to slaughter (January 2026) 30 000+ of its own people, sending islamists with assault weapons in hospitals to finish the wounded (and unarmed) and hanging publicly his athletes would do once it gets the atomic bomb?

      Really: what do you think a country like that shall do?

      I've got another one: one they'll have nuked Israel out of the world, do you think islamists are going to stop there?

      Now we get to your scenario: maybe Netty knows Iran nuking Israel with the atomic bomb is coming and maybe it's blackmailing Trump (maybe for example Trump was in a threesome with Bill Gates when Bill Gates, factually, caught STDs on Epstein's island: who knows!?)...

      But that still doesn't change my question: what is a regime made of murderers capable of killing 30 000 unarmed of its own people going to do to "infidels" all around the world once it'll be done with Israel?

      • jqpabc123 10 hours ago

        Here is how your scenario breaks down.

        1) According to Trump, their nuclear program was "obliterated" months ago.

        2) They still have enriched uranium.

        3) The Islamists are still in control --- only now it's the more extreme elements.

        4) Unless Trump is preparing for a ground invasion to occupy the country, they will now be pursuing a nuclear weapon at all costs and as soon as possible.

        The overall effect of the US attack may well be to make your nuclear horror scenario more likely. Let's see where we stand once TACO is done.