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No choice? Nah, that’s s fucking cop out. Democrats talk a big game about opposing Trump, but when the chips are down they vote for garbage legislation like this or vote for the budget, etc. We either hold them accountable for any support whatsoever that they provide to this regime or we let go of the fantasy that Democrats give a shit about being any thing other than a token speed bump to fascism.

The fact that Republicans want to take away peoples’ ability to vote isn’t really news, but the fact that any Democrats supported it is.

Because the left sees the left/right divide as fundamentally being about opposition to/support for capitalism, with the former being the defining feature of leftism and the latter of liberalism (which, from the international perspective, includes conservatives.) Anyone who isn’t opposed to capitalism - like ‘left-wing’ parties that advocate for reforming or regulating capitalism instead of replacing it - are not leftist. In fact, they often act as a pressure valve for anti-capitalist sentiment within society that channels people who might otherwise oppose it into less-radical reformist parties instead of moving on to find true anti-capitalist parties as they might otherwise have. Not to mention there’s a pretty well-established historical trend of ‘left-wing’ parties appeasing or even outright enabling fascism when things get bad in capitalist economies, so it’s hard to argue that they’re even nominally left-leaning.

The US democratic party is, by the international standard (the US defines things a bit differently), a centrist party at best, and honestly probably more like center-right.

I don’t doubt that it’s possible, but it would cost $7,000 or some shit.

What we have seen before are small, narrowly focused tariffs. This is about as not- that as it’s possible to be and still be tariffs. So if Trump is somehow right the response will be to question everything we know about economics because we are now living in an alternate time line where taking a hammer to a complex issue that needs a scalpel will have somehow worked for literally the first time in human history. But, ya know, ask silly questions, get silly answers.

Because he said that he wouldn’t be in order to establish that he was in control, so when it comes out that he’s not (which we all knew anyway) he looks weak and stupid. So he’s issuing excuses, only he’s a moron so the excuses make him look even less in control. But it’s okay, he’ll have nappy time in 5 minutes and forget about this and the American media will conveniently forget along with him.

Yeah, but ‘lying liar lies some more’ is not much of a headline, either. :P This really souldn’t be surprising media organizations anymore.

I hope this is not news to anyone, but Trump does not give a fuck about conflicts of interest as was made abundantly clear by his first term. What he cares about is looking good; specifically in making sure that everyone remembers he is king dick of the universe and Musk is subordinate.

• He said he wouldn’t include Musk in the briefing to establish that impression.
• Obviously he was lying and was going to include him anyway; oligarchs don’t spend that kind of money without making sure they’re getting value for it.
• Now he’s making excuses for having done what he always intended to do so he can maintain the illusion that he is in control.
• But also he’s a moron, so this excuse makes it look like he’s not keeping his house in order, and any remotely media-literate adult can see through this shit clear as day.

But he had a journalist’s number in his phone, so he was talking to him before this. What’s more likely: he accidentally saved it under someone else’s name and then never called them to find out it was the wrong person, or he put it under another name to hide the fact that he was talking to a journalist? I’m putting my money on door #2.

I am extremely left-wing, so probably skew the average all by myself. :P

I think most people feel this way, right? Like you are left-leaning if you like the policies in left-wing platforms put forth by left-wing parties, so you vote for the left-wing candidates who advocate for them. Likewise, candidates are left-wing because they are members of such parties and advocate for such policies. So saying ‘I only vote for people on the basis of their policies and voting record’ is like saying ‘I only drink water when it’s wet’—technically true, but it misses the point that you chose it because it was wet.

This… is sadly not a surprise. That dude has given me the creeps for a long time.

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Specifically on this subject he hasn’t said anything until this. So not breaking silence in general, just in this narrow area.

Press the pad of your thumb and the end of your middle finger together with some force. It helps to offset the finger to the left side of the thumb (looking down at the thumb). Hold your thumb still, and try to pull the tip of your middle finger down to your palm, until it overcomes friction and snaps against your palm at the base of your thumb.

That… really depends on your politics. It could range from ‘There are bad people who want to hurt us’ to ‘we are bad people who hurt people and sometimes they decide to try to hurt us back.’

Nuuu, you can’t sabotage the midterms yet, Cruz isn’t running for election again until 2030. It’s the only way us Texas lefties are ever getting rid of him.

Because this is what their base wants. This is how they win elections in the future, by delivering on these promises to their base.

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