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Post by nalyd on Jul 5, 2018 15:09:13 GMT -5
Now let's see what kind of supervillain replaces him.
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Post by DrewBlood on Jul 5, 2018 15:14:30 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2018 15:17:16 GMT -5
that motherfucker would double down and hire someone shittier. but at least scott pruit looks like a failure pos
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2018 11:11:46 GMT -5
There was a group of GOP reps who spent July 4th in Russia. Supposedly to tell em no meddle in elections pls
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2018 11:20:13 GMT -5
Iowa will gladly elect an actual white supremacist piece of shit again.  |
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Post by Top Rope Swanton on Jul 6, 2018 11:31:16 GMT -5
Pence just had a big circle jerk to which he said that ICE will indeed remain
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Post by snail on Jul 6, 2018 15:34:08 GMT -5
How is this not a big deal? Maybe I’m too dumb to get it, but this seems like it should be a big problem. |
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Post by Porch Honky on Jul 6, 2018 16:19:04 GMT -5
How is this not a big deal? Maybe I’m too dumb to get it, but this seems like it should be a big problem. Because ~40% of the US voting population has fully bought into a cult. |
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Post by solidsnake on Jul 6, 2018 16:47:24 GMT -5
How is this not a big deal? Maybe I’m too dumb to get it, but this seems like it should be a big problem. Because ~40% of the US voting population has fully bought into a cult. “We weren’t electing a saint.” etc., etc. Right wing media won’t provide the full context either, treating it like Stormy Daniels all over again. Deny it, deny it, deny it, “well, okay then,”......move on quickly. Without examining the bald faced, crazy ass corruption part of the equation. Like, the degree of craziness in this corruption is even surprising for Trump, in that it’s so fucking blatant and stupid. |
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Post by slowmath on Jul 6, 2018 16:54:06 GMT -5
How is this not a big deal? Maybe I’m too dumb to get it, but this seems like it should be a big problem. It should be a bigger deal, but the problem is that a lot of it is circumstantial evidence. For me, Broldy admitting to the NDA once its existence was revealed is the biggest red flag. He's not even actually named in it, so why admit it unless he wanted to stop people from looking too far into it? Broldy was also previously convicted of bribing public officials, so him paying $1.5 million and covering for Trump in exchange for access to him isn't exactly out of the realm of possibility. especially so when he could parlay that access into contracts worth many times more than that. I mean, it's entirely possible that Broldy really did knock up that Playmate and paid for the abortion and for her silence since that's a simpler explanation... but the WH meeting after the first payment wen't through and him immediately blabbing that it was him should be viewed with a lot of suspicion. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2018 16:55:21 GMT -5
The level of idiocy and emotional schizophrenia involved is just straight up culture death.
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Post by solidsnake on Jul 6, 2018 17:10:54 GMT -5
The Infinite Mulligans Presidency
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Post by lobsterdog on Jul 6, 2018 18:25:31 GMT -5
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Post by immortalrites on Jul 6, 2018 21:29:19 GMT -5
I'm still in awe of the brainworm induced nonsense Trump let rip at his rally in Montana. When he's throwing slop to the hogs he really just lets loose in a way that's truly insane. Abolish the presidency.
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Post by Top Rope Swanton on Jul 7, 2018 7:54:08 GMT -5
missin' my barry O right now ;(
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Post by babyteeth on Jul 7, 2018 10:13:09 GMT -5
serious question: how do y'all deal with the like, crushing hopelessness of the world we're living in right now?? i find it hard to think about stuff for more than like 5 minutes without feeling like i should just lay in bed until i die. i recognize that a lot of this administration's strategy is about trying to overwhelm us with nonstop horror until we turn completely numb and unable to resist in any way, but also it's kinda working bc resistance already feels futile and impossible
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Post by scumontherun on Jul 7, 2018 10:13:15 GMT -5
This 70 yr old tried to get into the congressman campaign center and threatened to kill him/his staff and trump/trump supporters. He was arrested and being charged with making terrorist threats. What an idiot
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Post by solidsnake on Jul 7, 2018 10:26:25 GMT -5
serious question: how do y'all deal with the like, crushing hopelessness of the world we're living in right now?? i find it hard to think about stuff for more than like 5 minutes without feeling like i should just lay in bed until i die. i recognize that a lot of this administration's strategy is about trying to overwhelm us with nonstop horror until we turn completely numb and unable to resist in any way, but also it's kinda working bc resistance already feels futile and impossible I remind myself people are freer and more prosperous now than at any point previous. But progress isn’t linear or inevitable. And I fear ascendant authoritarianism on both the right and the left (but let’s get real, mostly the right). And my view of humanity, and specifically human psychology, is dimmer than it was a couple years ago. The amount of cognitive dissonance people can indulge is limitless if you constantly a) tell them “we’re the good guys” and b) play to their basest, most hateful impulses. There is no floor to this, no lowest point. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2018 10:26:59 GMT -5
serious question: how do y'all deal with the like, crushing hopelessness of the world we're living in right now?? i find it hard to think about stuff for more than like 5 minutes without feeling like i should just lay in bed until i die. i recognize that a lot of this administration's strategy is about trying to overwhelm us with nonstop horror until we turn completely numb and unable to resist in any way, but also it's kinda working bc resistance already feels futile and impossible It's been a long time coming. All the policies are increasingly worse and the only thing I pray for anymore is that the next big terror attack or economic meltdown happens under someone else. This quote has stuck with me. "...Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don't want to act, or even talk, alone; you don't want to 'go out of your way to make trouble.' Why not?-Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.
