pithy
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6 minutes ago, Jazzy Jan said:
Exactly. America is becoming a fascist country right now in front of the world's eyes and unless Americans do something and do something quickly to stop this such as mass protests, nobody giving in to his corrupt and unlawful actions - this will be so hard to reverse. The media also needs to step up massively. Trump is trying to threaten and silence the media and it is a MUST that they call him out.
Instead, seeing so much talk of Joe Biden INSTEAD of reporting the destruction of the constitution, ignoring long held laws, intimidation of anyone that does not agree with Trump, his love of evil dictator leaders and hatred of democratic allies and obvious bribery is shameful. Jake Tapper especially is a disgrace. Spending all this time taking of Biden and promoting his book INSTEAD of calling out the incredibly real danger facing all Americans right now.
Frighteningly, there was a report just yesterday about how CEOs at Disney have instructed even the women of The View to tone down their anti-Trump dialogue. Irrespective of how seriously one takes the show, we can safely assume, if that's the direct order they're getting, it has to be true that we have the biggest corporations in the world pathetically kowtowing to him across the board. You're right: the American people are being failed miserably by the media's powers that be.
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There's no way insecure and entitled Trump doesn't see it as a direct affront, the one it pretty much is, but maybe he's too frightened of Elon for the moment. Really need for things to kick off between them.
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On 3/9/2025 at 12:26 PM, Paul said:
why do you ask...
Apparently, buddy Peter Thiel, one of his "normal gay guys," talked him around to Catholicism. There's no question here.
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2 hours ago, promise to try said:
what? another airplane crashing? I guess it could happen, but that´s weird...anyways, let´s see how Trump twists evereything to blame Biden
She's talking about DEI initiatives, suggesting in this case that black pilots are being hired to meet quotas and not because they can do the job. She's a moron.
Edit: Posted this before hearing about the Philly crash and thought you were commenting on the press secretary's example from this morning. Oops.
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"I really don't care" that someone who was a professional model can look nice in a gown. She's foul.
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TIL there's only one remaining OG Village Person, and he's apparently hetero?! And was married to the beautiful Phylicia Rashad.
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Never need to see Zuckerberg's mug again. People need to leave these platforms en masse, myself included. I'm on FB for Marketplace, and I only ever use the website, not wanting to grant an actual app permissions, but my intensifying sense is that even this is too much.
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Just now, Supernatural said:
You're probably right, but IMO parading him around like a Batman villain will still appeal to some people.
Ah, that's a great point: there are so many with nothing to live for who'd love to experience that infamy. It might inform their copycat crimes more than the righteous rage angle.
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Well, it has to do with trying to deter people from emulating him. Even if he retains mass support, to let him be that sort of folk hero with minimal consequences would be to invite others to follow his lead - whatever that might look like to them. But to mete out the most severe treatment possible at every turn shows intent to "scare straight," as it were, anyone wondering if they should do as he did. He's not going to have an easy time of this; he won't get a pass. Which I'm sure he knew. He measured his life and determined this a worthy sacrifice. Obviously, our centres of power are determined to convince would-be followers it wasn't.
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1 hour ago, Ciccone's Cheeks said:
Calling it now. But only IF the US actually has a fully legit election in 2028 lol. I'm barely 50/50 on that now.
Bet you (almost) ANYthing the most giddy Dems on earth now are Shapiro, Whitmer, Moore & Bashear. But ESP Shapiro. Boy is famished for POTUS & got the glow. Of course tempted to say Newsom too but tired ah brand, can't do anything 'CA' again & wouldn't stop doing laps around Bidens busted ball sack. Lol Damaged goods .
Whitmer is fantastic and absolutely COULD have won if she ended up as Bidens VP instead of Harris. It's what it is tho & near 0 chance Dems are gonna put forth ANYone but a straight white man. Ya, Shapiro isn't obv Christian lol but if he crushes it in his 2026 PA re election, he's IT. Hakeem Jeffries too but gonna & gotta be a key swing state moderate w/ crossover appeal & proven winner.
Bookmark or screenshot me on this call lol then come back in 2026/27.
Imagine behind the scenes who's/which power players already bombarding him! Lol
Do you think Shapiro did want to be Kamala's VP pick at the time? I doubt his being on the ticket would've made enough of an impact, so, from today's fuller perspective, his not having been chosen could only be to his career's great benefit. Hell, maybe he sensed where things were going and found the most masterfully tactful way out ever.
Personally, I'm more impressed by Hakeem Jeffries so far. Also, yeah, someone needs to get Justice Sotomayor in touch with that one tech bro billionaire who spends most of his time trying to facsimile endless youth. She needs tips.
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The voters shouldn't be held guiltless. They ARE still worthy of contempt. We all temper our expectations and acquiesce on some matters when we vote. It's not a mail order catalogue from which anyone can expect perfection. To sit it out because the significantly better of the two isn't stainlessly faultless is asinine and delusional and a luxury to which only the very few should ever feel licensed. Especially with so much at stake, I don't need to read too many excuses for the voters. It's a given that the DNC will need to reassess everything, obviously, but myriad things can be true at once.
