Vanity Fair trying to top of the list for targets of a drone strike, kristallnacht 2024 edition is going to be via reaper
In case you think thats outside of the realm of possibility, I would redirect to you to some recent supreme burrito rulings
I’m from the other side of the world, and when I was a kid, we were taught the story of Abraham Lincoln in school… how he never gave up. Lincoln grew up poor, his business failed, his wife died, and he lost elections again and again. But finally, he became the president. So, what lesson do we learn from this, kids? - like that.
Now it feels like we’ll be teaching kids about Trump—34 felony counts, 6 bankruptcies, 2 impeachments, 1 violent insurrection, and a couple dozen rape accusations… but hey, he didn’t give up either! xD
Literally in a car with an immigrant right now who voted Trump because things were cheaper before covid.
FFS.
Anecdotal evidence that the right is for the uneducated.
Anecdotally… About 75% of the right that I know/met.
The other 25% is a mix of racism, greed, and conspiracy theory.
Every time they’ll be complaining about the price hikes under Trump, just remind them of why they voted for Trump. This is the best course of action against “collective amnesia” as we call it in Hungary.
Which is why every time something bad or good happens, I’ll be posting #ThankRepublicans over and over. People love to bitch, so put it squarely with them.
Oh alongside the loss of benefits they rely on (which I told them about), the pandemic potential with the worst Kennedy, even their friends which are of varying ethnicities and going to be targeted, the list is… Long.
How do you come back from it?
uneducatable
Solid distinction.
Religion primed the rubes, and a new godhead told them he is their salvation.
Religion didn’t prime them. Religion merely exploits the same human psychological weaknesses. This is why they go hand in hand.
Hmm. Maybe look up what priming (verb) means.
I know what it means. I guess I didn’t make my point clear enough, that’s on me. I didn’t think I had to write it for an eli5 audience.
Whatever makes you feel better
So sad that dumbasses who think the President controls grocery store prices and gas prices have done this to us all.
I voted for Harris and my state went red for Trump as usual. Just sad and disgusted at it all today.
How do you expect people to think any differently when there is nobody combatting that narrative at the national level? That is something the Democrats could have been hammering on.
Uh, just basic knowledge of how the President’s job works? Stuff we learn in grade school. Everyone should know this, but people are idiots.
In the context of this chain, it should be noted most immigrants don’t go through US grade schools.
Immigrants should do their civic duty as members of the society they wish to join, by learning basic civics.
But overall, this election is the fault of religious dumbasses who are brainwashed by dumbass preachers illegally promoting their politics based on religious fantasies about demons and armageddon.
Right, which is why you educate them and make the case for them to vote for you, or else the other side will spread their disinformation without any competing narrative. That’s kind of the entire point of a presidential campaign. Just calling people idiots isn’t going to make them not be idiots.
The democrats were too busy staring at him.
Grocery stores are making record profits. Do they really think they are going to voluntarily cut prices? They know there will be no oversight under trump (not that Biden did anything about price gouging). Prices are going to go up even higher.
Not if people don’t have enough money, then they’ll take the five finger discount.
I wouldn’t put it past the stores to ask for an executive order to make theft punishable by losing fingers.
“looters”
I don’t expect everybody to be politically aware, but there’s “not politically aware” and then there’s whatever that is.
Stupid?
Just wait until the leopards start eating their faces. Act surprised.
Honestly, I’m going to try and leave.
Instead of mocking people like this, us on the left really need to understand them and how to appeal to them better than Trump. Dude is a billionaire and managed to convince working people he’s on their side. He’s winning the populism game because no one else is even playing it. Time to beat him at his own game
How do you get the Democrats to run somebody like Sanders when they don’t even have a primary? The DNC boned the entire country. Again.
In related news:
In June 2016, a class action lawsuit was filed against the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and former DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz for violating the DNC Charter by rigging the Democratic presidential primaries for Hillary Clinton against Bernie Sanders. Even former Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid admitted in July 2016, “I knew—everybody knew—that this was not a fair deal.”
I don’t pretend to know how to accomplish this. I may be completely wrong here, but two things that have to go:
- Religious thought (“faithbrain” or the Peter Pan-esque belief that things are true because you believe they are true, despite a lack of evidentiary or even argumentative support, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary)
- Social media bubbles (billionaires controlling the content people see, creating bubbles of “information” that skew the public in their favor)
There’s almost certainly more to do as well, but those things stand out to me. Also, it seems hard to believe that we could make any progress on these fronts given the current situation.
This won’t change. Democrats have to take a lesson in human behaviour. Republican tactics work. Embrace them. Exploit them.
I keep waiting for the Left to fight dirty, but… We go high, they go low, and low is what gets elected
Are they here legally?
Yes, but that doesn’t matter to republicans.
Yep, their plan is to remove all immigrants
A lot of their own parents and grandparents are going to have to go then. The leopards will not go hungry.
Absolutely not at all
Only the ones who aren’t “white”.
