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  21 hours ago, Chuckie Finster said:

This is the government Schumer fought to keep open.

Also goes without saying, but you do not introduce the concept of “unpardons” if you ever plan to cede power to the opposition.

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That can be said for a ton of shit that they're doing. 

Over/under on the filibuster getting nuked? I say it happens by fall.

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  On 3/16/2025 at 8:11 PM, jimmyjazz said:

Man, what do you have against Laura Linney?

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She's a brilliant actress and seems like a lovely person in interviews. It was a drive by post and I could have been much more clear. LL is terrific at playing a a character with a certain brittleness, a woman whose socially acceptable facade is being held up only by herculean effort. I just look at #2 and think of a Laura Linney character at her worst. 

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  On 3/17/2025 at 3:59 AM, Willfully Horn said:
By studying USAID memos, the NYT estimates that  “dark maga’s” demonic plan will result in the deaths of over three million people by the end of the year.
 
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I think this is the link Might be wrong because I canceled my subscription.
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/health/usaid-cuts-deaths-infections.html
 

I grew up hearing “never forget the holocaust!” all the time. What a waste of time…
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Posted (edited)
  18 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

I was mainly saying that LL is way more attractive, even at her worst.

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Oh, she'd get it for sure, with "Business Time" level of proficiency on my part. But two minutes in heaven is better than one minute in heaven.

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SIAP but this makes me want to KMS. 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-notches-all-time-high-approval-rating-as-dems-hit-new-low/

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Looks like ol' Conor's been injecting the steroids directly into his skull.

How the hell did Dana White and Joe Rogan end up with this kind of power?  25 years ago they were part of a fledgling PPV of fights at riverboat casinos.  Now they help run the GOP.  Fucking bizarre world, man.

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  16 hours ago, TexArcher said:

Looks like ol' Conor's been injecting the steroids directly into his skull.

How the hell did Dana White and Joe Rogan end up with this kind of power?  25 years ago they were part of a fledgling PPV of fights at riverboat casinos.  Now they help run the GOP.  Fucking bizarre world, man.

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Because we live in the stupidest of timelines.

The US is the most prosperous and influential nation since the heyday of the British Empire.  And we are going to blow it ALL up.  For.....absolutely no good reason at all.

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  16 hours ago, mchookem said:

Americans are shitty. i fought that notion for a very long time, in my own heart and with others who embraced that perspective long ago. i've made arguments before about our innovation and arts and independent spirit and being a force for good in the world. 

but...the evidence overwhelmingly disputes what i thought and felt about what my country was. so okay. 

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This exact realization was what hit me, and I suspect many on this board, like a ton of bricks the morning after the election.  THIS is who we are.

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  15 hours ago, BrickHorn said:

I’ve come to this conclusion recently about many of my once-favorite extended family members. I’ve basically cut off an entire side of my extended family. Always thought they were cool and fun and generally good people. Now it’s clear that they’re a bunch of shallow, selfish, religious zealot assholes.

It’s depressing. But you know what? My wife, my kids, my in-laws, my parents, my friends, and most of my aunts and cousins on the other side of the family are super cool and good, thoughtful people. And their happiness means more to me than maintaining civility with a bunch of idiot fascists I used to enjoy. 

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I have my sister, and she is the greatest person on earth.  Between her, my wife (who is more conservative than I in some respects but who rails against the bullshit) and my kids (who are typical kids trying to feel their way) I feel incredibly blessed.  I do have a Fox News aunt I try to tolerate, and various cousins for whom I have no political read and almost zero contact.  It's a crazy world.

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A white minority group in South Africa has been a central focus for Trump.

Trump falsely accused the South African government of a rights violation against white Afrikaner farmers by seizing their land through a new expropriation law. No land has been seized and the South African government has pushed back, saying U.S. criticism is driven by misinformation.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-south-africa-rubio-ambassador-musk-pollak-f8bad19709f437e4076fbb56ef94b9df

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I think Trump's policies are generally driven by misinformation. I think driven by misinformation could be identified as his entire political life's major theme.

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  On 3/14/2025 at 7:37 PM, WhatTheBuck said:

Maybe make Canada the 51st state. Republicans never win another national election and we get universal health care. 

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  On 3/14/2025 at 7:41 PM, hookem2010 said:

Trudeau 2028!

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If someway, somehow Canada started going down the path to being annexed, I would bet any amount that Trump would slightly change his tune. He would start to refer to Canada as a future American territory without voting power. Same with Greenland. No chance they would get statehood even if their citizens wanted to become a state.

  14 hours ago, gernblansten said:

I think Trump's policies are generally driven by misinformation. I think driven by misinformation could be identified as his entire political life's major theme.

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Most of his offhand comments are sourced by what he reads on Truth Social

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i mean there's a reason cults are cults. Jim Jones got like 1000 people to not only kill themselves but also their own children. so did David Koresh. a million people believe God used invisible ink to tell John Smith to fuck a bunch teenage girls.

for all our higher functions, most humans are pretty damn gullible and malleable. Americans are not special. 

i think that's my big conclusion...our place will be no more exceptional than a billion others in history. 

of you can get there^ and embrace it, there really is a kind of calmness.

just try for this

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Trump decided that $15/hr was too much for people working on federal projects.

