https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.syracuse.com/us-news/2025/10/former-trump-spiritual-advisor-megachurch-pastor-admits-to-sexual-abuse-of-12-year-old-girl.html%3foutputType=amp

Shocking. Man trump sure likes to surround himself in pedophiles.

This post was edited by SBD on Oct 5 2025 10:01pm

What in the actual fuck?! In most European countries, only sentences up to roughly 2 years can be suspended or on probation. A 10-year sentence which is almost entirely suspended is a travesty, particularly in a case like this.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Oct 7 2025 02:18pm

This just tells you that the rest of the world thinks of Trump as the clown he is. Imagine having to do damage control because you know that if Trump doesn't win the Nobel Peace Prize, he will throw a hissy fit and seek vengeance... all because he didn't win a prize he did not deserve.

Trump is the clown of the world.

Venezuelan democracy activist María Corina Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize

popcorn time.

Venezuela is surrounded

https://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=106991690&f=119

Trump should never have said he was wanting/expecting to get it, once he said that. It was over for him. One thing is for sure, he deserved to win much more than Obama (who won for literally not being bush).


Now if usa actually intervenes against cartels in Venezuela, they will say it's cause of this.

The narrative that trump started this whole Nobel Peace Prize rhetoric is false.
Even AI is misrepresenting this, if you ask chatgpt it will claim it began in 2017 after the north korea sit down.

February 4, 2016
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/report-trumps-nobel-nomination-came-from-congress-member
"""Forbes said that Nobel Prize watcher Kristian Berg Harpviken, director of Oslo’s Peace Research Institute, saw the nomination letter and said it came from “an American male senator or congressman.” ...
It is also unlikely the Nobel committee would disclose the nominator’s name. In its public guidance about the prize process, the committee says it keeps the names of nominators private for 50 years. The rules also preclude a self-nomination from a potential award winner."""

In 2067 we may find out who really nominated Trump.

Here is the Forbes article from Feb 03, 2016
https://www.forbes.com/sites/katiesola/2016/02/03/trump-nobel-prize/#2af5f681100f

a snippet from that
"""Harpviken said that whoever nominated Trump probably did it to secure more press coverage for the controversial candidate. “The person who suggested it may genuinely mean it, but the person who suggested it may also realize that the very fact that Trump’s nomination gets confirmed has considerable interest in its own right, and that all publicity is good publicity," he said.
“The fact that you’re asking me about his nomination indicates that, if that was the thinking, it worked,” Harpviken added. It's worth noting that Trump could use some good press following his defeat in Iowa on Monday, but that he hasn't tweeted about the nomination."""

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In reality the Left is pushing a false narrative, the press kept asking trump about it, of course he's going to respond.
But it didn't start with Trump.

The left wing media is showing extremely poor sportsmanship and attempting to rile it's base to attack the person who didn't win.
Nearly everyone left wing media is plastering ''trump lost'' as their headline today.

Trump should congratulate María Corina Machado and invite her to the oval office, I'd chuckle because how can the left spin it then.

China is doing to us on rare earths exactly what we did to them on high end chips. I mean what do you expect them to do?



This post was edited by ofthevoid on Oct 10 2025 09:37am

The sad part is the cart is leading the horse. we're chasing current trade imbalances of today and ignoring infrastructure imbalances of tomorrow. while the US returns to coal and stays 10 years behind in renewables chasing solar and wind which will never work long term china has put in several hydroelectric dams and new full scale nuclear plants. but the time labor is replaced and automation is the driving majority factor in all manufacturing china will have the energy base to sustain, while the USA with a FAR lower population won't. we're literally starting well ahead in the key factor, mouths to feed, and we're letting them catch up. we should just focus on energy and wait for the labor crisis china will face, so that when it happens we can largely onshore and let them suffer. but we won't. they're still ignorant enough to think we can win a trade war. war is won by supply lines more than bullets.

This is more than just a trade war. It's intertwined with geopolitics. We don't want them to catch up on AI, so we tell NVIDIA and other chip makers to sell them previous gen stuff, while they own the rare earth supply chain which is absolutely critical to defense production and high tech. That's why buying Greenland 10 years ago and breaking ground was so critical to do then, because the alternative is what's happening today.

This is probably the initial salvo in Trumps negotiation tactic. Some final product will be they give us some rare earths in exchange for chips controls being more lax. But what this shows is we no longer can bully others and behave like the hegemon. At least not the big boys. We're being called out, and every time we get called out it emboldens others. Lot of policy mistakes spanning decades comes to home to roost now. The Russian war and taking their foreign reserves, trying to force India and others under threat, decades of exporting critical manufacturing to China, etc. It's like multiple timelines and tangents coming together, economics, geopolitics, fiscal irresponsibility, offshoring, all forming the eye of the shitstorm.

This post was edited by ofthevoid on Oct 10 2025 11:25am