Roland Gerritsen van der Hoop
@rgh1205.bsky.social
General interest in science, history, politics, and a lot more. Originally Dutch, now American. Dislike malignant narcissists. Like cats.
Do they really think that invading Venezuela and stealing its oil is a winning strategy to get oil prices lower in the US? Do they think American casualties will be acceptable? Apart from the amorality.
November 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Do they really think that invading Venezuela and stealing its oil is a winning strategy to get oil prices lower in the US? Do they think American casualties will be acceptable? Apart from the amorality.
When you have no other goal but to plunder you use the truth when it helps you and lie when it does not. At this point it is really hard to see in what way the Republican party is remotely interested in the wellbeing of Americans. It serves only the very rich with a little veneer of fake religion.
November 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
When you have no other goal but to plunder you use the truth when it helps you and lie when it does not. At this point it is really hard to see in what way the Republican party is remotely interested in the wellbeing of Americans. It serves only the very rich with a little veneer of fake religion.
MAGA uses the terms "liberal", "radical", "AntiFa", "communist", "socialist", "Marxist", "Leninist", "Rhino", and "Democrat" as interchangeable, because they just mean "not us".
November 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
MAGA uses the terms "liberal", "radical", "AntiFa", "communist", "socialist", "Marxist", "Leninist", "Rhino", and "Democrat" as interchangeable, because they just mean "not us".
Six orthodox Catholic Opus Dei appointed justices, not there because they are the most brilliant legal minds in the country (which is what a Supreme Court should be) but because they will do the bidding of the plutocrats and the theocrats.
November 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Six orthodox Catholic Opus Dei appointed justices, not there because they are the most brilliant legal minds in the country (which is what a Supreme Court should be) but because they will do the bidding of the plutocrats and the theocrats.
Is there any type of criminal Trump has not yet bailed out?
Pedophiles, sex traffickers, insurrectionists, police brutality offenders, wife beaters, bit coin con artists, Congressional swindlers, on-line grifters, perjurers.
Pedophiles, sex traffickers, insurrectionists, police brutality offenders, wife beaters, bit coin con artists, Congressional swindlers, on-line grifters, perjurers.
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Is there any type of criminal Trump has not yet bailed out?
Pedophiles, sex traffickers, insurrectionists, police brutality offenders, wife beaters, bit coin con artists, Congressional swindlers, on-line grifters, perjurers.
Pedophiles, sex traffickers, insurrectionists, police brutality offenders, wife beaters, bit coin con artists, Congressional swindlers, on-line grifters, perjurers.
Rule number one of corporate research is that you should never start a study of something if you cannot live with the answer.
November 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Rule number one of corporate research is that you should never start a study of something if you cannot live with the answer.
What is there to negotiate?
Russia has no right to be in Ukraine. It is a sovereign country. This is not RISK, the board game. This is the 21st century and Russia's NAZI like expansionism is just flat-out morally wrong. Putin needs to be made to understand that.
Russia has no right to be in Ukraine. It is a sovereign country. This is not RISK, the board game. This is the 21st century and Russia's NAZI like expansionism is just flat-out morally wrong. Putin needs to be made to understand that.
November 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
What is there to negotiate?
Russia has no right to be in Ukraine. It is a sovereign country. This is not RISK, the board game. This is the 21st century and Russia's NAZI like expansionism is just flat-out morally wrong. Putin needs to be made to understand that.
Russia has no right to be in Ukraine. It is a sovereign country. This is not RISK, the board game. This is the 21st century and Russia's NAZI like expansionism is just flat-out morally wrong. Putin needs to be made to understand that.
This guy embodies everything that is wrong with Second Trump. They are SERVING the American people. The American people are not serving them.
November 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
This guy embodies everything that is wrong with Second Trump. They are SERVING the American people. The American people are not serving them.
For his sons and him this is true. For the rest of us, alas, it is not.
November 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
For his sons and him this is true. For the rest of us, alas, it is not.
This would be a good time for all those supporting Trump to watch Ken Burns’s documentary on the revolutionary war.
They will soon realize their Dear Leader has more in common with the loyalists than with the patriots.
And even the loyalists would probably despise him.
They will soon realize their Dear Leader has more in common with the loyalists than with the patriots.
And even the loyalists would probably despise him.
November 24, 2025 at 4:39 AM
This would be a good time for all those supporting Trump to watch Ken Burns’s documentary on the revolutionary war.
They will soon realize their Dear Leader has more in common with the loyalists than with the patriots.
And even the loyalists would probably despise him.
They will soon realize their Dear Leader has more in common with the loyalists than with the patriots.
And even the loyalists would probably despise him.
The term usurp is especially ironic coming from the usurper.
November 24, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The term usurp is especially ironic coming from the usurper.
I wonder why?
Maybe Dear Leader whispered in his ear (while holding a knife at his throat) that Maxwell is not to be touched or else he will get a code Red.
Maybe Dear Leader whispered in his ear (while holding a knife at his throat) that Maxwell is not to be touched or else he will get a code Red.
November 24, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I wonder why?
Maybe Dear Leader whispered in his ear (while holding a knife at his throat) that Maxwell is not to be touched or else he will get a code Red.
Maybe Dear Leader whispered in his ear (while holding a knife at his throat) that Maxwell is not to be touched or else he will get a code Red.
