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Re: Trump fires Pam Bondi as attorney general

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Post by bobchadwick » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 1:42 PM UTC

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #44

salawat wrote: post #36

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I don't think we should change it. I think we as a nation need to understand the person we put in that office has that power, and choose accordingly . It's there for a reason. Sometimes, it's perfectly acceptable for the President to say "fuck this shit" for the good of the Nation. With that power though, comes the responsibility to wield it with respect. This country put the man abusing it in power . No one had seco…

> This country put the man abusing it in power. Twice. I can forgive the mistake once, but this is the second time in 10 years that America is facing this nonsense with the exact same demagogue.

We also re-elected Bush Jr. after he started the disastrous war in Iraq, along with doing a bunch of other terrible shit. Is it really that surprising that Trump was elected twice?

Re: Trump fires Pam Bondi as attorney general

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 2:54 PM UTC

pseudohadamard wrote: post #96

salawat wrote: post #57

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We had safety measures. It was called the Electoral College, and the entire reason it was put there was to get a small group of people separated from groupthink to really think " Are you SURE this is the right candidate?" Then states decided to pass laws to penalize the act of being a faithless elector, which is EXACTLY the mechanism of protection to keep a demagogue out of office. You can't sit here and whine about…

That's what continues to amaze me about this, there's numerous news stories saying his approval rating is down to 33% but what it actually means is that fully a third of all Americans are quite happy with having a dementia patient running the country. All it then takes is another 20% who aren't that happy but also not unhappy enough to do anything for him to keep pushing the US further off the cliff. At the risk of i…

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Re: Trump fires Pam Bondi as attorney general

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Post by Tadpole9181 » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 3:05 PM UTC

fhdkweig wrote: post #83

elzbardico wrote: post #69

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> two senile pedophiles as president in sequnce two? Who was the one other than Trump? (Which we don't even know that one for sure. We just know he protects them from prosecution)

Trump openly stated one of the perks of running an underage beauty pageant was being able to walk in on them in the dressing room.

He has himself admitted to being a pedophile...

Re: Trump fires Pam Bondi as attorney general

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Post by lopsotronic » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 3:21 PM UTC

josefritzishere wrote: post #3

If there are still history books in the future... what will they think of all this?

Taking the long term view, our system's failure will be seen as distinctly parallel to the failure of the Soviet system[1] - dual headstones of the European Era. I suspect that the common collapse will be seen not a result of any inferior ideological or economic systems, but a common lifecycle stage for all nuclear powers.

There's a mechanism deep inside the fundamentals of strategic nuclear weapons that has permanent and profound effects on the society and nation holding them[2]. One obvious thing that is easy to perceive even from our own vantage point: nuclear powers suffer from an always-expanding executive branch. Nuclear weapons make the Westphalian state system structurally obsolete . . but we have no replacement, so we're left with zombies. The nuclear states inevitably evolve into these sort of executive-branch security zombies, able to fixate on nothing but destruction.

I'm not going to pretend I have the answers here, but, well, we need to stick around for the future histories, don't we?

[1] The Soviet system having the disadvantage of being beaten the hell up by the great wars of the 20th century. You don't lose 2/3rd of your working age men and just go back to the mines like normal.

[2] Vaclav Smil has written extensively on energy transitions, and the quantitative point is incontrovertible: the jump from chemical to nuclear energy release is on the order of a million-fold, comparable in magnitude to the jump from metabolic to combustion energy. When genus Homo tamed fire, it forced speciation. We would be fools to expect less from the power of the atom.

Re: Trump fires Pam Bondi as attorney general

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Post by fhdkweig » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 6:50 PM UTC

Tadpole9181 wrote: post #113

fhdkweig wrote: post #83

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> two senile pedophiles as president in sequnce two? Who was the one other than Trump? (Which we don't even know that one for sure. We just know he protects them from prosecution)

Trump openly stated one of the perks of running an underage beauty pageant was being able to walk in on them in the dressing room. He has himself admitted to being a pedophile...

I can't believe you are making me defend this guy.

