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Ojo Rojo

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  1. It has to be Tomi Lahren. Has to be.
  2. An anti-vax crackpot as head of HHS. This shit is fucking rich. Wow!
  3. This is so great. The Sandy Hook families bid part of their debt so that The Onion could pull this off. They got his ass in the end. I was so afraid his cronies were going to get it and it would be business as usual. Not so fast, asshole!
  4. I wonder what Elon and Vivek will have to say about privatizing a function we are already paying people to do.
  5. Government doesn't actually function without the bureaucrats. It's possible that the heads of all of these departments, who are Trump loyalists and true-believers, will try to do dumb and evil shit, but the bureaucrats who have to actually carry it out with just say, "Nah, fuck you." Or they can just stall and gum up the works while pretending to follow orders. Sure they can be fired and replaced - with a loyalist who doesn't know how to do the job. That will take time for training and if there aren't anymore people around who know how to do the jobs then nothing actually gets done. So if the head of the EPA tells someone, "Go burn down that forest!" and enough people say no and then no one knows where the matches and gasoline are, the forest doesn't get burned. This is me trying to not be fatalistic.
  6. This is a bit. You seriously could not TRY to make worse cabinet picks than these. Bravo. I've got my popcorn. This is going to be comedic gold.
  7. Stupid and mean is a very, very bad combination.
  8. This is an intellectual integrity test: 1. Do you think that prosecuting people for political reasons is acceptable? 2. Do you think political actors should be prosecuted when they have committed a crime?
  9. There are benevolent and liberal rich, like Warren Buffett and Bill Gates. Buffett has been saying to tax the rich more for years. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have been pumping this message forever. It's not taking for some reason. My guess is that the political right and right wing media have done a better job of inciting people with immigration, abortion and guns. And demonizing liberals in general. Someone upthread, or maybe a different thread, talked about division in country music between the hippies and the rednecks and how Willie bridged that gap. Maybe a folk hero who appeals to both the rednecks and the hippies would be able to get the message out in a way that would be heard. I vote McConaughey.
  10. https://www.facebook.com/reel/912970430750927
  11. No, I mean that it's actually being discussed.
  12. Yeah, this is normal. Very, very normal.
  13. Sorry, but this is way wrong. Most of the Republican base is not rich; they are pissed off that they are not rich, in fact. The rich, by and large, are Republicans for selfish financial reasons. Demonizing the rich is a tried and true message to get masses of working class people under your tent.
  14. https://www.texastribune.org/2024/10/30/texas-abortion-ban-josseli-barnica-death-miscarriage/ https://www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/abortion-ballot-measures-reports-miscarriage-deaths-rcna178660 Not only have at least two women died directly because of the abortion ban, but maternal mortality is way up. It's not as simple as allowing ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage abortion; there are far-reaching consequences. *Edit - And oh by the way, if you go looking for truth in Congressional hearings....HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. There is no greater bullshit dog and pony show on planet earth. Democrat or Republican driven.
  15. This is pretty disingenuous. NBC, WaPo and CNN paid a settlement, the terms of which were confidential. Could have been millions; could have been nuisance value. The remaining 5 cases were later dismissed, which was upheld on appeal and then not taken up by SCOTUS. To compare this little shit to the Fox settlement is absurd.
  16. Fuck yes. You can have integrity and tell the truth or you can win elections. In American politics, you can't do both. At least underlying our lies would be a genuine desire to work for the greater good, the downtrodden and the future of the country.
  17. I proposed demonizing the rich and corporations. Uneducated white middle class people can easily hate them and believe they are causing all of their problems. We can also go all in on immigrants because they don't vote.
  18. The difference is that those media outlets report fact-based news tinged with bias. On the other hand, conservative outlets, like Fox, report things that actually didn't happen. There is no tinge of bias; a huge percentage of it is just outright lies. It's not a matter of both groups believing bullshit. It's a matter of one group is mostly tethered to the truth and the other isn't restrained from any farfetched lie.
  19. Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
  20. Putting this here to be quoted a million times in this thread.
  21. Is that Roger Staubach in the background?
  22. I don't know, I don't go for all of the Chicken Little bullshit. I don't want to be the frog in the boiling water, but I also don't want to be a panicking alarmist responding to hyperbole and talk without action. He tried to leverage aid to Ukraine for an investigation into Biden - failed. He said he was going to build a wall at the southern border and have Mexico pay for it - failed. He incited an insurrection in an attempt to prevent certification of the 2020 election - failed. Tried to repeal Obamacare - failed. We can parse the record to determine what he did do and whether it was good or bad, but most of those things fall into policy differences, not objectively bad, evil or illegal. I'm not saying I'm hopeful he does good things - I'm not. I'm not saying he won't try to do bad, evil and illegal things, let alone immoral and unethical. I'm saying that all or almost all of the worst things he said he's going to do, based on history, will probably fail.
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