Trump is easily manipulated by anyone who flatters him, but the result is not one Hidden Hand directing him. It's the last person who sucked up to him exercising fleeting influence.
November 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Trump is easily manipulated by anyone who flatters him, but the result is not one Hidden Hand directing him. It's the last person who sucked up to him exercising fleeting influence.
Trump is driving the bus. His mind is porridge, but he created a government that executes whatever stupid whim he has today.
November 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Trump is driving the bus. His mind is porridge, but he created a government that executes whatever stupid whim he has today.
Trump is running the country, viciously and incompetently, surrounded by people who live only to execute his will. There's no hidden hand. It's this loser.
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Trump is running the country, viciously and incompetently, surrounded by people who live only to execute his will. There's no hidden hand. It's this loser.
Reposted by Lindsay Beyerstein
Republicans have constantly said they intended to repeal the 20th century, and Trump sending the Navy to blow up people throughout the Caribbean off the coast of South America is *very* much like how the US treated Latin America a century ago (though early 20th C too).
November 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Republicans have constantly said they intended to repeal the 20th century, and Trump sending the Navy to blow up people throughout the Caribbean off the coast of South America is *very* much like how the US treated Latin America a century ago (though early 20th C too).
I mean, some of them might be deckhands on boats smuggling cocaine to Trinidad or whatever. That's what AP's reporting suggests for some of them. But who cares? This is mass murder of poor fishermen who are trying to feed their families. And as Trump says, fishing boats don't go out anymore.
November 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I mean, some of them might be deckhands on boats smuggling cocaine to Trinidad or whatever. That's what AP's reporting suggests for some of them. But who cares? This is mass murder of poor fishermen who are trying to feed their families. And as Trump says, fishing boats don't go out anymore.
Yeah, I'm not holding my breath that it will ever get before a court.
November 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Yeah, I'm not holding my breath that it will ever get before a court.
Terrorism is force or the threat of force to intimidate or coerce a civilian population. Trump's murder spree ticks all those boxes. The only way to say he's not a terrorist is to say that he's waging some kind of legal war as a head of state, but he's not. So, it's just terrorism.
November 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Terrorism is force or the threat of force to intimidate or coerce a civilian population. Trump's murder spree ticks all those boxes. The only way to say he's not a terrorist is to say that he's waging some kind of legal war as a head of state, but he's not. So, it's just terrorism.