Uncertainty is a very important factor, and, instead of decreasing as time goes on, it grows. Outside, in the streets, in the general community, 'everyone' is happy. One hears no protest, and certainly sees none. You know, in France or Titaly there would be slogans against the government painted on walls and fences; in Germany, outside the great cities, perhaps, there is not even this. In the university community, in your own community, you speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, 'It's not so bad' or 'You're seeing things' or 'You're an alarmist.'
And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can't prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don't know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic. You are left with your close friends, who are, naturally, people who have always thought as you have....
But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That's the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked-if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in '43 had come immediately after the 'German Firm' stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in '33. But of course this isn't the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.
And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying 'Jewish swine,' collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in-your nation, your people-is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way." |
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Post by solidsnake on Jul 7, 2018 10:36:03 GMT -5
I honestly don’t know if a left wing populist demagogue would’ve found more resistance. Im hoping, in the future, the answer is no. For the same reason talk radio is a gigantic market on the right and Air America never picked up steam. I haven’t pored over social or political science literature on the matter, but it seems the left (at least in America) is more beholden to nuance and reason than the right.
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Post by hatredgrowsininches on Jul 7, 2018 10:45:46 GMT -5
serious question: how do y'all deal with the like, crushing hopelessness of the world we're living in right now?? i find it hard to think about stuff for more than like 5 minutes without feeling like i should just lay in bed until i die. i recognize that a lot of this administration's strategy is about trying to overwhelm us with nonstop horror until we turn completely numb and unable to resist in any way, but also it's kinda working bc resistance already feels futile and impossible im considering getting back on that old horse that horse is heroin |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2018 10:53:34 GMT -5
serious question: how do y'all deal with the like, crushing hopelessness of the world we're living in right now?? i find it hard to think about stuff for more than like 5 minutes without feeling like i should just lay in bed until i die. i recognize that a lot of this administration's strategy is about trying to overwhelm us with nonstop horror until we turn completely numb and unable to resist in any way, but also it's kinda working bc resistance already feels futile and impossible I remind myself people are freer and more prosperous now than at any point previous. But progress isn’t linear or inevitable. And I fear ascendant authoritarianism on both the right and the left (but let’s get real, mostly the right). And my view of humanity, and specifically human psychology, is dimmer than it was a couple years ago. The amount of cognitive dissonance people can indulge is limitless if you constantly a) tell them “we’re the good guys” and b) play to their basest, most hateful impulses. There is no floor to this, no lowest point. People believe progress is linear though. This is our dumb fascination with Elon Musk. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2018 11:50:24 GMT -5
I felt like we're approaching Obama ACORN Soros level conspiracy after reading all of those but that all seems too likely.
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Post by solidsnake on Jul 7, 2018 11:53:12 GMT -5
I felt like we're approaching Obama ACORN Soros level conspiracy after reading all of those but that all seems too likely. I’m like 70/30 on it being true. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2018 12:01:48 GMT -5
The Qatar stuff is the weird part.
But honestly, dude was RNC finance for a long time, steps down then comes back in 2017, gets 1.8 billion in contracts, and for what?
Taking the fall for a botched million dollar NDA abortion? Stormy only got $130k but all of this being true only really proves one thing.
Trump sucks at making deals.
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