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We'll just end up with more immigrants coming over for those jobs. Boy, won't that go over well..... (assuming those don't just stay away from this shitshow in the first place...)

This feels like a good time to remind MD of this gem. Tell the joke again about how you don't side with animal killers.

The Republican way. Forced to learn religion while they take away all free lunch plans. Kinda incredible, really, and almost makes me want to know the mental gymnastics involved for anyone to be on board with both of those plans.

I don't disagree. But, consider They wouldn't have to change any of the merch branding. Also, I just remain unconvinced that at least some of the cult wouldn't happily transition to following an offspring if they made even a passing attempt to imitate the attitude and atmosphere. A Trump is a Trump, surely some will follow that piper all the way to hell.

I mean.. he's got some of his kids already in that circle. Wouldn't put it past one of them taking the reigns. It'll last about as long as it takes for everyone to realize they don't have any of the cult charisma to keep the train rolling.

Parents are starting to die off and they're realizing they really don't have it as well off as they expected, and, yeah, going full boomer to get those "good old days" benefits. Possibly also a dash of susceptible to covid misinformation which just set them down all the wrong holes. Maybe a sprinkle of feeling like they know better than anyone younger than them. Just kinda spitballing, no real context or anything to back those up.

Sorta a little bit falls back on what I was expecting to see once Biden was elected. Somebody needs to step tf up. A nobody is going to struggle to get attention. Anyone with any sort of bad rap attached to them is almost certainly going to fail. Somebody needs to be putting themselves in front of cameras and into news to get name recognition started, get people aware of doing good (or at least bare minimum), so when nomination time comes, we're not all looking around asking "Who else is there?" or "Who even are you?" It sucks, and I really hate that it's turning out that way, it feels like taking "politician" a step behind a career (which I already hated) and turning it into a whole identity. But, it's been pretty clear for a while that a broad swathe of voters do not vote on policy, and clearly aren't aware of that things proposed in their own best interest. They're just voting on brand recognition. And Republicans have a huge lead on that front. Any chump on the street can likely name at least half a dozen potential future candidates on the right, but, if you ask them who on the left seems poised to throw their hat in the ring?

This is small comfort when it means they don't have to learn anything from their losses, they can just coast on waiting until shit's fucked and expecting to win afterwards. It's at the core of why so many of the left are disillusioned with their own party. They get in on a message of actually pushing the fight, and when words fail to become action, they lose that support and are rightly kicked out on their asses. But the party fails to see that part coming, doesn't have anyone in place to step in, so they lose to a Republican by simple virtue of supporters simply having no one to vote for. The party expects everyone to vote blue no matter what. But, if that blue ain't blueing, well.. sure, they're likely not voting red.. but they're more likely to not vote at all, or gamble on a long shot, rather than support a party of failed promises. Kinda one of the key differences in party voters. One side has turned into a cult that will vote in alignment no matter what, contrasted with a party that can't follow through and doesn't have a cult following, losing support when they fail to deliver. And they fail to deliver a lot, either by over promising, inaction, or just plain complacency. A campaign of "Did you learn your lesson?" is exactly what leads us to this point.

And thus Dems get an easy win and learn absolutely nothing, and the cycle repeats.

I'd maybe also add a dash of being a pariah anywhere else with that behavior, so they come here where they can take a shit on the floor with zero consequences.

With lyrics stuck in my head, such as: LET IT BURN, I SAY Rend it all to ash and dust For as fools we are as fuel It is our nature to combust

I foresee an AOC-like ticket performing even worse than this.

Stupidity got us into this mess, why shouldn't it get us out?

inb4 they just move more right to appeal to what works.

The cynic in me wonders how anyone (sane) would even want to be president after this. It doesn't even matter how good a candidate you might be if people will actively vote to cram their dicks in a shredder. But hey. Guess we probably won't have to worry about that problem for a while now.

It's almost like waiting for America's pregnancy test.. Is it gonna be a democracy? Or a dictatorship? Maury, what are the results???? Either way, gonna be a helluva gender reveal party....

Ok... so which monster are we voting for..?

I have no context here, but, possibly because "giveaway" is, like, a whole-ass legal loophole to get around a lot of shit.

Welp... I saw one today. And I gotta say, the pictures don't do it justice. Cyber trucks look so much dumber up close.

When they said rabies test, I kinda expected it was because of this. That's not something they'd just do for random confiscation, I imagine. But absolutely required if infection was possible.

The fact that it did just smacks of either subterfuge or desperation. And.. I can't really wrap my head around being that desperate for a news angle. Somebody, somewhere in the great Machine, looked at this happening, and, at this point in the election cycle, determined it needed national attention? It's just... MD on a national scale. Willing to look like complete fools because somehow that owns the libs..

The biggest shame here is just how much the whole event was politicized. Which... frankly seems too suspicious. At first, it sounded exactly like a case of "my son got lost in a hot air balloon," so, imagine my surprise when I find it's been validated. Still feels like it leaves questions. Something like this doesn't just blow up. Did they snitch on themselves to spin up some attention? Was snitch just preparing to manufacture some outrage? A long term plan? I mean, honestly, if this were politically flipped, there'd be a hundred "false flag" accusations by now. Convenient how quickly they'll believe something if they think it benefits them.

...You side with the people that will cram a roadkill bear into their car, leave it for the evening, and dump it in central park. Or cut the head off a whale. Get all the fuckin way out of here with this bullshit.

Ehhhhh. Is she really getting anyone worked up, though? Mostly nobody's even responding to the content, it's just, as you say, pure astonishment that she's willing to look that stupid. She knows just as well as anyone else here that none of us are buying it, and yet.. she posts it anyway. And I, for one, refuse to believe that's what passes for trolling around here now. Not when we've had some absolute legends in the day..