He’ll do whatever the fuck he wants, regardless. And it doesn’t require much effort for him to lie.

Your defiant flyover is my illegal violation of sovereignty.

“Pansexual” is a term that was developed because some people were overly literal-minded about what they thought “bisexual” meant. A sensible person would know enough not to sweat the corner cases. We’re talking about human behavior, not code.

Some people lack the mental capacity to deal with more than two options, and try to force everyone else into one or the other of their faulty categories.

The proper response to such a question is “Were you dropped on your head as a baby?”

There’s also the strong likelihood that the person confronting him was a moron.

That was Trump’s participation prize, since they were unprepared to hand him a Peace Prize. And, as usual for appeasement, that didn’t work on him, hence the fucking pathetic FIFA Piss Prize.

Only if you actually use it.

My employer issues us with a wiped laptop that we can restore from cloud storage over our VPN once we’re in-country. Before we return, we back it up and scrub it again. When I go to the US, I always bring a low-functioning burner phone as well.

How will they prove that I have any social media history?

Hard to say what the US government knows, or admits to knowing, about your social media usage. I almost completely stopped using social media a few years ago, except for Lemmy, and overwrote all my posts with lorem ipsum, as well as never having accessed it before that without using a VPN and doing some other obfuscation, so it’d take some effort to associate me with anything but some boring Facebook and LinkedIn updates I maintain so that certain people can still get in touch with me.

You realize that you don’t have to go to Florida?

Trump-aligned wannabe oligarch should do the right thing and commit seppuku.

Don’t buy into his rule-by-decree framing. Just because Trump wants something doesn’t mean he’ll get it. If he can’t get what he wants by bluster and bullying, he often moves on to the next distraction.

For example, he has loudly demanded that Tish James and James Comey should be thrown in jail. So far that’s led to failure, with no sign it’s going to change. And his invasion of US cities by the National Guard and ICE has not gone according to his maximalist plan, either. Neither has his tariff imbecility, or his attempts to influence foreign elections.

What the security strategy does reveal is that the higher reaches of the US government have been captured by pro-Russian fifth columnists. Patriots, plan and act accordingly.

The US needs to clean house, and the sooner, the better.

Otherwise we’re going to be drawn into the wrong side of a world war.

More of the aggressor-as-victim narrative.

“Russia does not intend to fight Europe, but if Europe starts, we are ready right now.”.

Russia has been committing low-grade acts of war against Europe for some time now, and Russia is in no condition to fight Europe. So, however much you want to quibble about the headline, this is just more of Putin’s lies and empty threats.

And if invading a neighboring country isn’t aggression, you have a very odd definition of the term.

Trump is Putin’s hail-Mary. The only way Putin gets a victory in Ukraine is if it is handed to him.

The idea here is to avoid nuclear war.

The USSR was nuclear-capable when it collapsed. Russia was nuclear-capable while failing in Afghanistan, and also has been in its so-far failed attack on Ukraine. Same goes for the US in Vietnam and in Afghanistan. A country having nukes doesn’t mean you have to comply with its every whim.

It’s true, Europe should crush troll farms, shut down political parties funded by foreign fascists, and break up media monopolies.

Of course, none of these actions is what Trump wants.

Good, the US is a rogue state.

Well, when Russia gets menacing, it’s because we’re doing something that might actually make a difference. Carry on.

Why are they in it at all? They’re not a European country. Should they admit New Guinea as well? Bhutan?