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  • While it would be nice if a significant portion of Republicans could open their fucking eyes and acquaint themselves with reality, the article is focusing on the independents who are far more likely to switch sides. One of the key factors in the last election was the large number of low information voters who voted for Trump because they wanted a change, driven almost entirely by being upset about the economy and inflation. Their economic illiteracy and confident ignorance was and is infuriating, but that feelings and vibes approach to voting is also a double edged sword. The more harm Trump inflicts on people through his idiotic trade wars and cuts to programs people need, the more they will blame him. That they will be right to blame him is just a happy coincidence.

    Also, we are just two months in. We still have a long road ahead of us, and things are almost certainly going to get a lot worse.

  • MAGA Pol Behind ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ Bill Caught in Teen Sex Sting

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  • The MAGA platform is inherently hateful, bigoted, selfish and shortsighted. It is lead by greedy amoral narcissists and sociopaths and preaches contempt for law, ethics and personal integrity. All issues are a matter of us vs them, so when one of us does something that gets called out by them, the problem is with them calling one of us out.

    Anyone who is still a MAGA supporter has already excused the inexcusable more times than they can count. Those with a moral compass left a long time ago. Sure, there will be people who barely pay attention and who are genuinely ignorant of what the party they support is actually doing. But those people aren't the ones running for office or actively participating in political organizations.

  • Nice argument!

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  • I probably would have gone with a navy seal copypasta.

  • Maps: Where Trump Voter Jobs Will Be Hit by Tariffs

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  • Sure, rural areas with fewer employers and less diverse economies will have trouble adapting, but at least all the programs that help people through hard times are getting defunded and shut down.

  • Why, oh why?!?

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  • We were so close a few years ago when the senate passed a bill with unanimous consent, only for the house to say fuck you and refuse to even consider it (can't have anything useful getting done).

  • New Key West Tourism Ad

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  • Florida gets destroyed, and within a few years the Federation is founded and humanity enters a utopian era. Sounds about right.

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  • A work requirement would be particularly perverse. It just further normalizes employers paying shit wages and providing little or no benefits, with programs like medicaid and snap making up the difference. It's an indirect subsidy that only makes it easier to keep wages low.

    Maybe we should do the opposite and tax businesses that pay low enough wages for their employees to qualify for assistance. Although, we'd probably get more results by instituting an income inequality tax that increases based on the difference in total compensation between the highest and lowest paid employees. Make it so that the only way executives can increase their own pay is by paying their employees well too.

  • Trump short-circuits when asked if U.S. policy is aligning with Russia

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  • In response, Trump rattled off a list of everything that “would have never happened” if he’d won the presidential election four years ago.

    Trump’s nonanswer, which veered further and further off-topic, included the October 7 massacre, “Israel,” inflation, the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan, and China possessing the Bagram Air Base (the Taliban has denied that China controls the former U.S. base). Finally, he circled back to Ukraine—but only to complain, not to actually answer the question.

    Obviously he was never going to withdraw troops from Afghanistan. Why would he? He's only the one who negotiated the withdrawal.

  • Trump admits prices are going up even more

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  • “To the Great Farmers of the United States: Get ready to start making a lot of agricultural product to be sold INSIDE of the United States. Tariffs will go on external product on April 2nd,” Trump wrote.

    “Have fun!” he added.

    Doesn't sound like an admission to me. Sounds like he's just shifting the burden of responsibility to farmers and acted like this was doing them a favor.

  • Trump loses it after former adviser calls him out on Putin stance

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  • That's right Donny, everyone who makes you mad is weak. Everyone who provokes you into screaming ranting like a maniac on social media is a loser. They're all pathetic and your compulsive need to lash out at critics is proof that you are tough and smart and better than all of them.

  • They can be magnificent, but not always.

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  • Exactly, TNG made them one dimensional and unintentionally laughable. DS9 took that foundation and let their civilization be a joke, while still allowing characters to be properly fleshed out.