At least Von Ribbentrop and Molotov were not dummies. They were malignant thugs, though.
November 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
At least Von Ribbentrop and Molotov were not dummies. They were malignant thugs, though.
To prove that we would need a study where people are allocated to either watch television or do crossword puzzles and look at the dementia rate. Otherwise it is highly plausible the ones electing to do the crosswords would be less likely to get dementia anyway.
November 24, 2025 at 1:03 AM
To prove that we would need a study where people are allocated to either watch television or do crossword puzzles and look at the dementia rate. Otherwise it is highly plausible the ones electing to do the crosswords would be less likely to get dementia anyway.
Probably the most productive since Olav the Mad ordered 29,000 helmets with the horns on the inside (stolen from Blackadder).
November 24, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Probably the most productive since Olav the Mad ordered 29,000 helmets with the horns on the inside (stolen from Blackadder).
Dead soldiers are losers according to Trump.
Heroes are soldiers who pretend to fight, never run any risk, steal other soldiers’ honors, and go after underage girls.
Heroes are soldiers who pretend to fight, never run any risk, steal other soldiers’ honors, and go after underage girls.
November 24, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Dead soldiers are losers according to Trump.
Heroes are soldiers who pretend to fight, never run any risk, steal other soldiers’ honors, and go after underage girls.
Heroes are soldiers who pretend to fight, never run any risk, steal other soldiers’ honors, and go after underage girls.
JD Vance is a horrible human being, probably worse than Trump, because he knows exactly what he is doing.
He is also a lawyer and a veteran. He is acutely aware of the concept of illegal orders. In fact, as the VP he should have objected to blowing up boats. We shall see how that pans out.
He is also a lawyer and a veteran. He is acutely aware of the concept of illegal orders. In fact, as the VP he should have objected to blowing up boats. We shall see how that pans out.
November 23, 2025 at 11:21 PM
JD Vance is a horrible human being, probably worse than Trump, because he knows exactly what he is doing.
He is also a lawyer and a veteran. He is acutely aware of the concept of illegal orders. In fact, as the VP he should have objected to blowing up boats. We shall see how that pans out.
He is also a lawyer and a veteran. He is acutely aware of the concept of illegal orders. In fact, as the VP he should have objected to blowing up boats. We shall see how that pans out.
Translation:
We are knee deep into trouble and he knows it. Tariffs have wreaked havoc as every expert told us they would. DOGE did the rest.
So time to find a Dem culprit.
It is sooooo annoying. Republicans are the ones always screwing up the economy because they do not give a shit.
We are knee deep into trouble and he knows it. Tariffs have wreaked havoc as every expert told us they would. DOGE did the rest.
So time to find a Dem culprit.
It is sooooo annoying. Republicans are the ones always screwing up the economy because they do not give a shit.
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Translation:
We are knee deep into trouble and he knows it. Tariffs have wreaked havoc as every expert told us they would. DOGE did the rest.
So time to find a Dem culprit.
It is sooooo annoying. Republicans are the ones always screwing up the economy because they do not give a shit.
We are knee deep into trouble and he knows it. Tariffs have wreaked havoc as every expert told us they would. DOGE did the rest.
So time to find a Dem culprit.
It is sooooo annoying. Republicans are the ones always screwing up the economy because they do not give a shit.
My grandparents never lost their mental acuity and always did crossword puzzles until they died at 95 and 96.
It is pleasing to think you can stave off dementia by keeping your brain active, but it is not illogical to consider maybe it is the other way around.
It is pleasing to think you can stave off dementia by keeping your brain active, but it is not illogical to consider maybe it is the other way around.
November 23, 2025 at 11:11 PM
My grandparents never lost their mental acuity and always did crossword puzzles until they died at 95 and 96.
It is pleasing to think you can stave off dementia by keeping your brain active, but it is not illogical to consider maybe it is the other way around.
It is pleasing to think you can stave off dementia by keeping your brain active, but it is not illogical to consider maybe it is the other way around.
Fascism is attractive to the mediocre and less intelligent people.
If they were more intelligent they would not need fascism.
If they were more intelligent they would not need fascism.
November 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Fascism is attractive to the mediocre and less intelligent people.
If they were more intelligent they would not need fascism.
If they were more intelligent they would not need fascism.
But the “libs” are owned or something…..
November 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
But the “libs” are owned or something…..
Trump has been on Putin’s payroll ever since Putin collected enough kompromat on him, which must have been quite easy, seeing what a careless and amoral creature he has always been.
November 23, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Trump has been on Putin’s payroll ever since Putin collected enough kompromat on him, which must have been quite easy, seeing what a careless and amoral creature he has always been.
Following orders does not require heroism.
In fact many Nazi criminals hanged at Nuremberg were quite good at it.
Rejecting illegal orders does.
In fact many Nazi criminals hanged at Nuremberg were quite good at it.
Rejecting illegal orders does.
November 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Following orders does not require heroism.
In fact many Nazi criminals hanged at Nuremberg were quite good at it.
Rejecting illegal orders does.
In fact many Nazi criminals hanged at Nuremberg were quite good at it.
Rejecting illegal orders does.
Turley, Dershowitz, Habba, Bondi, Blanche, Halligan?
November 23, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Turley, Dershowitz, Habba, Bondi, Blanche, Halligan?