He has killed the executive order that raised the minimum wage for federal contractors to $15/hr and drove federal investments toward companies that agree to union neutrality.

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  15 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

I had a phone call yesterday from one of my best buddies from law school. We were discussing MAGA, and the inability of those morons to see what Trump is as a person or leader, and he said that he knows so many people who have cut off contact with relatives and friends over this, but none of the people being shunned would ever admit that any of the issues about team MAGA being anti-women anti-minority anti-brown people anti-science, etc.

He told me, “I have no earthly idea why people think something like a discussion with facts will change the mind of someone MAGA - when that someone is more than willing to suffer being cut off from friends and family without a second thought rather than abandon the cult“

I thought that was an astute observation,  as there is literally nothing we can say or do to change most cultists minds about Trump. it is a fever dream that we can convince people to be less gullible, less ignorant, or less hateful.   At this point, it is baked in beyond withdrawal unless they and there’s personally suffer some unusual amount of pain and poverty that can be directly attributed to Trump.   And even then it is not a given.

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It was never about reaching the core MAGAs.  It was always about reaching the fringe MAGAs.  People like my mom, who irrationally hated Hilary because she was told to do so.  She got sick of Trump, in particular it was his bleach injection moment that pushed her over the edge, as my sister and I worked on getting her to recognize the idiot for being an idiot.  She voted for Biden in 2020.   But we failed to keep up the pressure, we got busy, and by 2024 she hated Harris for some mysterious reason yet again.    Those are the people who can be reached.   But if they are married to MAGA and surrounded by MAGA they are susceptible to revert.   

 

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I had dinner last weekend with a family member who voted for Dotard at least once. He fucking hates him now, and is ashamed that he ever supported him. So, it does happen.

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It does happen but that is like a fifth of the people that vote for him the so called "independents", 40% of the country is completely evil, I keep telling people that are still naive in believing in the constitution, that the only avenue left is not a dead piece of paper but  people in the streets. massive protests first, then refuse to buy anything for a set amount of time and lastly a general strike.

He will never obey the courts. And if he does it is only temporary before he arrests all judges.

I keep reading the /r/conservative subreddit but it is a waste of time, they are not repentant they are evil 100% of the time, just that liberal reddit upvote the occasional dissenter.

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It feels like this selfish idiocy was mostly tamped down in the 70s/80s/90/s/00s. The embers were clearly still lit underneath, but society generally shunned this behavior and kept it at bay. So what happened? Did the invention of the internet and social media eventually unleash a consequence free platform to re-popularize these shameful thoughts and ideas? 

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Posted (edited)
  14 hours ago, Red Five said:

I had dinner last weekend with a family member who voted for Dotard at least once. He fucking hates him now, and is ashamed that he ever supported him. So, it does happen.

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well, in honor of st patrick, here's what I'd say to them
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  13 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

So what happened? Did the invention of the internet and social media eventually unleash a consequence free platform to re-popularize these shameful thoughts and ideas? 

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Posted
  13 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

It feels like this selfish idiocy was mostly tamped down in the 70s/80s/90/s/00s. The embers were clearly still lit underneath, but society generally shunned this behavior and kept it at bay. So what happened? Did the invention of the internet and social media eventually unleash a consequence free platform to re-popularize these shameful thoughts and ideas? 

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The US has been in economic decline since Y2K the single most important economic metric to keep fascism at bay was real median income and it has been declining for 25 years, most of the growth has accumulated on top, that is the real fuel. Then social media, talk radio etc provided the oxygen with their stale breath and Trump was the ignition.

Democrats becoming the corpocrat party could not have come at the worst possible moment, when we needed an FDR we kept getting the Clintons over and over and over.

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Posted
  13 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

It feels like this selfish idiocy was mostly tamped down in the 70s/80s/90/s/00s. The embers were clearly still lit underneath, but society generally shunned this behavior and kept it at bay. So what happened? Did the invention of the internet and social media eventually unleash a consequence free platform to re-popularize these shameful thoughts and ideas? 

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Remember how Biden insisted on inviting Trump to the White House, being all cordial, offering to help where he could, saying "welcome home!" to Dotard at the WH, riding over to the inauguration with him, etc? 

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  13 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

It feels like this selfish idiocy was mostly tamped down in the 70s/80s/90/s/00s. The embers were clearly still lit underneath, but society generally shunned this behavior and kept it at bay. So what happened? Did the invention of the internet and social media eventually unleash a consequence free platform to re-popularize these shameful thoughts and ideas? 

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Yes, before the internet people would say stupid shit like  "Hitler didn't murder millions of people, public workers did" and they would be laughed at and either 1) forced to realize that they are wrong and their innate desire to be a part of a community would take over and lead to a reevaluation of their beliefs or 2) exiled into a life as that weird hermit guy down the street.

Now they can put that shit on the internet and immediately find a community of similarly insane people who agree.  No matter what you say or do, there's never a need to self-reflect when you can immediately find a new circle of people (or bots) who agree with you.  Eventually this group got big enough to hijack a political party whose only concrete belief is "lib tears."

 

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