Classic playbook of “don’t do this or, we’ll do exactly what we already do”. “Don’t tax churches, or they will get involved in politics”. Don’t raise minimum wage or the prices of things will go up".

The super wealthy don’t understand threats.

I can just imagine if they were terrorists with hostages.

“Bam Bam Bam Bam” “rich guy: OK I need a million dollars or I’m going to kill the hostages” “negotiator: You mean those corpses at your feet?”

though, he could actually be on to something in factuality. something that is noted is, there’s giant holes in flock camera coverage on deflock… mainly in super rich areas. If hypothetically the government actually chose to enforce rich people crimes as they do poor people crimes, they might fill in those holes. Of course, that’s also even assuming that if such a tax passed, it wouldn’t be half ass enforced like every other crime rich people do.

Well yes I wasn’t eliminating them, I was noting the 15% of them. you’ve got selfish people who are really rich that benefit from the tax cuts… and you’ve got morons who will get a lot worse off.

Will we see a GOP fracture, or a new post-religious right?

No there will never be a significant post-religious right. There overall views aren’t popular, without being able to turn to homophobia, transphobia, abortion, there numbers would be under 15%. Only borderline issue I can think of that isn’t highly dependent on religion is guns.

I do wonder if the reverse is as plausible though… psychologically people tend to view the president as a god and congress as nothing. Hence the strategy worked amazingly in turning people against the democratic party in the obama era. I do wonder if it will work the other way around though.

You ask me this in 2022, I’m here for AOC 100%, In just sour on how my party treated Kamala. I don’t trust them to do AOC justice in a campaign after that.

I think with Kamela it’s a lot more complicated there though. She basically had the drawbacks of both being a newcomer and an incumbent at the same time.

https://newrepublic.com/post/202064/donald-trump-pete-hegseth-tie-your-mom

https://newrepublic.com/post/202021/karoline-leavitt-attacks-reporter-your-mom-comeback

Unintentionally accurate.

in fairness, at trump we already know all the options are ridiculous. I mean after the entire whitehouse pubic staff co-ordinated to answer all questions from reporters with “your mom”, when the whole administrations strategy for appearing before congress is burn books of personal attacks to deflect questions.

Well mainly what I’m meaning is of the suspicion side. Yes the fact that you can’t have an election while bombs are dropping on your soil is logical, But there’s an additional caveat there, The implication is that a leader could start a war. IE if a country attacks it’s neighbor, then declares the they can’t have elections because their neighbor may be dropping retalitory strikes. You’d conclude maybe the leadership started the war just to avoid elections.

and whether it works that way or not, he seems really to miss the idea of to my knowledge of the “they were invaded” an enemy is specifically attacking them on their soil.

Even if we 100% give the anti ukrain group on here the full benefit of the doubt, say they are all nazi’s etc… there’s no form of the story that implies they were going to attack russia.

They can, they just don’t want to start from scratch, they had brand deals here, and their brands don’t care as much as them over there.

Pretty much what 90% of this is… “they had a life, job and everything in the united states, they gave everything up and moved to another country, and pikachu face, starting from scratch isn’t easy.”

May he be as effective for her as Liz Cheny was for Harris.

Not really, this administration doesn’t have any problem asking for resignations and firing people, as long as they aren’t white men.

Edit: my bad in thinking about it… Patel’s still there so… perhaps the white isn’t quite needed for immunity.

The left need to understand Israel has been a majority rightwing country for over 25 years now.

It’s kind of the same view as billionares corporations etc… “yes we know they are giving far more to our opponents than us… but do you want them to give ALL of it to them instead”.

This election specifically Democrats are hopeful they’d get votes from a large portion of traditionally Republican voters so they are pushing a bit on Trans to please Republicans but not too much that they lose their Democrat voters

But at the end of the day it doesn’t matter. It’s what they do on all of the “controversial issues” since the dawn of time. Biden and Obama both ramped up deportations and poured more into the border than anyone before them. What did it get them… all republican voters still believe they had “open borders”.

Translation: Isreal will probably strike LA and blame Iran.

Is it 2016 again? I think at this point “disbelief” is reserved for the president answering the question he was asked, truthfully. This here is his normal behavior that we’ve been living with for 10 years.

Elon Musk hacked the vote with Starlink.

That’s the one part that doesn’t really fit. That’s like if I accuse someone of breaking down a wooden door with an EMP. The premise that musk found a way to rig the machines sounds very viable. Satilites don’t unless say the voting machines used starlink to send their talleys.

What pisses me off the most, is that fact they claim the left are the deranged ones. Jesus Christ, these people need help.

But… the sea shells! I don’t know how trump can sleep at night after seeing that picture.

No one is really focused on the Nobel prizes at this point

Not no one… I can name one person who’s far more concerned with that then something like “affordability”.