    I would have personally preferred a more grounded and nuanced society for them, but that's true of a lot of Star Trek's world building. They've always had a preference for making everything a planet of hats.

  • Bernie Sanders headed to Wisconsin to campaign in districts held by Republicans

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  • Also funny how they (politicians) don't consider holding political office to be honest work.

  • Rubio melts down on air over accusation U.S. is ‘placating Putin’

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  • Compare the way he talks about Putin with the way he talks about Zelenskyy.

    With Putin, we have to see what he wants, we have to try to work with him and understand his position, we can't do anything that might make him uncomfortable so he doesn't decide he doesn't want to talk to us, and his broken agreements are in the past while we need to be moving forward.

    On the other hand, he repeatedly states that they've "explained this" to Ukraine, that we can't discuss what they want or what their concerns are, we need to focus on getting peace first, and Zelenskyy is at fault because was disrespectful which apparently we can't ignore for the sake of peace the way we can ignore a history of Putin violating peace deals.

    If they actually meant what they are saying and this was all about diplomacy and achieving peace, they wouldn't be picking a fight with Ukraine, they wouldn't be publicly undermining them and trying to coerce them, and they wouldn't be refusing to acknowledge any of their concerns. These motherfuckers think that it's a good look for them to be throwing a tantrum about the way Zelenskyy dresses and getting pissy about him not being thankful enough for the way they are so generously pursuing a peace that carves up Ukraine and comes without security of any kind. That's the way they want to spin this. Because apparently they think acting like thrid grade bullies who try to pick on the smaller kids is admirable, that people will see it and think they look smart and tough.

    The only thing I even find remotely believable in this interview is Rubio's mantra of "I don't understand." Just in general I think it's pretty clear that there's a hell of a lot he doesn't understand. Things like human decency, geopolitics, basic negotiation tactics, and parables about riding tigers and giving rides to scorpions. But I think he probably does understand that his position is pure bullshit and that his only job here is to try and tow the line while defending the indefensible. That's why he got so panicked when a tweet from a fellow republican came up, because his strategy was to avoid details and try to frame the backlash as partisan politics, so he can't really respond to Republican criticism.

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    Trump’s Oval Office thrashing of Zelenskyy shows limits of Western allies’ ability to sway US leader

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  • Honestly, it's for the best that they made such a spectacle of this. They could have been far more subtle and insidious with their betrayal of Ukraine and Europe. They could have drawn things out and let other leaders continue to court US support. They could have feigned being interested in compromise in order to divide allies between those who see through the bullshit and those who don't.

    Instead, they alienated everyone at once and seem to be galvanizing our allies to unite without us. They were always going to stab Ukraine in the back and side with Russia, but at least they chose to do it in a stupid and ineffectual way.

  • Trump thinks he humiliated Zelensky. He really humiliated the United States

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  • "If I'd been president they wouldn't have dared to attack us!"

  • MAGA Melts Down Over ‘Complete Disappointment’ Epstein Docs Release

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  • You could release a video of him fucking an entire kindergarten and his core followers would still support him.

  • ‘Taking a Vacation in Mexico???’ Chris Hayes Can’t Believe Official DOGE Head Is Out of the Country Right After Starting New Job

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  • If I was the one being set up to be legally responsible for this clusterfuck, I'd want to be out of the country too.

  • NASA Astronaut Taunts Elon Musk for Cowardice

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  • I know we aren't lucky enough for this to happen, but I would really savor watching Musk go the way of the OceanGate douchebag.

  • Economic Blackout: What to know about the February 28 boycott taking off on social media

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  • I suspect that it will also just shift purchases to the days before and after.

    It's a start, but I think it would be more effective if we went through some or all of March spending only the bare minimum on necessities, and only at small local businesses to the extent possible. The corporate world lives and dies by quarterly reports, so we'll get the most bang for our boycott buck by targeting those numbers specifically.