dsdfghghfsdflgkfgkja: 07/18/25

Friday, July 18, 2025

he would, of course, just pardon himself. and he would.

following the precedent set by biden, he could even pardon himself for any future indictments, that haven't yet been defined.

i mean, this is how trump thinks. these are the things trump is likely actually concerned about.

i'm not sure he'd even care if there was evidence of him having sex with a 17 year old from twenty years ago. my read is that there isn't, but i don't think it's what he's actually thinking about.

the other thing you should realize about epstein and trump is that this is the trump show. this is not the epstein show. do you think he wants to get upstaged by this dead guy?

i'm also thinking about what would happen next if the fbi actually released a list of wealthy pedophiles.

the answer is they'd all fly to countries where the us justice system can't get them, like russia or china.

that can't be what anybody actually wants.

rather, if you want to catch anybody that the department has a lead on, it's better to let them explore the lead on their own terms, and wait until they can move to indict.

i mean, maybe there's a basic disconnect here. this isn't a political issue. this is a legal issue. it's not about ruining the political lives of anybody involved, it's about trying to press charges against them.

this request to release a list of people the fbi is investigating consequently doesn't make any sense, unless you're on the list and want to know to flee the country.

why exactly is it that democrats care so much about muslims and so little about the poor?

because muslims have better lobbyists.

that is the actual truth.

the reason that politicians seek the influence of muslim voters, and powerful muslim lobby groups that often represent foreign governments rather than local voters, is precisely because they have large amounts of money to contribute to their political campaigns. that's the point. the arab blood money has deep, deep pockets.

transgendered people are a repressed minority on this continent, and increasingly so.

muslims are not. they are a part of the elite.

the reason trump won in 2016 was because he was the centrist candidate. rubio, cruz and kasich were far right. he swung to the extremes in the election to get the vote out and it worked. it's never been where he is in the spectrum. he's always been a liberal republican.

he's a lame duck now.

he should rebrand back to the center and try to take some of these freaks down.

if there's some conflict developing between pam bondi and the maga losers, trump should fire the maga losers. ms bondi appears to be the only person around him that is halfways educated and moderately bright. she's an asset. people like laura loomer and marjorie taylor greene are liabilities.

in fact, it might be good for the country for trump to primary some of these losers and get rid of them.

maybe we should just donate all the cheap steel to russia, or to starving construction firms in africa.

again.

what they're doing is trying to build a wall around a us-canada economic zone by unilaterally aligning with us policy in the hopes the white house will change it's mind, and it's so delusional and stupid that it's borderline treason. that is the way this should increasingly be looked at, as the canadian government continues to make decisions that are not in the best interests of canadians.

is the construction industry complaining that the cost of steel is too low?

what the fuck?

it's not a problem. it's cheap capital input.

we should take as much cheap steel as we can get. it will lower prices.

why are we so fucking stupid? do we want inflation?

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/tariffs/2025/07/18/understanding-canadas-moves-to-block-cheap-steel-imports/

don't let their propaganda confuse you. you're being brainwashed.

they represent a far right, extremely social conservative political agenda that wants to turn the clocks back to the dark ages. as hitchens said, they pose as victims, but they aren't. they masquerade on the left, but they don't exist in it. they have tremendous wealth, tremendous influence and tremendous power. they pose a serious threat to the secular foundations of western democracy that needs to be taken seriously and blocked before it gets a toehold on power, which they will use to enforce their religion on everybody.

i don't want people of any faith making political decisions; i don't care if you're a christian, a muslim, a hindu, a jew, a sikh, whatever. if i think you believe in god, i won't vote for you. if you tell me you believe in god, i'll campaign against you.

i've been targeted by muslims here in windsor, but i might have been targeted by christians, and i wouldn't react differently if it was christians that were attacking me. that's not what i'm dealing with.

we need to address this problem head on, to ensure that our secular political institutions don't get taken over by backwards religious ideologies. it's imperative and sort of an emergency, and it's going to remain that way for at least a generation, until we can find some way to strip muslim immigrants of their faith, and assimilate them into the secular culture. that's going to be a serious challenge, but we succeeded in secularizing the irish and italians and jews and forcing them to abandon their faiths and we will succeed in secularizing the muslims and stripping them of their faith, too.

in the short run, until they are assimilated, they can't be in government making decisions. i would not welcome them, as i would not welcome christians, and i would not welcome jews or sikhs.

if you let them turn the clocks back, they will. for now, we still have a democracy, and we can still use it to keep them out of power.

muslims are one of the most successful demographic groups in the country.

there is no systemic discrimination against muslims in north america. there is, however, a lot of healthy apprehension about the consequences of allowing people that adhere to religious ideologies to make political decisions, and that apprehension should be adhered to.

if it turns out that new yorkers decide they don't want to be ruled by a muslim, that's a valid expression of democracy, and one i'd be in agreement with.

there's nothing wrong with that, and americans should take offense to and push pack against the idea that there is. the west has already been through the difficult process of being colonized by and getting rid of christianity; it has good reason to want to learn from it's mistakes, and not want to turn the clocks back to christian hegemony.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/18/zohran-mamdani-islamophobia-new-york-mayor

what trump actually did with epstein is likely equivalent to behaving like an immature, wealthy 25 year old male, when he was 50. there's likely dozens or hundreds of reasons for him to be ashamed and embarrassed, in hindsight. i don't suspect there's many reasons to send him to jail.

what is my reading on this?

my reading on this is that it was trump that went after epstein in the first place. trump is obviously trying to hide something, but it might be the opposite of what you think.

i don't doubt that trump probably has some skeletons in his closet. i think he's gay. however, my perception is that that's just exactly the point - it was trump that had the data to put epstein away, not the other way around. look at the women that trump has spent time with publicly, and compare them to ghislaine maxwell.

my guess is that trump is embarrassed and rightfully so and that he would have been a key witness against epstein, but i strongly doubt that he has much to answer for himself. that's my perception.

want better answers? subpoena melania.