It is creepy as shit and I wouldn't allow him near my kids, but there is a very specific legal definition of pedophile and looking isn't the same as touching. It dilutes the term when you use it the wrong way.

Re: Trump fires Pam Bondi as attorney general

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Post by krapp » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 7:13 PM UTC

fhdkweig wrote: post #115

Tadpole9181 wrote: post #113

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Trump openly stated one of the perks of running an underage beauty pageant was being able to walk in on them in the dressing room. He has himself admitted to being a pedophile...

I can't believe you are making me defend this guy. It is creepy as shit and I wouldn't allow him near my kids, but there is a very specific legal definition of pedophile and looking isn't the same as touching. It dilutes the term when you use it the wrong way.

>It is creepy as shit and I wouldn't allow him near my kids, but there is a very specific legal definition of pedophile and looking isn't the same as touching. It dilutes the term when you use it the wrong way.

Then why wouldn't you allow him near your kids? If he isn't legally speaking a pedophile, what would you be worried about?

If it were the case that "looking isn't the same as touching", child porn wouldn't be illegal. Trump is a pedophile because he's attracted to underage girls, he isn't not a pedophile if he looks but doesn't touch.

And there is a mountain of (granted circumstantial) evidence from the Epstein files that have been released to suggest he's probably done more than just look.

Re: Trump fires Pam Bondi as attorney general

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Post by fhdkweig » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 7:23 PM UTC

krapp wrote: post #116

fhdkweig wrote: post #115

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I can't believe you are making me defend this guy. It is creepy as shit and I wouldn't allow him near my kids, but there is a very specific legal definition of pedophile and looking isn't the same as touching. It dilutes the term when you use it the wrong way.

>It is creepy as shit and I wouldn't allow him near my kids, but there is a very specific legal definition of pedophile and looking isn't the same as touching. It dilutes the term when you use it the wrong way. Then why wouldn't you allow him near your kids? If he isn't legally speaking a pedophile, what would you be worried about? If it were the case that "looking isn't the same as touching", child porn wouldn't be…

I want to see him die in prison.

I only care about the legal definitions because that's how you get someone arrested, convicted, and thrown in jail forever.

Re: Trump fires Pam Bondi as attorney general

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Post by NewJazz » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 7:43 PM UTC

JKCalhoun wrote: post #104

NewJazz wrote: post #90

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Who?

Random news article I pulled up: "FBI Director Kash Patel is reportedly seeking to release files related to the Democratic lawmaker's previous association with a suspected Chinese intelligence operative."

Why would Bondi have ties to this drama?

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Post by QuantumGood » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 7:56 PM UTC

QuantumGood wrote: post #64

jamesgill wrote: post #51

The bus is always idling at the curb; Trump cronies never seem to realize that eventually, everyone gets thrown under it.

Bondi lasted a record 38 Scaramuccis

  • Bondi lasted 423 days, from 2/5/25 through 4/2/26
  • One “Scaramucci” ≈ 11 days
  • 38×11 = 418 days

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Post by krapp » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 9:56 PM UTC

fhdkweig wrote: post #117

krapp wrote: post #116

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>It is creepy as shit and I wouldn't allow him near my kids, but there is a very specific legal definition of pedophile and looking isn't the same as touching. It dilutes the term when you use it the wrong way. Then why wouldn't you allow him near your kids? If he isn't legally speaking a pedophile, what would you be worried about? If it were the case that "looking isn't the same as touching", child porn wouldn't be…

I want to see him die in prison. I only care about the legal definitions because that's how you get someone arrested, convicted, and thrown in jail forever.

He's already been found liable for sexual assault, and I don't doubt a case for pedophilia could stick if the standard is beyond a reasonable doubt - he drew a picture of a naked girl on a birthday card for Epstein FFS. Just his conspiracy to keep the Epstein files hidden and protect anyone culpable (in his party) alone would put him in jail until he died if SCOTUS hadn't decided that anything a sitting President did while in office was legal.

Unfortunately he's going to die a free and wealthy man, and be buried with honors. All we can hope is that he does it soon and that he soils himself on the way out.