Asking my TikTok nephew for a loan to cover rent this month and I have to listen to him rap at me for ten minutes before handing over the cash in crypto.
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1·45 minutes agoBiden came into office in 2021 with the promise to root out corruption. After four years, he’d dramatically inflated the incomes of Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, turned his back on Donald Trump, laundered billions to his friends at AIPAC, and spent two years trying to force the sale of US branch of TikTok to Steven Mnuchin.
With liberals like that, who can really be surprised when the nation swings conservative again? Biden effectively self-financed his party’s defeat.
apathy and not voting, which is exactly what Republicans want
Between 2014 and 2024, Republicans became enthusiastic advocates for higher voter turnout. Trump’s wins in 2016 and 2024 came through record numbers of Republican voters turning out in both the primary and general elections. Republicans have maintained control of Texas, Ohio, and Florida and tightly contested states like North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, and Pennsylvania by juicing their base voter participation.
The doggedly myth that Republicans only win when turnout is low was flatly disproven nearly a decade ago. Movement Conservatives have been more successful at turning out new voters in swing states than their Conservative Democrat peers, which is precisely why so many purple-ish states have swung red since the end of the Obama Era.
Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from?
The Ivy League mostly, with honorable mention to Stanford, MIT, and the bigger state Universities.
But also, they tend to come from the nation’s wealthiest families, or as personal friends and social relations of these ultra-wealthy elites.
they are elected by American citizens
We had a 44 year run during which a Bush or a Clinton was a leading contender for President (1976 - 2020). What do you do when your options are so limited? Hell, guys like Trump and Biden are the outliers.
Get down to the state and local levels, and you’ll see much the same. Perennial incumbents from entrenched social circles cement themselves into power and promote their cronies to surrounding offices. Down in Texas, you can point to the tight-knit social circle of former Bush-Era cronies running the state as their own private fief. Opponents are subject to a litany of subversive tactics, ranging from vigilante harassment to criminal prosecution. Voting participation is deliberately suppressed through both legal and illegal means. And misinformation runs rampant in a press owned and operated by outspoken fascists.
To say people are just picking its leadership on perceived merits is plainly false.
You elected an imbecile, twice.
Idk what you’re talking about. I voted for Joe Biden.
Stop blaming voters
Now see here. I know exactly why Donald Trump is President and it’s because TikTok told my snot-nosed nephew to say “Free Palestine” during Thanksgiving.
It’s them who did the most work turning the US fash
Which Russian backed the Nixon presidential campaign?
I would rather like some examples for AOC and Mamdani.
Sorry AOC, but voters agree: Majority think Dems have gone crazy
I would love to see even one example of Musk, Thiel or Altman getting even close to the same treatment.
Elon Musk Biographer Details Why He Thinks Billionaire Is ‘Going Mad’
It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It
Chaos and lies: Why Sam Altman was booted from OpenAI, according to new testimony
In fairness, America is an absolute wellspring of global fascism. Arguably our most profitable export.
I’ve been hearing about Trump’s deteriorating mental state since the Obama Administration. As far as I’m aware, his brain is just the Shepherd Tone played above the event horizon of a black hole.
Incidentally, I’ve been hearing about Vladimir Putin’s declining mental health. And Xi Jinping’s. And Kim Jung Un’s. And Nicholas Maduro’s. And Mitch McConnell’s. And Chuck Schumer’s. And Joe Biden’s and Hillary Clinton’s. And Keir Starmer’s. And Manuel Macron’s. Elon Musk’s. Peter Thiel’s. Sam Altman’s. Masayoshi Son’s. Everyone from MTG to AOC to 34 year old Mayor Elect Zohran Mamdani get this treatment from time to time. Really, anyone the corporate media doesn’t like on a given day is perhaps hours away from a full aneurysm.
Why do people take these headlines seriously?
It doesn’t. Politico, as usual, is publishing bullshit
It is unclear how such a proposal would work, and Sherrill’s transition team declined to elaborate.
In fairness, we haven’t actually issued a Declaration of War since WW2. Everything since has been a policing action authorized under the bi-annual NDAA
It’s the Free Square
Good thing Mexico has those blue hedgehogs
2·5 days agoChinese/Russian which are obvious no
Say what you will about the MiG, they’re cheap.
Is this a contest to crash the most aircraft?
Because my man, the GOAT, John “New Plane” McCain would like to have a word.
It’s so weird to see guys like the Mercers and the Adelsons put up hundreds of millions of dollars in support of Trump. FFS, the Qatars donated more money via the Kushner back door. Nobody seems to give a shit. It’s always Putin, Putin, Putin. Like, the entire domestic O&G industry is backing this guy, but nobody seems to give a shit about Exxon or Chevron or Energy Transfer LP.
My Brother In Christ, please at least pretend to learn about the Vietnam War, the Chilean Coup, or the 1971 campaign to conduct a nationwide pogrom against brown voters and liberal organizers under the guise of the Drug War.
Nixon isn’t a drop in the ocean, he’s the mushroom cloud in the distance. You’re only now feeling the shockwave and the radioactive burn.