FondrenRoad

They'll be fine. There's a sucker born every minute.

Of course not. Now that they have Ben Affleck leading them. If they still had Bruce Willis, they could have drilled to Spicer depth. But you'd have to drill through China and keep going into space on the other side before you get to McEnany depth.

Of course we sanction citizens and former officials, but when we really want to send a message to a government, we sanction current officials. Instead, China and the rest of the non-Russian world treated the last 4 years as if that regime wasn't long for the world. They waited it out. And it is an ousted regime. Any regime that leaves power against their will is ousted. The way in which they are ousted isn't all that relevant. The fact that Trump's foreign policy, if you can call it that, ran counter to nearly every other US administration (or regime) makes it an easy game for China and others to play. When dealing with Trump, they were dealing with Trump and not the US because Trump was a 4 year blip in policy continuity. And that was always the problem with Trump. He completely abandoned continuity. No other modern President has done so even when they may have desired a different approach because the "word" of the US matters. Other countries are clearly ready to let us get a do over. We should take it. There is simply no point in defending Trump policies that ran counter to decades of US policy. And don't pretend for a second that this is about the Uighurs. Doing so is simply disingenuous. Its a trade war move. Pompeo gives less of a fuck about the Uighurs than China does. If we want to make moves based on civil rights, and we should, we should not concern ourselves with sanctions against Pompeo in doing so. Apply sanctions to them until they leave the Uighurs alone. They can keep the sanctions on Pompeo all they want.

To be fair, these are private citizens now. When the USA sanctions, we often do it to current foreign officials which sends a much stronger message. China has intentionally avoided doing that and is instead sanctioning people who were part of what was equivalent to an ousted regime. No need for Biden to respond in kind. Let China have their retaliation against the individuals if it allows us to get back to a reasonable relationship. Half these guys should probably be in jail for foreign corrupt practices anyway.

Trump raised my taxes. Need SALT deductions back. Looking at rate comparisons is barely relevant. Determining what is taxable income in the first place is where taxes actually go up and down.

He probably only found out today that his account was suspended. Maybe his handlers didn't want his feelings to be hurt, so the white house IT team built a fake Twitter and he has been posting on it for the last 2 weeks.

Yep. Biden's own words to Obama following healthcare reform part 1 are appropriate here too, "this is a big fucking deal." Things are looking up, but eternal vigilance is required.

Hopefully they disinfected it. You know Trump opened it up to jerk off with his shit head spawn while they pretended to blow up Europe.

That limo is still waiting. Trump pardons are a money game and Carole Baskin has more than Joe.

He probably ramped up the tax fraud over the last 4 years in preparation for it. No telling how much he has embezzled from his campaign either. He was dirty as hell before he was President. I can't imagine how dirty he became once he thought he had a get out of jail free card.

Eh, its the gen z equivalent of telling your friends that you once knew that person. And another one of the huge problems with social media. What used to be an off the cuff comment to someone you know can now become a global comment to everyone in the world.

My mom was fairly progressive too. She passed away in the 90s before all the social media or even cable news/radio shows really got started. She was a daily paper reader and never a nightly news watcher anyway. If she was alive, she would be somewhere between furious with Trump and jaded about it all. I have no idea where she would get her news from now. I will say though that I have gained additional respect for her choices since all of her friends are absolutely anti-Trump now even though they are mostly all old southern and Texas white ladies. Can't say the same for her brothers, sisters, and the rest of our relatives. I have had to say adios to some of my cousins. And only 10 years ago, they were your regular fake southern conservatives, but otherwise fine. Some people weren't cut out for the internet, and almost nobody was cut out for social media.

Does the monkey go inside the briefcase or does it carry the briefcase in?

Antifa isn't anarchist. It also isn't Biden supporters specifically.

He would have to pay any real lawyer their expected lifetime earnings since they would never be able to work again afterward.

It will be on the grounds of Mar a Lago so Trump can charge it rent in perpetuity at twice the market rate. Set up in a way to maximize the money funnel from the non profit library to himself.

Zero chance he takes his ball and goes home. When he finally has a heart attack on the shitter, his last act will be to make sure he hits send on the conspiracy tweet he was writing before he even tries to press his life alert button.

Nah. They were better stewards of the land than we are. They didn't use all the land just because they could. Most land wasn't controlled by anyone. Which makes what we did all the shittier. We didn't necessarily even want to use the land they were actually on. We just wanted them off it. There are hardly any towns that were founded on top of a former native american settlement. But they could get back the land they did use.

And we need to protect the natural beauty. Within a decade, Trumpistan would have it fully clear cut and covered in nuclear waste and other pollution. Future MAGA generations will work as children sifting through the dump for copper. Any independent Trump state is going to make a Mumbai slum look environmentally clean in comparison.

Could also give native Americans their original lands back. They never wanted to live in Oklahoma anyway.

MN, WI, IL, and MI can get to the northeast via Ontario. Without MAGA, the remaining USA is going to be much cozier with Canada and may have an EU style customs and labor union. But you do need to give MAGA a port, so LA, MS, and AL are the best bet. Give African Americans the funding and the option to move to the new USA if they want to. Get heavy handed with sanctions against MAGA for civil rights violations.

Put him in with the black folks. I imagine that corrections officers usually side with the Aryans and probably don't give a shit about Congress, but they also dont take kindly to people involved in the death of cops. Personally, I think it sucks that our prison system operates based on street justice and the whole thing needs to be reformed into a Nordic model. But as long as we do things the way we do, these assholes should suffer under it.

Hard to say. Most elected Republicans are still loyal to Trump. That being said, I think only a handful are true believers. The rest are just opportunists who want Trump's voters. The real danger will probably be the pol that takes up Trump's mantle. Trump is an idiot. Someone like Hawley is smarter than Trump, has his own fascist dreams, and just needs to thread the needle for a little while and get Trump's blessing. The other thing about fascism is that the second guy is nearly always worse than the first.

Most successful fascists were thwarted on the first attempt. Hitler, Chavez, al Bakr (Saddam's predecessor).

I favor government regulation if not outright control of tech that is comparable to a public forum. That way public forum rules can actually apply. But you guys are getting what you wanted. Twitter is a private entity and can do what it wants. Corporations are people too. Communist! And I also think everyone who incites violence on social media should be charged with it.