March 28Mar 28 29 minutes ago, DrPhilly said: I don't think this is the least bit performative in Trump's little mind. He really means it. Now that doesn't mean there is a reasonable or practical path for him to take. Let's assume you are right and he doesn't have the actual nutz to use the military threat and tell NATO to F off. Do you have the same conclusion with Vance? Vance is one fatal big mac choking episode from taking over. I think that quote was from @vikas83. To me, Vance is even more dangerous than Trump. He’s a smart guy with an evil character. That’s a bad combination if he gets into the presidency IMO. There’s a reason he is disliked so much.
March 28Mar 28 Just now, Frankfurteagle89 said: I think that quote was from @vikas83. To me, Vance is even more dangerous than Trump. He’s a smart guy with an evil character. That’s a bad combination if he gets into the presidency IMO. There’s a reason he is disliked so much. Indeed it was vikas
March 28Mar 28 So they were warned by the NSA in a memo late last month that signal chat was a high value target for hacking and recommended not using it.
March 28Mar 28 2 hours ago, vikas83 said: I still find the potential outcome here to be simultaneously terrifying and hysterical. If Trump were to actually invade Greenland (and no, I don't think there's any chance he will), then technically that would be an attack on a NATO member (Denmark). So per Article V, we would be obligated to protect Denmark from...us? Again, this will never happen. It just shows how all of this is idiotic performance theater. I think many in the military would reject that as an illegal order. Attacking/Invading an allied nation is not what those in the military sign up for.
March 28Mar 28 Trump has already mentioned it, but soon, The Christian Nationalization over America is going to begin. And this isn't normal Christianity. This is akin to radical, extremist ideology. Kind of what Isis is to Islam. Be ready.
March 28Mar 28 33 minutes ago, jsdarkstar said: Trump has already mentioned it, but soon, The Christian Nationalization over America is going to begin. And this isn't normal Christianity. This is akin to radical, extremist ideology. Kind of what Isis is to Islam. Be ready. I wouldn't be too worried, the resistance is preparing an army of memes on threads.
March 28Mar 28 19 hours ago, Tnt4philly said: It’s almost sad that your life is so pathetic that you would think this type of behavior is what we want to see in the POTUS, let alone our fellow humans. Take all the way in bish....... The United Auto Workers’ (UAW) union praised Trump’s tariff decision in a written statement Wednesday, saying: "Ending the race to the bottom in the auto industry starts with fixing our broken trade deals, and the Trump administration has made history with today’s actions."
March 28Mar 28 25 minutes ago, The_Omega said: You rightfully avoided this thread since the security debacle, only to come in with this BS? More proof what a pathetic PoS you have become. You should burn your DD214, you’re an embarrassment to the service.
March 29Mar 29 https://x.com/mehdirhasan/status/1905733004917604488 Reporter: What was your reason for pardoning Trevor Milton? Trump: I don't know him, but they say it was very unfair, and the thing that he did wrong was he was one of the first people that supported a gentleman named Donald Trump for president. If he doesn’t know him, why did he call him personally to tell him the news of the pardon? Sheesh. https://x.com/atrupar/status/1905669619215442347 Trump seems unable to come up with the word "criminal" and instead calls them "people of crime" https://x.com/atrupar/status/1905698139547545881 Alina Habba blatantly lies on Fox: "He is skyrocketing right now ... President Trump's approval rating is at an all-time high of anyone." https://x.com/atrupar/status/1905722808002650165 Rep. Wesley Hunt: "The people of Greenland will get to decide whether or not they want to be part of the US. Let me ask a few simple question: Do you want to be a part of the greatest country of the world, or do you want to be a part of the failed leadership from Denmark?"
March 29Mar 29 1 hour ago, Tnt4philly said: You rightfully avoided this thread since the security debacle, only to come in with this BS? More proof what a pathetic PoS you have become. You should burn your DD214, you’re an embarrassment to the service. The thing with Hegseth is that he was an infantry branch O-4 with no air assault tab, no jump wings, and no ranger tab. When he was deployed to OIF he was in the Bn civil affairs office. I can’t imagine he was there for any other reason than he was a F up because that’s usually why they assign people to that. The whole signal chat thing read like some O-3/O-4 briefing his superiors. Not like how anyone else at that level would operate. Usually the NMCC would be handling the messaging, but he did it. Like someone who’s never done that before.
