Irony isn't being very ironic these days. What's up with that?

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□ [“Zelensky Rejects Victory Day Truce, Doubles Down on Threats to Moscow and Foreign Dignitaries"]

Funny how nobody asks Ukrainians what they think about this.  Do any of them see anything that could go wrong with this or are they willing to die for Zelensky no matter what?  For that matter, are they even informed of anything?  Zelensky already cancels the media and jails political opponents, so there may be no reason to think they know of who Zelensky plans to bomb next.

At this point, I'd be worried if Russian troops suddenly start pulling back to get them out of range.  Putin's second-in-command (or whatever his official position is) Medvedev has responded saying that if they try something on May 9, no one in Kiev will see May 10.

Taken at face value, that's quite a threat.  Anybody not supported by liberals would start asking if they really want everyone around them dead.  But it's actually worse than that.  Zelensky has just given Russia all the excuse needed to get away with anything.  They can wipe out Kiev next week and say Zelensky had sent in some rockets or something.  They were easily shot down but he was warned, so they responded.  They wouldn't need any evidence and you can't exactly say Russia would never do something so horrific.  Zelensky has set up that opportunity for them.

And this is just after Ukraine has (reportedly) signed the agreement with the US for minerals rights.  Still don't know what that's about and at this point, I wouldn't trust them anyway.  Trump and his people [I forget who] have indicated that they're not taking part in the peace process because it's going nowhere.  Ok, but that deal for minerals makes a peace deal important.  Can't mine in a warzone and a victorious Russia has no incentive to honor the agreement.  This just looks like Trump is getting in much deeper than he should be or that he said he wouldn't be.

I say this as someone who is a supporter of the USA as 'world policeman,' get out.  It's not worth it.  Let them kill themselves.  Trump is just getting himself and the rest of us stuck in this.

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□ [“Trump Posts A.I. Picture of Himself As Pope"]

Is the pope supposed to have access to nukes?  Not sure I'd support that.  But if the other candidate is Hillary Clinton, I guess we can go with that.

Of course the left is outraged about this.  He's showing off how easy they are to troll and they don't realize it.  There's just a point where anybody who's not a collectivist knows enough to just shrug and get on with their own lives.  Yet these people can't do that and don't even see it as an option.  And they're clearly getting exhausted by day-to-day life at this point.

□ [“Maine High School Teacher Calls for Killing Trump and ALL His Supporters – Still Employed by School"]

In the literal sense, she is calling for massive death and says she can do that because he's not POTUS, he's a fascist dictator.  Who apparently has no authority to shut her up permanently.  She's not remotely the only one saying things like this.  They worship death so that's where their mind goes first on everything.

It's probably one reason Trump is doing what he's doing the way he's doing it.  They're letting these people come out in the open so they can be tracked by the Secret Service and A.I.  Like it or not, that's probably a reason why the public arrests haven't started, because it's giving these people a chance to display who and what they are.

Wouldn't surprise me if that includes Epstein and P. Diddy's allies and everyone who works for them.  Maybe I'm just being naive optimistic but however long this takes might make sane Americans much stronger and the rest much weaker.  We try to build a structure to rise from, they just keep falling and there's no ground floor in Hell.

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□ [“AOC Town Hall Descends Into Chaos As Protester Shrieks, 'You're a Liar!'"]

Not really chaos, just a protester who claims to have been a supporter but now isn't because AOC isn't doing enough to destroy Israel.  Others in the audience spoke up but didn't really have anything to contribute.  Can't really tell what they're saying - admittedly I didn't do more than scan through the video - but I assume they mostly supported AOC.  Maybe a few supported the protestor or at least thought she should be allowed to speak.

So it wasn't that big a deal.  A bigger point is that we don't usually see things like that at Democrat rallies.  She's not being attacked by anyone who supports Israel, or supports America.  They're on her side and still need to start a public argument.  Ah leftism!  How do they do that?  Of course she was removed.

AOC also brags about how much help she's giving illegals.  It will take very little effort to find federal laws she's breaking so if she really wants to say Congress has to be ignored, that may help her popularity but not her credibility.  She could at least be telling her staff to look into this, if there's anything she's doing that might get her punished.  But of course that's what she's doing, the laws just don't apply to her.  Ah women!  How do they do that?

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□ [“The United Nations Could Run Out of Cash Within Months"]

It's not clear why.  The US provides most of the money so there's one possibility.  There's also the effect of DOGE although we don't know for sure how much the UN was getting that way.  The WHO is a part of the UN but I've noticed it being treated as the primary part, what with their declaring control over the whole world, so maybe that's part of it.  Maybe the WHO just gets all the attention so no one gives the UN any money.

Or maybe the UN just funnels all the money into their own pockets so it can't handle whatever the UN is there to handle.  They unanimously oppose Israel but other than that, I can't think of anything they're actually doing.  How's that Russia/Ukraine thing going?  Is there any part of that you can say 'thank goodness the UN was there to help'?  How about the Iran/Saudi Arabia in Yemen thing?  Has the UN got a handle on that and transport in the Red Sea?  Then there's the upcoming conflict between India and Pakistan, and it doesn't seem like they're saying 'call the UN, they'll know what to do!'  And those are just the wars.  Where does the UN stand on Trump's tariffs?

As long as there's world-wide communication, there's always going to be a UN-equivalent.  That's just the way it goes.  They'll always want to destroy the US whether we're a member or not so other than moving their headquarters to another country, I don't think there's a way to fix that.  Otherwise, face it, this does give us an opportunity to spy on every other country, so right there we're stuck having at least a few people show up to meetings.  But maybe we'll see other nations get furious at the notion that money is no longer coming in from the UN.

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