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You’re in some fantasy world. Don Lemon is not anti white.

He just needs a TikTok account.

Yes, you’re projecting. A therapist could help you. A media literacy course could help you, also.

You’re awfully sensitive. Maybe it’s guilt. Have you tried therapy?

That makes no sense. You’re arguing for fascist corporatism and all of the harm. And all you have is black lady bad?

Well, congratulations. You’re strengthening the fascist corporatism. You’re getting exactly what you and millions of others want. If you don’t want that, your literal only hope are Democrats.

Not necessarily, but there needs to be government intervention. C-suite wages rise all the time faster than inflation.

Thanks for the tedium. My statement is still true when considering item to item. A Big Mac is only going down if the person at McDonald’s with final price approval decides they’ll make more profit by lowering it. How propaganda works.

To help a bit because it’s not immediate, when we had that spike in gas prices under W, all of the other things we buy that required transportation also went up. After the price of gas went back down, the prices of meat, eggs, milk, and cereal did not go back down. Once the “market”* perceives that people will pay a higher price for something and profits go up, then that becomes the new more correct price. People don’t really understand capitalism. Adam Smith was warning that the only entity that could restrain the worst impulses of capitalism was the state. Dickens did a lifetime of work explaining to people that the misery around them everyday was the result of those excesses. And a bunch of working class people in the US just voted for a more Dickensian union. For the pseudo intellectuals and anti intellectuals out there, that’s you, too. Your prices will never go down. There’s too much transfer of wealth from our hands to a small number of billionaires’ hands, and Trump was selected to ensure this continues. Harris had a couple ideas to try to force the “market” prices back down, but y’all chose the higher prices. *The “market” doesn’t “set” prices. People do. Someone at McDonald’s decides how much a Quarter Pounder costs. Someone at Kellogg’s decides how much Frosted Flakes will cost. The prices don’t need to go up, even with input changes. That’s all a decision to be made by people, not some invisible nonexistent hand. Like, insulin prices haven’t needed to skyrocket, same for EpiPens. Those prices went up because some shitty people decided they could make more profit. Finally under Biden, some of those drug prices were brought down, because, again, Adam Smith told us only the State could restrain capitalism, but that’s also going away. Leopards are going to feast on a bunch of Republican diabetics’ faces. And also innocent people, some of them children with type 1 diabetes will die. Hope the Trumpers are happy because y’all are going to have done that, too. I’ll only grieve one group.

It won’t be sustained by design. It was only that high because Biden has been the most worker friendly President in 50 years. That experiment is over. Trump is against any labor protection and advocates for breaking unions, as does his boytoy Elon. Without labor organization, wage growth will go way down. Last time, Trump left the NLRB unstaffed and nonfunctional. We’d be very lucky this time for mere neglect. Republicans control everything, and they’ve been trying to get rid of labor power altogether since Reagan. Leopards are going to feast. Hell, Leopards are already feasting as companies prepare for the tariffs Trump voters want, and workers are losing jobs or money. The rest of us should be expecting drastically higher prices as Trumpflation kicks off.

Nanana is upset at attempts to remove misinformation and disinformation because without those, there’s no way for a right winger to maintain a semi-coherent world view.

Add also, the Fifth Circuit is notoriously cray-cray. But also, SCOTUS is not particularly rational. Especially now.

I’m not protesting in the streets. That freedom we know is lost. We had our chance to save the fools and they insisted on not being saved. I’m moving to solidifying the escape plans. I expect we’ll lose marriage federally in the first couple months, but they’ll probably be tied up with deporting millions of people for the first year or two. Probably have that long before we’re all codified as felons. Maybe faster if SCOTUS hears anything that lets them overturn Lawrence. But in a couple years, I’m thinking Mexico or Costa Rica look nice.

We used to have rational gun restrictions. The radicals on the SCOTUS ended that in the 90s after what, two centuries of restrictions. At least they’re still allowing restrictions on bombs, artillery, nukes, missiles. Not that any of that could rationally be blocked if you really believed the originalist bull. Instead it’s just about manipulating the rubes. I understand I’m less patient with the stupid and evil party than others. It’s just because I grew up with these people. Some of them wanted to disinvite me from my grandmother’s memorial, and some refused to bring children because the gay cousin might corrupt them. Largely, they’re useless sacks of racist crap who are upset they can’t drop the n word (or other ethnic slurs) in public conversation. The worst buy into white nationalism. The best are merely propagandized by horseshit right wing media and don’t have the brain and willpower to reason past the propaganda techniques. They say dumb things like, “The lamestream media just lies about Him.” It’s sad how we have to keep trying to save them for the dystopia they’re rushing us toward while imagining that when Medicare goes away it won’t mean for them. But here we are, and the saddest LCRs keep pretending they won’t be cut off like the rest of us.

3/4 of states need to ratify.