It matters to MAGA Republicans. Your friend is a legal immigrant, he’s here to stay and we 100% welcome him.
If they keep saying it, maybe it’ll be true just like the 2020 election fraud!
Ah, yes, just like the completely legal Haitian immigrants.
Clearly, a well supported position from the republican party. Totally not the exact opposite of what came out of the pres elect and VP elect.
Reminded a bit of a certain anchorman gif right about now…
Some Haitians are legal, and some are “legal” due to this sus app the new administration will be looking into. I think some from that app will stay and some will have to leave, but they’ll clear it up.
Do you mean the eating cats and dogs thing? I’m glad that got cleared up. :)
You’re just in denial. You’re probably one of the ones that think it will never happen to them.
It’s 80 degrees in November. America has reelected a climate change denier. SUV sales continue to rise.
If only Americans had voted for the party that was going to fix climate change…
Which one was that again?
You’re not going to like this, but it was the Green Party.
Oh I’m totally with you, it’s the rest of this instance that you have to contend with
In that two party system?
“Go ahead, throw your vote away!” -Kodos
The Green Party? Yeah, hopefully before we all burn up. Stein still got <5% this time.
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What devil has this guy made a deal with? No matter how stupid, obnoxious or abrasive he is, people worship him. He constantly screws himself over and then before he has to face serious consequences he trips on a rock and somehow everything’s alright again for him. At this point he literally can shoot someone on 6th Avenue and get away of it. I think Trump is solid evidence that we’re living in a simulation and somebody is fucking with us, because life just doesn’t work the way it works for him. Somebody’s thumb is on the scale.
A friend on FB asked his friends why they voted for Trump. One woman responded 'because he loves all of us and wants nothing more than to make our lives better."
What. The. Actual. Fuck?
The day after he was convicted on his 30+ felonies, he had the biggest donation day of any politician in US history, probably Human history. Jeff Bezos prevented any news outlet he owned of endorsing Harris, Elon Musk Did a million dollar raffle for Trump voters. They DO NOT WANT to pay taxes, and they DO NOT want to pay people who make their money. That’s all this has ever been, and they know Trump would fuck his mothers corpse for a nickle and will absolutely shift the tax burden to the poor and middle class as hard as he can, and he has a majority in the legislature, and full stop OWNS the most extreme and corrupt Supreme Court we’ve ever seen, and he will stack it even higher this term. It is a GREAT time to be a corrupt politician in America, no one is going to taste a single consequence for this fuckery.
What devil has this guy made a deal with?
He cut a Faustian Bargain with the soul of America. And like Faust, he gets to spend his days capering and clowning about his social superiors, making unholy mischief in a kingdom that is itself revealed to be terminally corrupt and wholely damned.
Trump took the Objectivist philosophy that’s guided this country for a generation and embodied it. He is Reaganism in its manifest state. Just a guy entirely out for himself who has convinced 71M other people to do the same.
What’s more concerning is that millions more people saw it and didn’t bother to stop him.
I always knew it was possible for right-wing populism and proto-fascism to take hold in America. A society that seems itself immune and superior is especially susceptible.
But I honestly didn’t think it would be a complete idiot like Trump. A wannabe dictator is supposed to be charismatic. His ramblings couldn’t invigorate a chicken coop. And yet it seems people are so desperate for his ilk that not even that’s an issue.
Nobody lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
Jokes aside, he was heavily supported by Russia and Israel who do have quite some influence through social media
He can’t be the anti-christ because his political power lasted longer than 3 and a half years
Dw I really don’t take this stuff serious (not religious)
It’s a fun read though
But hey you can argue he’s getting 3.5 years twice now (4 minus lame duck twice)
Yes but he’s only supposed to get ONE 3.5 years
Meaning he’s no the anti-Christ…
Hey, if they can cherry-pick the parts of the Bible to believe while ignoring the parts they don’t like then so can I.
*Edit: typo
That thumb has a name, Putin
Putin didn’t GAF about Donald Trump until he became useful enough. By that time the Orange Sack of Shit had already been stiffing creditors and skirting the law for decades, somehow living a life of abject luxury anyway, when if nature had taken its usual course he would have been a bankrupt nobody hustling $10 bar bets.
Life works differently for the haves than it does for the have-nots. This has been pretty much a constant in human societies…
i don’t think posts about him are appropriate here. the kind of dystopia wants to bring is not the boring kind. it’s straight up cartoonish shit, like the government from v for vendetta
So guilliani is gonna be bailed out, Vince McMahon is gonna get a pardon too, same with Elon for whatever he wants to do, and pretty much every evil billionaire out there. I also think Trump has no interest in governing, and this administration will be Vance and his project 25 people running the show
Regarding Elon, it’s even better than that: he’s probably getting a cabinet post. Say goodbye to the free and open internet where people are mean to him and daddy Trump. Goodbye encryption, and the “unauthorized” websites/web services. Hello tracking, dynamic pricing, and compulsive service use designed to drain your wallet.
