U.S. President Donald Trump seemingly discussed the idea of foreign powers taking out California’s most populated cities while delivering a speech at a Republican rally at the Pinnacle Bank Expo in Grand Island, Nebraska Monday evening.

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    ‘The most uneducated buffoon in history stands at a podium, bloated with self-importance, lips pursed like a carnival barker ready to sell turd milk to the unsuspecting. He grins a grotesque smirk stretched across his face as he scrawls his name onto a hollow decree, a sham celebration of the dismantling of knowledge itself. The Department of Education falls, not with a bang, but with wheezing verbs, suffocated under the weight of his own staggering ignorance. Surrounding him are the usual suspects: cowards in expensive suits, servile sycophants clapping like trained seals, and racist opportunistic ghouls picking clean the bones of democracy. Liars, fools, and thieves all parasites fattening themselves on the hardships of the many. They stand in rigid formation, dead-eyed and soulless, their allegiance sworn not to country, not to principle, but to power, and the dark, festering rot that clings to it. And there he is the convicted wrong, the living embodiment of septic tank spew, his voice a noxious fog of grift and grievance. He lectures the world on right and wrong, irony clawing at the walls, desperate to escape the grotesque theatre of his moral void. The stomach turns, the air curdles, and for a moment, history itself recoils watching, in horror, as the great American experiment teeters on the precipice, led by a man who couldn’t spell “precipice” if his life depended on it.’

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      The great American experiment is winding down. It’s been interesting to watch. TBH it didn’t last nearly as long as many historical empires, oh well.

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        Well, according to some of my former Christian teachers, that’s because of of the gays.

        Yes, they claim that most empires average 250 years and fall when they start normalizing open homosexuality. No I don’t believe any of that crap anymore.

        A more educated look showed years ago that the US system was based too much on “gentlemen’s agreements” and lacked clear and real protections for democracy and human rights.

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          Arn’t Christians appaling. I am a reasonable man and am certain that their holy book is an absolute heap of disgusting, slavery condoning, male infant genital mutilation demanding, repellent, demented, vicious dark age mumbo jumbo. Christians should be told quite clearly that our citizens have the legal right to criticise, lampoon, ridicule and mock god and Jesus to their heart’s content, in any way that they wish: that Christians have no special claim to protection from the rough and tumble of post-Enlightenment intellectual, political and social life. If they cannot live in a society in which this is the case, they should go somewhere else; they are, after all, spoilt for choice, at least in theory.

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    To paraphrase something I saw online: it’s not that he encouraged Iran to bomb California but Trump could bomb California and blame Iran for it.

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      Everything is projection, he posited many times that Obama would bomb Iran just in time to rile up war hawk votes. They’ve literally written down their entire fascist plan and people keep treating it all as separate fuckup news stories

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    Isn’t it illegal to incite violence against the citizens of the USA? Especially by the “potus”? In the normal run-by-the-US Constitution world, wouldn’t that be considered treason?

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      Isn’t it illegal

      So is 34 counts of falsifying business records. Not sure why people bring up legality during a Fascist government.

      You think people where saying "Franco shot my kids… that’s illegal!”?

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      The play pretend has ended for a while, but only now it’s reached critical mass in how many people are ignoring the rules and laws.

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    wow I have seen politicians threatening not serving constituencies that did not vote for them but this is a new low

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      My guess is they’ve been discussing the need for a big false flag incident to rally support. He probably just felt like mentioning some possible venues to sound out the audience.

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    So the west coast alliance anytime now? If the west coast becomes independent the US loses more than 50% of its economic power

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            Cascadia would take California in. If Alberta wants to separate from Canada then we will let them and we can extend an invitation to Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, and Montana so that we can connect to greater Canada avoiding Alberta.

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      The military would have to be significantly weakened for that. Plus, a plurality of law enforcement and military stationed here would have to be on our side. I don’t see that happening.

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        The military would have to be significantly weakened for that.

        Significantly weakend like as if the US military was being destabilized by an unhinged President purging the officer corps and losing a conflict with Iran? Asking for a friend

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    I don’t know what’s worse, three fact he said it or that people cheered when he said it.

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    TRAITOR

    I mean, is this how treason works historically? It’s only widely accepted after the fact? Like, when you’re in it and actively experiencing it most people don’t acknowledge it?

    That can’t be it. People have been executed for treason. Why the fuck are we so bad at this?

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      The Iranians are not stupid enough to remove an idiot who is ruining the US military. That is how the Allies viewed Hitler, they knew who was fucking up Germany’s war effort.

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      Yeah, what would they gain by attacking the cities trump hates.

      I’m actually worried that they are planning a false flag and because he is senile he just disclosed it.

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    “With the war it’s just artificial, it’s a little bit high, it’s a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe. They could take out a city. Let ‘em take out Los Angeles. Let ‘em take out San Diego,” Trump said, drawing cheers from the crowd. “This is a very small price to pay and it’s going to be over very soon. It’s essentially almost over with.”

    Every time I think my faith in humanity couldn’t be shaken further, I find ways to be surprised.

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      It’s a crowd that would actually go to a Trump rally in 2026. Don’t hinge your faith in humanity on self selected bad people.

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        Is anyone doing any kind of facial recognition on any of the shots of the crowds that get out? Any bets on how many in the crowd are part of the traveling circus?

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        We should be tracking every person who still attends a Trump rally. They are future terrorists.

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      Am I the only one who thinks that maybe he accidentally disclosed their October surprise?

      Could this government be planning something for No Kings protests on October 17th?

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          The guy wants to be putin, and the administration demonstrated multiple times they have no issues with killing Americans.

          Epstein himself wrote:

          recall ive told you " i have met some very bad people " none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body… so yes- dangerous

          And fucking Epstein was a monster himself.

          Your assumption is good for judging people we don’t know, but we know him very well. During the pandemic he found a way to enrich himself. During Venezuela he bombed fishermen (never provided evidence to the accusation) so he liked innocent people only to create excuse to amass Navy in that region to do the operation. And now that dust settled all of our was to basically steal their oil.

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      I’m not sure why some palaver from a Republican event would affect your feelings about humanity - there’s no humanity involved.

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    Maybe California could become Canadas 11th Province? Free healthcare and free society where ICE would be imprisoned for being criminals!

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    Ah yes, “let them take out Los Angeles,” a city that would rank as the 19th highest GDP if it was its own country. A city that alone contributes 4+% of the USA’s economic output. Great strategy, Commander in Soiled Briefs.

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      Not to mention the absolute importance of Hollywood for the US status as the cultural hegemon of the West. Without US-centric entertainment, that status would never have materialized. In terms of propaganda power, there is no comparable place, not even NY comes close.

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        Yeah, during the start of COVID, I think it was either Trump himself or his chief of staff who said that COVID was a blue state thing, basically saying that it wasn’t worth doing anything about as long as it was killing Democrats.

        I’m sure there are other examples, but that one was famous. This is just the kind of inhuman statement that you expect from Trump.

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      I’ve seen far more Talarico signs than Paxton signs around here, so I feel like there are more productive cities to threaten. That being said, there are still far too many Paxton signs, so I get it.