March 29Mar 29 6 hours ago, lynched1 said: Take all the way in bish....... The United Auto Workers’ (UAW) union praised Trump’s tariff decision in a written statement Wednesday, saying: "Ending the race to the bottom in the auto industry starts with fixing our broken trade deals, and the Trump administration has made history with today’s actions." Wait til they start getting laid off because nobody can afford a $80k truck. The big auto makers are going to raise the prices of their vehicles made in the USA to compensate for the slumping sales of non USA made vehicles. An auto executive source told a CNBC eporter that this will lead to an auto recession
March 29Mar 29 Quote On March 4, the Tufts Community Union Senate passed 3 out of 4 resolutions demanding that the University acknowledge the Palestinian genocide, apologize for University President Sunil Kumar’s statements, disclose its investments and divest from companies with direct or indirect ties to Israel. These resolutions were the product of meaningful debate by the Senate and represent a sincere effort to hold Israel accountable for clear violations of international law. Credible accusations against Israel include accounts of deliberate starvation and indiscriminate slaughter of Palestinian civilians and plausible genocide. Unfortunately, the University’s response to the Senate resolutions has been wholly inadequate and dismissive of the Senate, the collective voice of the student body. Graduate Students for Palestine joins Tufts Students for Justice in Palestine, the Tufts Faculty and Staff Coalition for Ceasefire and Fletcher Students for Palestine to reject the University’s response. Although graduate students were not allowed by the University into the Senate meeting, which lasted for almost eight hours, our presence on campus and financial entanglement with the University via tuition payments and the graduate work that we do on grants and research makes us direct stakeholders in the University’s stance. While an argument may be made that the University should not take political stances and should focus on research and intellectual exchange, the automatic rejection, dismissive nature and condescending tone in the University’s statement have caused us to question whether the University is indeed taking a stand against its own declared commitments to free speech, assembly and democratic expression. According to the Student Code of Conduct, “[a]ctive citizenship, including exercising free speech and engaging in protests, gatherings, and demonstrations, is a vital part of the Tufts community.” In addition, the Dean of Students Office has written, "[w]hile at times the exchange of controversial ideas and opinions may cause discomfort or even distress, our mission as a university is to promote critical thinking, the rigorous examination and discussion of facts and theories, and diverse and sometimes contradictory ideas and opinions.” Why then is the University discrediting and disregarding its students who practice the very ideals of critical thinking, intellectual exchange and civic engagement that Tufts claims to represent? The role of the TCU Senate resolutions is abundantly clear. The Senate’s resolutions serve as a "strong lobbying tool that expresses to the Tufts administration the wants and needs of the student body. They speak as a collective voice and are instrumental in enacting systemic changes.” In this case, the "systemic changes” that the collective voice of the student body is calling for are for the University to end its complicity with Israel insofar as it is oppressing the Palestinian people and denying their right to self-determination — a right that is guaranteed by international law. These strong lobbying tools are all the more urgent now given the order by the International Court of Justice confirming that the Palestinian people of Gaza’s rights under the Genocide Convention are under a "plausible” risk of being breached. This collective student voice is not without precedent. Today, the University may remember with pride its decision in February 1989 to divest from South Africa under apartheid and end its complicity with the then-boob regime. However, we must remember that the University divested up to 11 years after some of its peers. For instance, the Michigan State University Board of Regents passed resolutions to end its complicity with Apartheid South Africa as early as 1978. Had Tufts heeded the call of the student movement in the late 1970s, the University could have been on the right side of history sooner. We reject any attempt by the University or the Office of the President to summarily dismiss the role of the Senate and mischaracterize its resolution as divisive. The open and free debate demonstrated by the Senate process (exemplified by the length, open notice and substantive exchange in the proceedings and the non-passing of one of the proposed resolutions), together with the serious organizing efforts of students, warrant credible self-reflection by the Office of the President and the University. We, as graduate students, affirm the equal dignity and humanity of all people and reject the University’s mischaracterization of the Senate’s efforts. The great author and civil rights champion James Baldwin once wrote: "The paradox of education is precisely this: that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which [they are] being educated.” As an educator, President Kumar should embrace efforts by students to evaluate "diverse and sometimes contradictory ideas and opinions.” Furthermore, the president should trust in the Senate’s rigorous and democratic process and the resolutions that it has achieved. We urge President Kumar and the Tufts administration to meaningfully engage with and actualize the resolutions passed by the Senate. This op-ed was written by Nick Ambeliotis (CEE, ‘25), Fatima Rahman (STEM Education, ‘27), Genesis Perez (English, ‘27) and Rumeysa Ozturk (CSHD, ‘25) and is endorsed by 32 other Tufts School of Engineering and Arts and Sciences Graduate Students. Above is the OpEd in the Tufts University student paper that caused Rumeysa Ozturk, a grad student from Turkey, to be apprehended without due process. Below is the video of the apprehension. @The_Omega @The Norseman @Procus @Diehardfan Guys - Please explain the rational to me. What in the OpEd justifies picking this lady off the street and throwing her into detention without any opportunity to appear before a court?
March 29Mar 29 2 hours ago, DrPhilly said: Finally some common sense from someone who most likely is a Trump supporter. This whole scandal should be cut and dried, no matter who you support. National security and the security of all service members should never be a partisan issue.
March 29Mar 29 31 minutes ago, Frankfurteagle89 said: Finally some common sense from someone who most likely is a Trump supporter. This whole scandal should be cut and dried, no matter who you support. National security and the security of all service members should never be a partisan issue. Portnoy is a well know Trump supporter
March 29Mar 29 I really don't care what idiots like Portnoy have to say now though. Acting like this kinda crap isn't the obvious and inevitable outcome of a Trump presidency is at best naive. Much more likely just shameless engagement farming. This is what you voted for dude. Time to own it dumbF.
March 29Mar 29 13 minutes ago, DEagle7 said: I really don't care what idiots like Portnoy have to say now though. Acting like this kinda crap isn't the obvious and inevitable outcome of a Trump presidency is at best naive. Much more likely just shameless engagement farming. This is what you voted for dude. Time to own it dumbF. Right, agree this doesn't exonerate Portnoy at all but it is good to stick in the face of other Trump voters and MAGA.
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