Patented Phil

In a January 2025 New York Times poll, a whopping 79% of Americans believe trans athletes shouldn't be allowed to compete in girls' sports. That includes 67% of Democrats. It’s the gift that keeps on giving - the Democrats are self-imploding on this issue. They can’t stop themselves.

Tim probably doesn’t even realize that castration is contrary to Jewish law. I guess he treats his religion like he does his politics. He gets to pick and choose which laws he wants to follow.

We need SquidTard and his merry band of fact checkers on this.

The old coot walked right into that one.

His man-card needs to be revoked. That’s awful.

She didn’t just offer condolences. She said, “all of our thoughts are with family of the individual whose life has been lost.” I would have hoped that some of her thoughts would have also been reserved for the police officer who had to make the tragic decision to end a human life.

Yeah, more bad forum decorum from you. This thread isn’t about Trump. It’s about what an insufferable turd you are. Stay on point.

I remember that! Such an embarrassment.

Oh bullshitt. We got involved in WWII because we HAD to. We were attacked and our vital national interests were at stake. All that Cold War nonsense (Berlin, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan) was to force imperialist Russia to respect the boundaries negotiated by the big three. Because at that point in time that was in our vital national interest, or at least we thought so (the Domino Theory, which seemed reasonable at the time). Here’s the important thing - we entered into all those conflicts because our Western European allies couldn’t handle it at the time by themselves. It’s a new day, buckaroo. We are almost 100 years removed from the World Wars. It’s no longer a bipolar balance of power. Europe is no longer incapable of defending itself. The USA no longer has a postwar dividend to play with. We're in debt up to our eyeballs and we can’t afford to keep paying for everyone else’s defense. Trump knows this. The smartest scholars in political science have been saying this for about 20 years now. It is you and your warmongering party that are living in the past. America First. It’s not that hard to understand. It’s also moral. There is nothing more sacrosanct than tending to your own people first.

I agree. He’s a narcissist and a blowhard - character flaws that I’ve never liked. It doesn’t at all excuse what Zelenskyy did. He’s a disrespectful, ungrateful pos. Even Biden was annoyed by it.

No. Leftist pigs like you don’t respect him. A little reminder - there’s more people in the USA who voted for Trump than voted for Kameltoe. He’s the duly elected President of the United States. If you’re a foreign leader, needing his help and meeting with him in his office, in front of the media no less - you don’t openly disrespect him like that. I wouldn’t expect someone of your limited moral character to understand this.

We’ll gladly stop talking about it when they stop doing ridiculous shitt like this.

Watch Zelensky’s reaction when Trump says that he’s respected. Unbelievable. That’s a ridiculous level of disrespect - on any level. Unprecedented actually. I’m so glad they kicked that pos out of there like the punk he is. He really earned it. https://www.cnn.com/shorts/cnn-shorts?iid=vertical-video_entry

I worked with a woman who ran track competitively in high school in the 1980’s. She had set several school and conference records and a few of them were still standing. Over 30 years later she was still monitoring the status of her records. That’s how much her achievements meant to her.

It really does suck. The unfairness of it is ridiculous.

Vermont - the Liberal/Socialist bastion with only 5 black people in the whole state.

Head of the EU told Zelenskyy today that he needs to repair his fractured relationship with Trump. Now. The EU nations are all rallying together, with even Great Britain saying that they need to rely less on America. Yeah, good luck with that. Talk of increasing their NATO defense spending from 2% to 3.5% or even as high as 7%. It’s like a college grad living at home with his parents, making $30k a year, getting in a fight and saying he’s moving out and will live on his own.

Treasury sec reveals Zelenskyy nixed Trump's mineral deal twice prior to Oval Office blowup Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had already twice refused to sign a minerals deal with the United States. "This has to be one of the greatest diplomatic mishaps of all time by President Zelenskyy," Bessent said in an interview Friday with Laura Ingraham, host of Fox News' "The Ingraham Angle." Bessent explained that Zelenskyy told him during a meeting in Kyiv that he would not sign a mineral deal, which would exchange billions of dollars in US aid funding for rare earths and other resources from Ukraine. Zelenskyy also refused to close the deal with Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Bessent stated. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent revealed on Fox News that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had already twice refused to sign a minerals deal with the United States. (Fox News) On Friday, Trump and Vance reprimanded Zelenskyy in full view of reporters, with cameras rolling. The tense exchange led to a canceled meeting between Zelenskyy and Trump. "It was supposed to be a great day and this is one of the biggest own goals in diplomatic history," Bessent said, referencing a soccer term about scoring against your own team. "Today, I was shocked that he would behave like this on camera in front of the world," he added. On the social media site X, Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo. posted, "Zelenskyy could have signed the deal five days earlier but wanted to come to the White House. He’d been difficult for two weeks. Yet he wanted the White House meeting. Trump was upbeat about it even just the day before publicly and privately the day of. Although he could have reset the whole thing, Zelenskyy was antagonistic and over the top." Trump posted to his Truth Social account shortly after the meeting that Zelenskyy was "not ready for Peace." (Photos supplied by Getty Images) Schmitt concluded, "He had a one foot putt but was more interested in litigating issues that should be discussed behind closed doors (and have been) in public." Trump posted to his Truth Social account shortly after the meeting that Zelenskyy was "not ready for Peace." "We had a very meaningful meeting in the White House today," Trump wrote. "Much was learned that could never be understood without conversation under such fire and pressure." "Thank you, America, thank you for your support, thank you for this visit," Zelenskyy posted to X on Friday afternoon. "Thank you @POTUS, Congress, and the American people. Ukraine needs just and lasting peace, and we are working exactly for that."

