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[Welsh Exile]

You ok hun? You seem to be having a random conversation with.... yourself!

I know, seems like that these days. I really wanted to know more about this plot but never got an answer.

 

[dirty harry]

I didnt have 'Algae lives matter' protests on my 2026 bingo card, the reflecting pool has become such a battle ground, Trump is mocked for errors, bit also there has been a dozen arrests of people vandalising the pool, acosting national park workers, and the fight against Algae has attracted pro Algae protestors hahahaha

Is America even a real place anymore?

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

https://courthousenews.com/trump-refuses-to-sign-document-affirming-end-of-slush-fund/

Surprise surprise the Trump administration is refusing to sign documents under threat of perjury that the slush fund they created for Trump loyalists, off the back of the court case where he sued his own administration, is dead.

 

[Quel Carreleur]

Kash Patel announces the FBI found supplies of algae seeds when they raided Antifa headquarters.



It’s not uncommon for someone to lose a war to an intellectually superior enemy.
In this case Trump lost to algae.

 

[Welsh Exile]

ANTIFA headquarters?

Are they just making places up now?

 

[dirty harry]

Kash Patel announces the FBI found supplies of algae seeds when they raided Antifa headquarters.



It’s not uncommon for someone to lose a war to an intellectually superior enemy.
In this case Trump lost to algae.

Algae Lives matter!

 

[Saintjay]

ANTIFA headquarters?

Are they just making places up now?

Found inside a volcano.

 

[ChicagoKid]

Happy Father’s Day to all! If your father is alive, don’t forget to call him today.

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/17/kash-patel-slush-fund-bonus-loyalist-agents

Kash Patel appears to have been siphoning off money from the FBI to pay massive bonuses to a small inner circle of loyalists. These payments appear to have been so large and frequent that they burned through the FBI funding and actually caused some of the payments to bounce.

Republicans in the house judiciary committee are unlikely to compel the FBI to provide the required documents but it's not a good look, on top of everything else relating to Patel.

 

[mackerzz]

I have always said Trump is a massive twat, I just have also thought he was the best option at the time of the elections (on a bad bunch).

Also say that because it fuks my Dad off. (he hates the guy)

 

[mackerzz]

Well Trump just used the G7 to smear Obama and claimed the Iranians thought he was a "stupid son of a *****".

Even for the crowd that accept Trumps vulgarity, this must be stepping over the line. It's incredible how easily his followers accept the complete abandonment of any sense of decency or decorum from Trump.

Probably a dumb question, but what did he say about Obama?

 

[Quel Carreleur]

I see negotiations in Geneva are going well...
Here's an idea - I know t might e considered novel, but... have you tried NOT threatening to assassinate the negotiators?
You never know, it might just help give the impression that you're negotiating in good faith.

 

[Welsh Exile]

I have always said Trump is a massive twat, I just have also thought he was the best option at the time of the elections (on a bad bunch).

Also say that because it fuks my Dad off. (he hates the guy)

Well that has categorically been proven to be false. She wouldn’t have been as currupt as Trump who has enriched himself since winning last time with his dodgy crypto schemes.

I think it’s fair to say that Harris wouldn’t have gone to war in Iran and wouldn’t have just gone along with everything Netanyahu says. That alone would’ve saved America a boat load of cash and, you know, would’ve saved a few lives and all that.

She wouldn’t have tariffed the whole ******* planet. She wouldn’t have tarnished the USA’s relationship with her allies. I believe she would’ve taken stronger action in support of our allies like Ukraine and against our enemies like Putin.

The list is endless really. But here we are, people still contend he was a better option. Unbelievable really.

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Probably a dumb question, but what did he say about Obama?

He said what I just quoted...

 

[mackerzz]

He said what I just quoted...

Fair enough . I didn't read anything you said

 

[mackerzz]

Well that has categorically been proven to be false. She wouldn’t have been as currupt as Trump who has enriched himself since winning last time with his dodgy crypto schemes.

I think it’s fair to say that Harris wouldn’t have gone to war in Iran and wouldn’t have just gone along with everything Netanyahu says. That alone would’ve saved America a boat load of cash and, you know, would’ve saved a few lives and all that.

