Because Trump 2.0

[Sinistar]

empathetic people can be the most manipulative

that is what showbiz is based on- if you are in the business of performing because you can read your audience and conceive of what the performance must look like to an audience then that empathy is a manipulative tool - say adding a score to a scene in a film in order to modify audience reactions or provoke them with manipulative music (lighting, camera angles, scene object placement)

 

i think everyone does this on some level whether conscious or unconscious or subconscious in their lives- navigating the world around them

 

look at profession involved in sales, or look at any politician- they try to read or understand their audiences and they modify their behaviors or they break character

 

a confidence scam is the tool of those who can somehow place themselves in the shoes of their target or their audience

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 3 by Sinistar

[Ivanhoe]

An interesting point. Too much legislating from the bench might push SCOTUS into negating a bunch of case law. 

[Murph]

There was an article regarding the DEI hire that Biden put in, and she is there to disrupt, destroy, and prevent the court from having any legitimacy.  I believe that.  I wish I had copied the article, it was a good one.  But there is also this:

https://thefederalist.com/2025/11/03/john-roberts-and-congress-need-to-immediately-stop-gross-ethical-violations-by-federal-judges/

In a recent New York Times article, dozens of inferior court judges violated the Code of Conduct for United States Judges by taking pot shots at the Supreme Court’s emergency docket.

Some judges called Supreme Court reversals “demoralizing,” while others whined that the Supreme Court’s reversals at the very least created the perception of partisanship on the justices’ part, as the Supreme Court mostly has been reversing rulings that had gone against Trump administration policies. One judge compared the relationship between the justices and that judge’s district to “a war zone.”

Article III of the Constitution establishes a judicial hierarchy. At the top is the Supreme Court. It is the final arbiter and head of the judicial branch, just as the sitting president is the head of the executive branch. The Framers, understanding that the Supreme Court could not alone manage all cases, provided for the creation of inferior courts by Congress. Through statutes, Congress has created these, providing for nearly a thousand judgeships on district courts and courts of appeals spread across our country. These inferior courts must follow Supreme Court precedent and the Code of Conduct for United States Judges. Among other things, the code prohibits judges from making political comments or even comments that a reasonable observer could view as such.

The griping of inferior court judges stems from about two dozen rulings on the Supreme Court’s emergency docket. This docket allows justices to pause orders from lower courts while the litigation proceeds. Radicals trying to grind to a halt President Donald Trump’s electoral mandate repeatedly have run to district courts in leftist hellholes like the District of Columbia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, and Boston. The judges there are overwhelmingly radical leftists. Even the Republican appointees are, for the most part, milquetoast because home-state Democrat senators can veto quality conservative nominees thanks to a Senate tradition known as the blue slip. The Supreme Court has correctly reversed absurd inferior court orders issued by judges who refuse to accept that President Trump is implementing an agenda for which the American people voted.

[DKTanker]

8 hours ago, Murph said:

There was an article regarding the DEI hire that Biden put in, and she is there to disrupt, destroy, and prevent the court from having any legitimacy.  I believe that.  I wish I had copied the article, it was a good one.  But there is also this:

https://thefederalist.com/2025/11/03/john-roberts-and-congress-need-to-immediately-stop-gross-ethical-violations-by-federal-judges/

In a recent New York Times article, dozens of inferior court judges violated the Code of Conduct for United States Judges by taking pot shots at the Supreme Court’s emergency docket.

Some judges called Supreme Court reversals “demoralizing,” while others whined that the Supreme Court’s reversals at the very least created the perception of partisanship on the justices’ part, as the Supreme Court mostly has been reversing rulings that had gone against Trump administration policies. One judge compared the relationship between the justices and that judge’s district to “a war zone.”

Article III of the Constitution establishes a judicial hierarchy. At the top is the Supreme Court. It is the final arbiter and head of the judicial branch, just as the sitting president is the head of the executive branch. The Framers, understanding that the Supreme Court could not alone manage all cases, provided for the creation of inferior courts by Congress. Through statutes, Congress has created these, providing for nearly a thousand judgeships on district courts and courts of appeals spread across our country. These inferior courts must follow Supreme Court precedent and the Code of Conduct for United States Judges. Among other things, the code prohibits judges from making political comments or even comments that a reasonable observer could view as such.

The griping of inferior court judges stems from about two dozen rulings on the Supreme Court’s emergency docket. This docket allows justices to pause orders from lower courts while the litigation proceeds. Radicals trying to grind to a halt President Donald Trump’s electoral mandate repeatedly have run to district courts in leftist hellholes like the District of Columbia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, and Boston. The judges there are overwhelmingly radical leftists. Even the Republican appointees are, for the most part, milquetoast because home-state Democrat senators can veto quality conservative nominees thanks to a Senate tradition known as the blue slip. The Supreme Court has correctly reversed absurd inferior court orders issued by judges who refuse to accept that President Trump is implementing an agenda for which the American people voted.