No, no you don’t even watch source material. In this case, it would be the full 50 minute press conference, which is readily available anywhere on the Internet. How can you and the other Leftists in here talk like you know how and why that whole shitt-show went down when you won’t even watch how it all developed. You base your entire assessment on a 4 minute video clip out of a full 50 minute press conference. So once again, until you start actually watching and reading the source material, stfu.

Exactly. Tim admitted last week that he doesn’t read stories or even watch videos unless they emanate from his side, which is basically all he trusts. He’s a coward and an uninformed blow-hard who talks as if he has all the information.

Good post. I’m not against Ukraine either. Russia was clearly the aggressor and they were out of line. But how can anyone have trouble with a US president trying to end a war and all the senses killing that’s going on? That’s all Trump is trying to do here. The war pigs in Europe and the Democrats in the US don’t want peace. They simply don’t.

Bootlicking, anti-Trump, war mongering Leftist. Least surprising thing ever that you’d side with the little dictator. And I’ll bet my house that you didn’t watch the full 50-minute video. So shut the fock up. You’re talking out of an uninformed place, as always.

It’s really noteworthy just how polite and deferential Trump was to Zelensky throughout the first 40 minutes of the press conference. He even defended Zelensky‘s dress (“I like what you are wearing”) to which Zelenskyy made a condescending, foolish remark about how he’s dealing with serious matters and only wants to deal with serious questions. If you’re dealing with serious matters, then maybe you should dress the part, instead of looking like you’re going to Home Depot. Zelenskyy also was extremely disrespectful towards Trump early on the interview when Trump said that Europe wasn’t contributing enough toward Ukraine‘s defense. He came right out and challenged Trump on that, disagreeing with him that the US was spending more than Europe. I was very surprised that Trump took that act of disrespect so gracefully. Zelensky also rolled his eyes and shook his head sideways while Trump was talking. Vance saw this, but Trump didn’t, and I think that’s what set JD off and made the whole thing go nuclear.

Is crystal clear from the full 50 minute video that Zelensky is not ready for peace. He’s basically saying over and over throughout the whole press conference that Putin can’t be trusted, which makes it almost impossible to structure a multi-layered peace deal. Trump is absolutely correct that Zelensky isn’t really in a position to dictate the terms of the peace. He wants iron clad security guarantees (ie - boots on the ground) and I don’t think Trump wants any part of that. But Trump‘s point, and I think it’s kind of a brilliant plan, is to have American business embedded throughout the Ukraine in terms of the minerals deal. In Trump‘s mind that is just as good as troops on the ground. Zelensky made a huge tactical mistake at this meeting. He overplayed his hand, most likely because he’s been codified and emboldened so much over the last three years by Europe and Biden. He doesn’t read the room very well. Zelenskyy’s not ready for peace. Trump is a very practical guy with a lot on his plate, and I think he’s going to realize that this is a fool’s errand at this point and move on to something different. It will be interesting to see what Trump does with future US aid. My guess is that he rolls it back significantly.

I just finished watching the full 50 minute press conference. I encourage everyone to watch it. You really get the proper perspective as to what happened and why. This thing exploded when Zelenskyy directly challenged JD Vance about diplomacy. The two of them obviously don’t like or respect each other. It was extremely disrespectful on Zelenskyy’s part to do that. JD held his ground, and Trump had his back. I don’t think that part has been reported enough. Trump really got rattled by seeing his VP attacked like that, and he came to his defense. Pretty cool to see that type of loyalty. Watch the full video. It’s fascinating. https://youtu.be/CSe0ntgfpq4?si=1ui2wt3LdzG_Ypmt