She wouldn’t have tariffed the whole ******* planet. She wouldn’t have tarnished the USA’s relationship with her allies. I believe she would’ve taken stronger action in support of our allies like Ukraine and against our enemies like Putin.

The list is endless really. But here we are, people still contend he was a better option. Unbelievable really.

i never said i still think he was the better option...... I just said I did then. Partly to annoy my dad

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Fair enough . I didn't read anything you said

You responded to a comment you didn't get to the end of the first line for?

 

[mackerzz]

You responded to a comment you didn't get to the end of the first line for?

Sounds about right for me yeah

 

[Quel Carreleur]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/24/prairieland-texas-ice-protests-zines

‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison​

Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility




Quoting a reaction from elsewhere:


These sentences are ridiculous. A huge threat to the possibility of a democratic society. The prosecution is rife with constitutional violations, but 30 years in prison (more than anyone for January 6) for moving some magazines? 50 years in prison even for those not involved in planning the protest? The evidence of an illegal conspiracy is non-existent, but this is how the authoritarian dragnet targets those fighting against repression.

One of the most dangerous and common forms of unconstitutional repression of the left is when the government takes one criminal act and exponentially expands liability for it through the unconstitutional targeting of peripheral people based on their political values using legal mechanisms designed to give the state maximum discretion to crush or to pardon whoever it wants. It's a classic tool of authoritarian repression, and it requires enormous vigilance in the legal system and especially vigilant judges, which in this case not only grossly abdicated that responsibility, but became an active participant in injustice.

But this has been their tactic for almost a decade now. They got their perfect storm. Texas, Texas jurors, Trump appointed or supporting judges that have no issue being political activists for the fascist takeover of the US and attempts to stomp out dissent.

We are seeing them round up protesters in Minnesota, some for just the words they posted online like "become ungovernable".

 

[dirty harry]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/24/prairieland-texas-ice-protests-zines

‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison​

Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility




Quoting a reaction from elsewhere:


These sentences are ridiculous. A huge threat to the possibility of a democratic society. The prosecution is rife with constitutional violations, but 30 years in prison (more than anyone for January 6) for moving some magazines? 50 years in prison even for those not involved in planning the protest? The evidence of an illegal conspiracy is non-existent, but this is how the authoritarian dragnet targets those fighting against repression.

One of the most dangerous and common forms of unconstitutional repression of the left is when the government takes one criminal act and exponentially expands liability for it through the unconstitutional targeting of peripheral people based on their political values using legal mechanisms designed to give the state maximum discretion to crush or to pardon whoever it wants. It's a classic tool of authoritarian repression, and it requires enormous vigilance in the legal system and especially vigilant judges, which in this case not only grossly abdicated that responsibility, but became an active participant in injustice.

But this has been their tactic for almost a decade now. They got their perfect storm. Texas, Texas jurors, Trump appointed or supporting judges that have no issue being political activists for the fascist takeover of the US and attempts to stomp out dissent.

We are seeing them round up protesters in Minnesota, some for just the words they posted online like "become ungovernable".

You dont seem to have posted your thoughts...

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/24/prairieland-texas-ice-protests-zines

‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison​

Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility




Quoting a reaction from elsewhere:


These sentences are ridiculous. A huge threat to the possibility of a democratic society. The prosecution is rife with constitutional violations, but 30 years in prison (more than anyone for January 6) for moving some magazines? 50 years in prison even for those not involved in planning the protest? The evidence of an illegal conspiracy is non-existent, but this is how the authoritarian dragnet targets those fighting against repression.

One of the most dangerous and common forms of unconstitutional repression of the left is when the government takes one criminal act and exponentially expands liability for it through the unconstitutional targeting of peripheral people based on their political values using legal mechanisms designed to give the state maximum discretion to crush or to pardon whoever it wants. It's a classic tool of authoritarian repression, and it requires enormous vigilance in the legal system and especially vigilant judges, which in this case not only grossly abdicated that responsibility, but became an active participant in injustice.

But this has been their tactic for almost a decade now. They got their perfect storm. Texas, Texas jurors, Trump appointed or supporting judges that have no issue being political activists for the fascist takeover of the US and attempts to stomp out dissent.

We are seeing them round up protesters in Minnesota, some for just the words they posted online like "become ungovernable".