Americans chose fuck around, and now we get to find out.
And bye-bye porn! The PORN!
Honestly it wouldn’t surprise me if they keep porn alive in a limited fashion to “track the deviants” as it were
Free Sam Bankman Fried. Maybe he can steal more money from morons
Until those morons realize not your keys, not your coins, they deserve to be stolen from.
thats such a powerful statement. thank you for adding to the conversation bro
Your welcome. Always love to help
you’re is a contraction of “you are” while your is possive.
you’re a fun person
your coins, your keys
it’s “you’re welcome”.
your is possessive. you’re is a contraction of “you are”. your welcome means you’re somehow talking about “my welcome”
Can he get Joe exotic Pardoned so at least we get some entertaining train wreck to keep our long off the politics?
Time and time again I remember this meme
Basically democracy is government after the people, by the people, for the people . . . but people are retarded . . .
Fuck this shit
There is a saying…
Make a mistake once and you can call it learning, make a mistake twice and you are eh… not so smart
Americans need education.
Is it too early to start talking about the abysmal failure of the “Vote Blue No Matter Who” strategy?
Those of us who gave it our all don’t deserve this.
A few thousand years ago the ancient Greeks said:
“δὶς ἐξαμαρτεῖν οὐκ ἀνδρὸς σοφοῦ”.
Roughly meaning: A wise person doesn’t make the same mistake twise.
But again some people keep doing it
Shithole country.
Diabetes, please do your job.
trump may very well die within the next 4 years, even 4 weeks after all that campaigning strain, but I am just no sure if JD wouldn’t make everything worse if he got hold of the reins?
One thing is sure President Vance would be a total shit show.
but I am just no sure if JD wouldn’t make everything worse if he got hold of the reins?
Honestly, it feels like the only hope is that things get bad enough for enough Trump supporters (and non-voters) to wake up to reality. And since Vance himself doesn’t seem to have the moron-whisperer charisma that Trump has, they may be more willing to turn on him.
Thiel is Vance’s backer. Vance would be a competent Trump. Much more dangerous.
Vance would just run everything according to Project 2025. I think he’d be like Trump but more competent.
JD Vance is a more effective stooge, because he does what he’s told without question. Trump at least has his particular brand of self-defeating chaos.
Vance is the Project 2025 guy, not Trump. You don’t want him as president, either.
There is an interesting question as to what happens if he dies before being sworn in. It’s not clear what succession looks like then, I think…
Likely JD Vance will be chosen as president, he gets some similar weirdo as a vice-president. He will be exactly like Trump, but without the charm.
I’m not as sure.
I hate Vance and he’d be a terrible President, but he also was firmly anti-Trump before, and only became a Trump sycophant for political reasons.
If Trump dies he may feel the freedom to do what he wants to do as President, while claiming to be Trump’s heir to the personality cult.
At this point it’s our best outcome.
I hate Vance and he’d be a terrible President, but he also was firmly anti-Trump before, and only became a Trump sycophant for political reasons.
He’s Peter Thiel’s property, so he’ll do whatever he tells him to do. And Thiel is a weird, evil and intelligent man. A Vance presidency would probably be less insane and more calculating (for better and for worse) than Trump at least.
I think Vance would consider consequences. He wouldn’t drop a nuke on a whim.
There’s actually a few more:
- undisputable evidence for destroying ballots, or some other stuff
- a lone gunman 3: this time an army professional with better guns
- unfaithful electors
- Biden lives with his new found presidental power, and does an “official act”
If the Dems took the House, some of those might be perversely better. But between Vance and Johnson, I’d take Vance.
And enough states have laws to prevent unfaithful electors to keep that from being an option.
I absolutely believe Trump won. The dems pushed hard on abortion while abortion was separately on the ballots in several swing states, so even for the virtually unheard-of single-issue pro-choice voters, they could just take care of that with the ballot initiative and then vote for Trump anyway. Meanwhile, the pro-life voters doubled-down against the Dems.
Pro-choice-centered campaigns have always been general election poison. The disasterous 2022 elections should have taught the Dems that. Or Wendy Davis’s 2014 Texas Gubanatorial campaign when she ran on abortion rights and lost by over 20 points in an open election against an unpopular Greg Abbot. At that time, Texas had only elected 2 Republican governors since the previous Democratic woman, and even Perry almost lost the Governor’s mansion in 2006.
Biden lives with his new found presidental power, and does an “official act”
Wow, that would be quite a thing. Dark to even think of him being the hero we need, but don’t deserve…
I am 100% sure that Biden doing anything at all that would change the outcome of the election would lead to rural versus urban civil war. Maybe that’s what we need. But it will be unbelievably terrible.
charm
Honestly, a smarter version of trump as president is a very concerning thought. I am not sure if it is better or much much worse.
Charismatic people rarely are smart because life is easier for them in the first place.