This recent judicial order obligating the Trump administration to make SNAP payments, in contradiction of the law, was a blatantly unconstitutional ruling.  I understand why the Trump administration has acquiesced by not challenging the ruling, it being a political PR thing.  However, the result is to legitimize the actions of the judiciary who are now on record as being the last voice in determining what is and is not an emergency.  What is and is not an emergency is absolutely a political decision and should always be reserved exclusively to the two political branches.  If the executive doesn't believe an emergency exists, the legislature is free to offer its own remedy, and vice versa.

[JWB]

BBC doctored Donald Trump's January 6 speech to make it appear he was encouraging Capitol riot

BBC doctored Donald Trump's January 6 speech to make it appear he was encouraging Capitol riot

[rmgill]

I think the UK's ambassador should be called to the White House for a 'conversation'. 

[Stuart Galbraith]

7 hours ago, JWB said:

BBC doctored Donald Trump's January 6 speech to make it appear he was encouraging Capitol riot

BBC doctored Donald Trump's January 6 speech to make it appear he was encouraging Capitol riot

Unlike what GB News claim, this was NOT at the time. IIRC those speeches were presented live. This was 4 years later during the last election in a half hour documentary.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/03/bbc-report-reveals-bias-donald-trump/

The BBC “doctored” a Donald Trump speech by making him appear to encourage the Capitol Hill riot, according to an internal whistleblowing memo seen by The Telegraph.

A Panorama programme, broadcast a week before the US election, “completely misled” viewers by showing the president telling supporters he was going to walk to the Capitol with them to “fight like hell”, when in fact he said he would walk with them “to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard”.

 

Unworthy of the BBC, yes. Does it change what happened on January 6th? No. Because Trumps secret servicemen were fighting with him to ensure he didnt go to the capitol building, largely because they already realised there was going to be a riot there, even if he didnt.

[Stuart Galbraith]

5 hours ago, rmgill said:

I think the UK's ambassador should be called to the White House for a 'conversation'. 

How about talking about shit that really matters? We can have a conversation about the tarrifs to your best ally that, according to the chancellor, are damaging the UK economy.

But no, the unassailable reputation of Orange Zardoz is more important than details like that.

[rmgill]

Our best ally is crafting state propaganda against our president. 
 

And you’ve been beating this drum for 5 years like an autistic toddler with a toy drum, and you tell me to talk about something that matters?

[Murph]

11 hours ago, rmgill said:

I think the UK's ambassador should be called to the White House for a 'conversation'. 

Yes, and the BBC needs to be kicked out of the US.  Far left islamic propaganda.  

[Murph]

Trump is right the Republicans need to pull their heads out, and start fighting.

[Sinistar]

member of parliament campaigning for mamdani 

Zohran Mamdani gets help from Britain’s Jeremy Corbyn — and riles up Andrew Cuomo – POLITICO

not that i like cuomo

 

this is a vague area that may need to be visited when active politicians are doing this in other countries

 the uk and the eu would likely not tolerate support for what they would deem far right candidates in their own countries from us congress

their domestic mainstream press would be all over it and argue the case for interference from outside their own lane

 

[futon]

In the middle of the on going tug between the R's and Trump and the left, Trump called the left like Kamikaze pilots. To which while I, and Japan's right wing are in principle more aligned with the R's and Trump, sometimes it diverges with regards to the war. Calling them, the young men that were called upon to defend with absolutely ultimate sacrifice the country from unjustified terms of unconditional surrender with a complete unknown future prospect of a new status of becoming completely at mercy to a country an ocean away and the nearby communism ready to flood acrosd the region, as politicians in the D camp in this tug of war jolts the thoughts and memories but pressed down quiet for those common aligned principles that most will not and cannot see. A moment for an expression for those thoughts and memories.