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Biden should've taken himself out of the race sooner. Irrespective of the fairness of it all, if you're tainted to that degree in the collective imagination, even mistakenly, you have to go. Another primary thereafter would've been ideal, but even having retrieved Harris from the basement a lot sooner could've given her a better shot. She ran a good campaign and revealed herself to have been underutilized from the get-go.
On the other hand, yeah, these are quibbles when juxtaposed with the alternative for which people went out with bells on. Looking at the electorate, it's almost a lost cause.
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The SCOTUS will be replenished with new Republican justices. There goes that for another few decades. There are basically no guardrails now and anyone sensible within his circle, anyone by whom his worst instincts could've possibly been dismantled, has left. This thing's far-reaching tentacles should be so much worse than before.
It sucks, but, as this is what people went out and chose, it's almost hard to imagine the population could even deserve better. Whatever transpires, people will have done it to themselves.
Anyway, I guess everyone on here, because of the nature of this board, has already cycled through chapters of NOT being protected by the various centres of power in our respective lives, whether that was because of someone's being gay or a woman or whatever. And although no one wants to regress, we've survived, even thrived, so I hope most will be able to once again recalibrate for whatever conditions come.
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Over his comments in Philly from a few weeks ago. Let's hope his day will just keep getting worse.
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Although we can never afford to take anything for granted, the picture that's been painted suggests she has the momentum. Even if she were to win, I would still be disturbed and honestly disgusted that it could be so close. But here's hoping.
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She looked so formidable while speaking at the Ellipse the other day - so presidential.
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His whole campaign is about being filthily racist. It's a feature - the feature - to his supporters, not a bug. He pretty much just cycles through the minorities, targeting each one in turn, routinely making every one of the rest feel like there must be at least some other sad, sad group less proximate to the "ideal" in the age-old hierarchy of societal partitioning he perpetuates: no opportunities, no prospects, but at least we're a little closer to the grail than those guys!
Racism is all he has, and his supporters who mistakenly think they have some cell of skin in the game (literally, in the case of the impoverished white people about whom he'll never actually give a fuck, but who can at least be given carte blanche to revel in their being white) are happy enough with their lots not to want meaningful change, as long as they can go on lying to themselves that they're somehow superior to their fellow man.
Least deceived by the schismatic rhetoric are black women, who can't believe they're proximate to white men because they know they are unable to reap unearned privileges of either race or sex; there are reasons why they make up the most consistent Democratic voting bloc. And, oh, wouldn't these truths of her identity make his loss to Kamala Harris that much more glorious and gratifying? She's not infallible but I don't care. She must win.
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It's no secret that CNN benefits from the sideshow of buffoonery and societal decay. The Trump spectacle has done wonders for the network's ratings. On some level, I'm sure there are mercenary forces at play that continue to welcome the chaos.
I haven't really watched much this year, but the talent was lacking when my interest dropped off. Some of its most gifted analysts are underutilized. If I had it my way, Laura Coates, whom I adore, would feature much more prominently.
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Though idiotic, it's tactical hedging. They're trying to make it seem like there's a place in the Trump regime for those who support choice, as in the vast majority of Americans. Of course, she can really just keep it until it translates to (proposed) policy, which it won't.
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The other "collectibles" available on her site.
Quite a fetching 3D animated rose graphic, and at the low price of $150?
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To be honest, the lack of his acceptance is the best part of that child's trans inheritance, and she should thank her lucky stars. It means she doesn't have to care about him; it means the scales were destined to fall from her eyes. I have to imagine it would be much more difficult to have a psychopathic loser for a parent if they did love and accept and support you.
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10 hours ago, bardo said:
avril is awful. i've liked a few of her songs but she is ... not smart.
She is a shocking interviewee.
Every time anyone mentions that phenomenon about how a star can just stop ripening the second fame finds them, I have instant visions of her.
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Gotta be honest: following the release of LOVE SUX, an album featuring such hits as "Bois Lie", there was a months-long period in 2022 when I would've conducted myself in a shameful manner NOT DISSIMILAR to OP's here. What a (straight) woman!
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Shouldn't go there since she obviously has bigger hake fish to salt-cure 'n' sear right now, but I wonder if Hilaria knows how lucky she is that her thing only required a box of hair dye, a few minutes spent noting the accent of Sofia Vergara, a tanning appointment, and a tattered copy of How to Forget the Names of Produce Products for Dummies. Work it out, mamacita.
U.S. presidency and politics thread
in Politics and World Events
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Definitely. I guess it's why so many people still seem to be floundering. If someone could believe his being elected were only through some horrible miscalculation, a fluke, as was many people's impression in 2016, there's no reason why they couldn't view resistance as a possibility. But to understand that the electorate went out and chose him - again, after everything - must be so utterly dispiriting that whatever further horrors may unfold probably feel like foregone conclusions, and deserved.
Although no place is safe unless there are those willing to fight, it's hard to fault the ones with the means to do so who just get up and leave; it's truly wasteland there if he's what the people want.