President Donald Trump

We might not be on the same page on what inconsistency means. Or any of the underlying facts about the two situations.

In any case, before Ukraine was “part of the Epstein empire” they were closely aligned with Russia. So at the very least you need to acknowledge that it’s not true that “they exist for the sole purpose of weakening Russia”

This is probably the funniest shyt and inadvertently most awesome line I've read on this forum ever.

Lots

Imagine hating the constitution so much that you deride protesting.

Protesting is fine. The problem is protestors tend to be the same creepy people who don’t even understand what they are protesting.

You must be so proud of the martyred warriors who now get their 72 virgin goats.

No that was the whole purpose of the 2014 coup

Amazin'!

Huh?

One can both be a First Amendment absolutist and also be critical of a given protest.

Did someone claim that they shouldn't be allowed to protest? If so, I agree with your point.

Again we can quibble about whether that was a coup or not. The point is that prior to the “coup” they were not part of the empire, and were closely aligned with Russia

one can go back to WW2 and Bandera's Nazi collaboration and then future work with MI6 to argue against that.

regardless, the pre-coup, democratically and legally elected government was trying to work with both the West and Russia.

and you may have forgotten that there was a coup in like 2004 that overturned elections and put in a pro-West stoodge. he subsequently lost the next elections. ofc the Epstein class was smart and capable enough to make sure that no free and fair elections have happened since.

The purpose of the protests are not to damage his ego. It doesn't matter if he relishes the protests or not.

If you can't make out the words under his hands, then you're straight-tardo, tardo.

the purpose of the protests is not is not Trump's ego, but the liberal's ego. they can do nothing and feel better about themselves. naturally, none of these people protested Biden's mass murder in Gaza and Lebanon.

Well anti-Royalists are Patriots.

Doesn't sound like they thought through their dialectic too much this go 'round.

So therefore if they were trying to work with both then it’s a contradiction to your statement that they are only there to frustrate Russia’s interests. Please learn how universal statements get falsified.

I could make out the words just fine. Might be harder for someone driving by the protest to catch them straightaway however.

Protesting builds popular support so it’s not nothing. And knowing the people that I know that have gone to these rallies, many of them even participated in campus sit ins and BDS campaigns, I doubt that’s true. You just get so ass mad that lefties do nothing and liberals actually do things.

Ukraine, as constructed today, exists only as a vassal of the pedophile Empire to hurt Russia. I thought that was understood by the context. but bad faith ghana bad faith.

like, ya dude, no **** that Yanukovych was not working exclusively to promote the Epstein Empire and hurt Russia. thanks for that critique.

Many Russian nationalists, including Putin, say that Ukraine is a fake country as justification to annex the entirety of Ukraine. So it’s not clear to everyone that you were not spreading this talking point. And also, it still fails for the same reasons, because even if you move it to “as constructed today only exists”, it’s still false because they have independent reasons for existing outside of frustrating Russia. Namely, you can just look back and see that even when they were close with Russia, Russia did not try to annex them.

2025 set a record for Blacks killed by police. Now those hotbed cities have highly militarized police forces. Probably not what people mean by doing something. And all that was certainly a factor in getting Trump elected. But where are the protests now and where have the protesters gone?

Sometimes feeling good about what you're doing doesn't translate into doing good.

Looks more like he was taking a break from holding the sign up. What's next, you're going to say the signs piled up in the cart next to him couldn't be read from the street?

It's not that the protests should necessarily attack his ego -- that is just trolling him for good measure -- but that the protest sure as hell shouldn't caress it. That's how he takes it, a snide, cynical, "I'm the king. I really am. I must be. Look at this." It feeds his autocratic lust. I find this an unfortunate result of the protests, and revealing that they don't really understand their enemy. It's about like calling a protest of Harvey Weinstein "No More Ladies Men." Weinstein isn't a ladies man, 47 isn't a king ... but they damn sure want to be, so why play into it?

The one thing that I have definitely hardened my stance on in the last few years is that the US, in actual reality, is a giant melting pot of convoluted ideological positions - far more so than the media or public forums portray. I think this also helps explain why political forums often splinter into tiny factions before any sense of agreement can be achieved within a group, if ever. Obviously, I think a mixed ideological landscape points towards the importance of a functioning democracy, because people often fail to acknowledge the degree of these differences.

But assuming that any subset or group of a particular ideological position could ever represent everyone’s interests or handle the challenges collectively facing Americans is the most foolish and dangerous mindset I can think of - one that always seems to be caked in a deep desire to control others.

Oh like they believe Trump's going to establish an actual monarchy.