In his narcissism he might actually believe that “fake unemployed people are making the job numbers worse”.

This would be on par for the guy who wanted to “Stop the Count” and figured you don’t have a pandemic if you don’t test.

The electorate on both sides have definitely soured on Israel, organically. I only expect the evangelicals to stay the same. AIPAC is having to reach deep into its war chest to buy elections and increasingly obfuscate its contributions through shell PACs now.

The government has been trying this weird half-assed interventionism since actual interventionism is such a hard sell post-Iraq and Afghanistan. Some bombing here, an attempt to arm rebel groups there… and if it fails, that’s for the locals to clean up. I’d argue this goes back to Obama and Trump continued it, but in a room temp IQ way that only Trump can manage.

Murican here. I think a lot of those are bot farms or nation-state actors atp. We need breaks from our own politics too.

~100% of these people talking shit online about “not doing enough” would not do shit were they in a similar situation and probably don’t do shit anyway as far as civic participation.

it almost seems like someone in the Madison County, NC sheriff’s office is just sitting on their ass keeping serious tabs on a short list of people living in other places.

Probably exes and/or children as Flock abusers keep getting in trouble for.

Idk about that specific one but people have turned other Nokia models into cyberdecks. Might be worth checking out.

Massie was likely primaried for his stance on Israel. AIPAC was gloating about getting rid of him and they spent 30M to do it making it the most expensive primary in history.

She wanted a Senate run and Trump wouldn’t endorse her. Her moves since that and the Epstein stuff are out of spite for him and she’s coordinating with other Republicans as to not hurt their cause as a whole and burn bridges. She’s not gone yet unfortunately.

We learned about censorship efforts in the UK, EU, Australia and Canada, bud. None of us had a conniption over it.

We will still have centralized/defederated platforms that won’t comply, mesh networks and protocols like i2p but I can absolutely understand wanting out.

Since you mentioned shills and bots, I’ve been wondering if some of the types always shitting on voting were but figured this place was too small to be botted.

Their approval rating has been underwater for months, even in that cursed state.

He made gains with Hispanics then proceeded to sic ICE on them. Now many are conservative as hell and have their own issues with colorism and racism, but I am curious to see how this plays out in 2028.

The midterms have the potential to change things hence why Republicans moved to gerrymander the entire South. Trump could be a lame duck the rest of his term while the House launches investigations. Ted Cruz was crying about that. A lot of the stupid shit Trump does gets overturned even with him owning all three branches but almost none of it makes the headlines. Because his loses aren’t salacious unlike his flagrant violations, you don’t hear about them so you come away thinking he does whatever he wants.

Half of Congress is bought off by AIPAC who wants this war. If Trump were getting his ass handed to him this badly in Somalia, we’d be out by now.

Hegseth actually comes off as too stupid to be a grifter. I think he is a true believer.

These are the same people who did the Trayvon Martini and I can’t breathe trends.

Gotta keep that overhead low to return value to shareholders. They also use prison labor.

the illusion that the thought comes from within society organically.

Hmm so I both agree and disagree with you here. Hustle culture arises from societal things here such as hyperindividualism, Puritan work ethic and toxic masculinity that grifters package and push (where I agree with you). But it’s metastasizing from us to you all so it seems alien.

Are you seriously suggesting companies live and die by the free market?? Those poor failing companies need taxpayer bailouts.