 

Edited November 6 by futon

[Sinistar]

how did the empire of japan treat surrender or capture

they often seem to regard the surrender or capture of others as unworthy of respect by their sadistic behaviors dressed up in bushido code or whatever that was

and they were either demonstrating or openly calling on its populations to invoke it with self sacrifice to the end

what do you think the united states is thinking when it watches the way imperial japan is capable of behaving

i rather doubt the united states was prepared to set up camps with which to experiment on japanese captives but you see japan doing this - in fact the united states actually covered this up as part of the general goodwill towards japan

 

there has been in the united states somewhat of a revisionist mood portraying the japanese as the sole victims in world war II without qualification- often pointing at the forced internment of japanese citizens in the united states and ultimately the bombing of japan the only metrics by which to judge and ignores what imperial japan was up to within its capabilities to do it

 

you even see them doing that in the way they portrayed themselves in their own self image as a young vibrant master race in their own right who should be the stewards of native cultures throughout whatever it is they defined as their domain

which often goes against the politically correct assumption that only white or european races have behaved this way

 

however in this respect the word 'kamikaze' does not per se have a direct correlation- it is just sort of a catch all term for anything that behaves in such an uncompromising matter no matter the costs without of course the cultural significance of the term related to japan

[futon]

The left isn't the only one with NPC's.

One of the tools of trolling is content overflow.

No need to counter artificial overflow.

[Sinistar]

i have never identified as left or right

i came to realize this is not entirely a choice

others will do it for you in relation to how they view themselves

and you watch how everyone around you is behaving in this way

 

maybe i would call myself an un-humanist

because you can see it going back as far as written records

the humanists always point to something wrong and invent some solution for it

and you see it never gets there

even now in the 21st century how is it still doing this after all the progress and sophistication

if you notice how it works

that is the whole cosmic joke

because you cannot

but it evolves continously in the attempt to get there

and you see through the whole sham of things

 

 

[rmgill]

Ask Chinese comfort women how they felt about Japan. 

[DKTanker]

28 minutes ago, rmgill said:

Ask Chinese comfort women how they felt about Japan. 

Oh come on, the both of you.  As I'm sure Futon will agree, it was all for the greater good of the East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.

[futon]

- Dumbing Down

- NPCs

- Resistance Ethos

All part of the seemingly inescapable cycle that each side laments about the other doing. It's as if it was a curse. 

[Murph]

Comey's Daughter Maureen who worked as a persecutor (not prosecutor) tried to get Epstein to admit Trump was on the list and to make up crimes against Trump.  Despicable, she needs prison.  WHY ARE MORE OF THESE SCUMBAGS NOT IN PRISON?!

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/11/06/the-deep-state-may-have-tried-to-frame-trump-with-bogus-epstein-allegations-n4945662

This story could have been ripped straight out of a political thriller. But it’s not fiction; it’s one of the strangest, most revealing twists yet in the never-ending saga of how far some corners of the government were evidently willing to go to weaponize their authority against Donald Trump.

According to a newly uncovered pardon application that Nicholas Tartaglione, a disgraced former cop turned convicted murderer, filed, Jeffrey Epstein allegedly told him that federal prosecutors in New York dangled a deal that could have set Epstein free.

The condition? He would have to agree to implicate President Trump in Epstein’s crimes. Obviously, we know Trump was never involved in Epstein’s criminal activities, but that didn’t matter. According to Tartaglione, proof wasn’t required, just the accusation.

The New York Post obtained Tartaglione’s pardon application, which he filed back in July.

“Prosecutors… told Epstein that if he said President Trump was involved with Esptein’s crimes he would walk free. in a petition to be pardoned,” Tartaglione claims in the application. All Epstein supposedly had to do was say the words, and prosecutors, led by Maurene Comey, would give him his freedom. 

If that name sounds familiar to you, there’s a reason. Maurene Comey is the daughter of former FBI director James Comey, whom Trump fired two years prior.

“Epstein told me that [lead prosecutor] Maurene Comey said that he didn’t have to prove anything, as long as President Trump’s people could not disprove it. According to Maurene Comey, the FBI was ‘her people, not his [President Trump’s],’” Tartaglione says in the application.

Tartaglione says Epstein confided in him about the offer from prosecutors and indicated that “President Trump was not involved in Epstein’s crimes.” Yet Epstein’s denial clearly didn’t deter prosecutors from trying to make him say so.

 

 

 

[Murph]

The bogus "hush money" case is closer to being tossed.  

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/11/06/trumps-bogus-hush-money-conviction-is-one-step-closer-to-being-tossed-n4945677

A federal appeals panel delivered a major win for President Trump on Thursday, breathing new life into his effort to overturn the politically motivated conviction in Manhattan's "hush money" case. The three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit ordered a lower court to take another look at Trump's request to move the case to federal court, where he can argue that the Supreme Court's presidential immunity ruling demands his guilty verdict be thrown out.

