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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« Last post by markjo on June 26, 2025, 08:39:30 PM »Before too long, they might have to start letting the illegals in again so that they have someone to deport.
The Trump administration has set a goal of 3,000 immigration arrests per day, or one million per year, claiming that it is targeting violent criminals. ICE data obtained by the Cato Institute show that over 93 percent of immigrants arrested this fiscal year were never convicted of any violent offenses.
There are a lot of regular posters here clamoring for war, demanding the US continue to support Ukraine and Israel in their wars.If someone else was asking the question, I would reply, " Ask harder."
But, I don't think you want a war.
of course i dont. what normal human would actually want a war (aside from people who get paid to talk about how there should be a war). maybe i need to switch to journalism, id love to make20%70%+ or less than i do now to yell at people why war is coming. also, trump bad, two more weeks, etc...
I don't agree with the people giving even grudging credit to Trump over this. Trump clearly said that there was a ceasefire, and Israel and Iran clearly disregarded him and continued their war. The fact that at a later time Israel and Iran really did agree on a ceasefire doesn't somehow ripple back through time and imbue Trump's impotent declaration with retroactive relevance. No, Trump was bullshitting, because he's a thoroughly stupid man and a habitual liar, and he almost certainly played a very limited role (at best) in the actual ceasefire.I dunno. While I certainly agree that orange man bad, it's not like he announced a ceasefire, then the war continued for another few weeks and then there was a ceasefire. After Trump announced the ceasefire there were some subsequent skirmishes, he yelled at them both and since then the ceasefire has held. Whether it will continue to hold remains to be seen of course. And of course like always he's massively exaggerating how effective everything he does is. But the timing is such that I don't think you can entirely detach the current ceasefire from his actions.
If someone else was asking the question, I would reply, " Ask harder."
But, I don't think you want a war.
Trump's behavior is easily explained by his megalomaniacal, narcissistic, Main Character Syndrome. What's harder to explain is his legions of idiotic followers believing it.Whisper it quietly, but he might have got this one right.He was raised to believe himself to be the best. His brain is just broken and now everything has to be at the extreme. Either extreme great (because he's never wrong according to everyone he pays), or extreme bad (for everything against him).
The ceasefire is holding, for now. Early days yet of course.
And naturally he's going "laa laa laa, can't hear you" at all the intelligence indicating the striker might have not been quite as effective at obliterating the Iranian nuclear sites as he's claiming.
I wonder what is wrong with him that he has to always claim the superlative, always be so absolute. All the "they said this was the greatest..." stuff. Who are "they"? And was it the greatest? (That's just an example, not referring to anything specific, just generally the way he talks such utter bollocks all the time.)
If someone else was asking the question, I would reply, " Ask harder."The "no new wars" president has now begun a war with Iran.
i was promised a war by all the talking heads. where is the war?