That is absurd. Getting much harsher sentences than the people who actually stormed the capitol on Jan 6th is ridiculous, especially given there doesn't appear to be evidence that many of these people were involved in the actual criminal behaviour, merely associated with people who were.

 

[dirty harry]

That is absurd. Getting much harsher sentences than the people who actually stormed the capitol on Jan 6th is ridiculous, especially given there doesn't appear to be evidence that many of these people were involved in the actual criminal behaviour, merely associated with people who were.

Really? Werent they arrested, dressed in black uniform, military equipment and armed fleeing the scene of the violence?

 

[Quel Carreleur]

Make Algae Great Again

 

[Quel Carreleur]

British woman is drugged, raped and strangled by an American man, in Britain - man bypasses the British courts, to be tried by American men.



https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...n-strangled-by-us-pilot-britain-airbase-trial

Bizarre questions and an all-male ‘jury’: woman strangled by US pilot in Britain tells of airbase trial​

Sarah Steele waives anonymity to call for greater scrutiny of how US military courts are allowed to ‘rip apart’ vulnerable witnesses in the UK

A woman strangled by an American fighter pilot at his home in an English city has come forward to criticise the handling of his prosecution via a US court martial, a process she described as “military first, justice second”.

ARTICLE CONTINUES...





https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...ot-strangled-woman-england-why-military-trial

‘Degrading’: why did a US fighter pilot avoid British trial after strangling a woman in England?​

Jacob Wulfson’s fellow airmen decided his fate after a court martial at RAF Lakenheath – a distressing week for Sarah Steele, the academic he assaulted.

When Sarah Steele woke up on the morning of 2 December 2023, she found herself in a pool of cold water in a bathtub. She was naked and in the apartment of an American fighter pilot she had met in person for the first time the night before. She was confused. Her head hurt, and so did her neck.
This was the account Steele, a British academic, provided to prosecutors. They later accused the pilot, Capt Jacob Wulfson, of drugging and strangling Steele in his apartment in the east of England, and penetrating her vagina with his penis without her consent.

ARTICLE CONTINUES...

 

[Quel Carreleur]

The ****?
https://petebuttigieg.substack.com/p/a-terrible-thing-happened-to-my-family

 

[dirty harry]

The ****?
https://petebuttigieg.substack.com/p/a-terrible-thing-happened-to-my-family

American politics is a **** show, CPS swatting isnt new, didnt Marjorie Taylor Green make the same claim it happened to her also?

Either way, whether its CPS like Pete B or Marjory TG, racist trolling of young girls, SNL labelling young boys home school shooter, its all gross, and contributes to this toxic atmosphere where a sitting president is being attacked on a semi regular basis, everyone needs to tone down the rhetoric, itll take one brave person to speak up, its a shame Pete didnt see this as a chance to do so.

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

"Everyone needs to tone down the rhetoric, shame Pete didn't see this as a chance to do so"

Pete: literally says it's a problem on both sides and needs to be dealt with
Harry: He's not doing enough.

Trump: enflames things with awful rhetoric
Harry: see are you getting upset because he says nasty things?

Harry's hypocrisy and lies are astonishing

 

[dirty harry]

"Everyone needs to tone down the rhetoric, shame Pete didn't see this as a chance to do so"

Pete: literally says it's a problem on both sides and needs to be dealt with
Harry: He's not doing enough.

Trump: enflames things with awful rhetoric
Harry: see are you getting upset because he says nasty things?

Harry's hypocrisy and lies are astonishing

You might be right, i scanned it so may have missed where he says Republicans and Democrats should stand together, and start working on a more cordial way to politic and lead the country...

Let me know what you find, i wont hold my breathe.

 

[ChicagoKid]

You might be right, i scanned it so may have missed where he says Republicans and Democrats should stand together, and start working on a more cordial way to politic and lead the country...

Let me know what you find, i wont hold my breathe.

Pete is an industrial plant.

 

[dirty harry]

Pete is an industrial plant.

Thats harsh, hes just perfectly straight looking, homosexual, family focused, down with the hood drink water out of brown glass bottle in brown paper bag in public, moderately liberal, highly commincative technotratic, former military pro reform, calm and measured gangster politician who dont take no ****...

I like him.