Trump’s conviction last year was the product of a rigged trial orchestrated by partisan prosecutor Alvin Bragg and overseen by biased Judge Juan Merchan. Bragg turned what was essentially a minor bookkeeping matter into 34 felony counts, claiming Trump falsified business records to conceal a perfectly legal non-disclosure agreement with Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. The jury — stacked with anti-Trump Democrats — was clearly intent on branding him a “convicted felon” to derail his return to the White House. Merchan later handed down an unconditional discharge, the lightest sentence possible, supposedly to avoid interfering with the presidency. But Trump is appealing the conviction in New York’s appellate court, arguing that the entire case was tainted by evidence the Supreme Court has since ruled off-limits.

Judge Merchan's conduct throughout the trial made his agenda painfully obvious. During sentencing, he repeatedly referred to Trump as "Mr. Trump" instead of "President Trump." That wasn't some innocent slip. It was a deliberate choice by a judge who happens to be a Biden donor, signaling that he cared more about delivering a political hit than impartial justice.

Even CNN legal analyst Elie Honig called the entire prosecution an "ill-conceived, unjustified mess." No one has ever been charged for the actions that landed Trump in that courtroom. Falsifying business records is typically a misdemeanor when it even gets prosecuted at all. But Bragg inflated it to a felony by claiming Trump had "intent" to commit another crime, without ever bothering to specify what that supposed crime was. This was a trial without a crime, so naturally it ended with a sentence without any real punishment.

The appellate judges made it clear they weren't confident that U.S. District Court Judge Alvin Hellerstein properly weighed the issues when he initially denied Trump's motion. The panel pointed out that Hellerstein failed to consider whether evidence introduced at the state trial touched on immunized official acts, or whether presidential immunity fundamentally changed the nature of the prosecution. That's a glaring oversight, and the appeals court wasn't about to let it slide.

 

[DKTanker]

4 hours ago, Murph said:

Comey's Daughter Maureen who worked as a persecutor (not prosecutor) tried to get Epstein to admit Trump was on the list and to make up crimes against Trump.  Despicable, she needs prison.  WHY ARE MORE OF THESE SCUMBAGS NOT IN PRISON?!

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/11/06/the-deep-state-may-have-tried-to-frame-trump-with-bogus-epstein-allegations-n4945662

This story could have been ripped straight out of a political thriller. But it’s not fiction; it’s one of the strangest, most revealing twists yet in the never-ending saga of how far some corners of the government were evidently willing to go to weaponize their authority against Donald Trump.

According to a newly uncovered pardon application that Nicholas Tartaglione, a disgraced former cop turned convicted murderer, filed, Jeffrey Epstein allegedly told him that federal prosecutors in New York dangled a deal that could have set Epstein free.

The condition? He would have to agree to implicate President Trump in Epstein’s crimes. Obviously, we know Trump was never involved in Epstein’s criminal activities, but that didn’t matter. According to Tartaglione, proof wasn’t required, just the accusation.

The New York Post obtained Tartaglione’s pardon application, which he filed back in July.

“Prosecutors… told Epstein that if he said President Trump was involved with Esptein’s crimes he would walk free. in a petition to be pardoned,” Tartaglione claims in the application. All Epstein supposedly had to do was say the words, and prosecutors, led by Maurene Comey, would give him his freedom. 

If that name sounds familiar to you, there’s a reason. Maurene Comey is the daughter of former FBI director James Comey, whom Trump fired two years prior.

“Epstein told me that [lead prosecutor] Maurene Comey said that he didn’t have to prove anything, as long as President Trump’s people could not disprove it. According to Maurene Comey, the FBI was ‘her people, not his [President Trump’s],’” Tartaglione says in the application.

Tartaglione says Epstein confided in him about the offer from prosecutors and indicated that “President Trump was not involved in Epstein’s crimes.” Yet Epstein’s denial clearly didn’t deter prosecutors from trying to make him say so.

 

Double hearsay.  Maybe it is true but I tend to agree as it stands, it's political fiction.

[Murph]

1 hour ago, DKTanker said:

Double hearsay.  Maybe it is true but I tend to agree as it stands, it's political fiction.

I am not sure, it certainly rings true for what they tried to do to Trump.

[futon]

22 hours ago, rmgill said:

Ask Chinese comfort women how they felt about Japan. 

Naturally they have very negative things to say about it. 

But please do continue dumbing down the totality of history. 

Trump was good for slashing woke and the mafia media. While very minor in totality, his voice on Kamikaze pilots reflects incorrect history. He likes simplicity, I get that. And his NYC business flare. I get that too. But I still put forward the memory of Kamikaze pilots. 

It's partly been twisted outside of Japan, like a tough term. Kamikaze drone, for example. No, the memory is different in nature in Japan. 

[rmgill]

Did kamikaze pilots exist? 
 

What was Yamamoto’s expression about US TBM crews at midway? 
 

(Ahh so apocryphal. Phoey. )

Edited November 7 by rmgill