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Nanana rather naively asserts that suddenly inflation happened and gave right wing assholes motivation, but there was no inflationary period in 2015, and my family were largely already held captive. The bigger divide was much earlier with the end of the Fairness Doctrine and the rise of right wing hate radio. The family members who had disposable time at work to listen to that crap were the first radicalized. I was first called the enemy of America in Clinton’s first term by a relative who never bothered joining the military, and it’s been all downhill. There’s also been mention of virtual vs physical labor, but that’s just virtue signaling. The difference is between people who paid attention in media literacy classes and those who didn’t. Trump still lays propaganda techniques in a string, and they are readily gobbled up. Again, the Republican politicians hate labor. My family members are voting to die from lack of access to healthcare and live more miserably while waiting for it to happen, and without a deprogramming plan ready to roll out nationwide, all we can hope is to save themselves from themselves again. There are no Republican policies or plans in Project 2025, the nearly identical Agenda 47, or the additional plans and statements right wing politicians have espoused that help anyone in my family at all. Prices will skyrocket, availability of products will plummet, pay will crash. And my family members are begging for it to happen. To them. The nation is probably screwed. A whole bunch of people in the officer corps in the military are now also trying to sound the alarm. My family Facebook groups are a mess. And you can’t get people to open up their eyes and objectively look at the world because they’re wrapped up in phantasms of what they want it to be. The cities aren’t burning. Portland and Seattle are pleasant. Been there. But my family members who see the pictures think they’re war-torn cratered out smoking husks like Gaza. The country is great. Better than 4 years ago. We all have toilet paper. That was just another of Trump’s myriad failures.

Trump also wants to remove trans soldiers from the military again. That means that people braver than most of the people here praising Trump, especially including Trump, will be removed from the service. And the Republicans are planning to make pornography a felony and make us all felons by existing. That includes the Log Cabin Sad Bois like y’all. The Republicans both in leadership and the voters hate y’all so much.

Hey, Trump also hates veterans, but so do the rest of the Republicans. They were never going to pass the Pact Act, and even with Jon Stewart mocking them mercilessly, a very few actually got on board to actually help veterans. And if Trump wins, they’re planning on making veterans decide between retirement pay and disability. Because Republicans hate veterans like all labor. Why keep paying after they’re retired or too broken? And that’s besides wanting to end the ACA with no replacement so we’re back to rescission and lifetime caps and pre-existing conditions. Hell, they’re also planning on ending Medicaid and Medicare because fuck everyone who can’t just pay out of pocket. Trump’s so much more than racist, and the Republican leadership are all just this evil. It’s the bottom 99% of Republican voters who are phenomenally stupid. Just amazingly dumb. Like stump, box of hair, village missing an idiot dumb. It would just be pathetic, but you morons are going to hurt innocent people who don’t deserve your incapacity.

So now that Likud is making statements that victory over Hamas means displacing all of the Palestinians for Israeli settlers, at least we can wipe away the “it’s not really genocide,” bleating. And it’s near certain that rumors last winter that Jared was promised real estate to develop in Gaza are true. Well, it’s clear what the pro quo is for Trump’s quid of turning easily manipulated right wingers into genocide loving freaks and promises of helping Netanyahu finish the job.”

How? Are you worth a quarter of a billion? no one else benefits aside from sadists.

All he could do at that last town hall was slur a bit and sway to the music.

Your literal argument is “billionaires love him?!” Hope you enjoy the constant stop and frisk treatment Trump is promising.

There was never a chain of custody for the supposed Hunter Biden laptop. Still, it’s crazy to think Hunter got that job for any reason other than who his dad is. Of course, the same is true of Ivanka, Don, Jr., and the likely dumbest person in the world Eric. Remember when Trump was saying he didn’t even know anyone in Russia and didn’t care about Russia, and then Eric bleated out like the dimmest dim son ever, “Half of our business is with Russia?” Good times. Or remember when Bill Barr lied about the Mueller Report? And how it said that Don, Jr. definitely coordinated with Russian agents, but probably couldn’t get charged with anything because he was too dumb to realize laws also applied to him, making him the grandest Affluenza case in history? Or that Trump (Unindicted co-conspirator number 1) couldn’t be indicted because blah-blah no criminal proceedings against a sitting president, but that Congress had political options he assumed they’d take because he was naive enough to believe that Republicans care about anything besides tax cuts to billionaires. No? Because you’re in a media bubble that wants law and order for poor black people, but definitely not for the rich. And you just swallow that shit like a fetishist. But I get it. Biden held inflation lower in the US than anywhere else in the world when businesses decided to make up for Covid by raising prices however high they wanted. I mean, they could put direct price controls on prices, but there was largely no supply curve reason to raise prices, and a lot of goods where prices rose were inelastic (meaning price changes don’t affect demand—usually medicines, housing, gas, stuff like that), but price controls are too easily spun as communism because conservatives are basically reprogrammable meat puppets with minimal effort in media. So vote for Trump. Become illegal by virtue of existence. Watch people die of treatable diseases because they can be dumped by insurance. Watch people die because the medicines Biden has listed to be price negotiated go back to unregulated pricing like when diabetics died because insulin was priced out of reach. It’s like conservatives can’t read or comprehend history, and it’s tribal virtue signaling to broadcast ignorance. You’re like drowning victims attacking the lifeguards. Hopefully, the rest of us will be able to save your dumb asses again.

Unless you’re worth well into 8 figures, there’s nothing ever in the Republican Party policies for you. All of the housing crisis shit built for years under Trump because there’s been nothing to even approach a policy. BBB would have helped you; the Green New Deal would have helped. There was never going to be an infrastructure week, and no healthcare plan. The GOP who get elected exist only to make the top tiny sliver richer. Prices on everything are high because the people who get to set prices want them high. Anyone not in the capitalist class, the people who actually own everything, we don’t matter, except as biological widgets who should get back to increasing shareholder value. The motherfuckers are going to return us to the chaos from before the ACA, where the second your insurance company found out you got cancer, you got canceled. They’re going to get rid of overtime. Boss wants you to work more, you work more, no extra pay. Unions gone, no more inconvenient strikes. Total abortion ban and the maternal death rates soar. The GOP doesn’t care. Felonies for being gay. They’re not being shy about telling us. But sure. Put something else first. Vote for the party of leopards eating faces. Just don’t cry when they come to eat your face.

Project 2025 changes everything with a Supreme Court that suddenly finds everything Christian Nationalists want constitutional. Next Trump Administration ends the EPA, gives us Russia style anti-gay bills, nationwide abortion bans (and fuck maternal mortality), ending all protests with bullets. Trump wants cops to harass black and brown people constantly. And Trump just announced one of the authors is in his administration—again—should it happen. I get being in a TikTok or YouTube algorithm state where you’re getting fed pro-Trump propaganda, but you got to be able to see the shit for shit.

lol. Trump will increase weapons to Israel to help Netanyahu “finish the job.” The goal is eradication of Palestinians. Israel has made attacks in the West Bank and other neighboring countries. And developers want the property in the Gaza Strip. The only thing we don’t know is what, materially, Trump gets out of it. I’m guessing land in Jared’s name. Regardless, Netanyahu wants Trump, so let Trump win if you want what Netanyahu wants.

Just curious, but where do you get your news?

JD Vance just whined about being fact checked. Trump just bailed on 60 minutes because the chicken is afraid of being fact checked and his mouth breathing followers being exposed to objective reality.

I remember a joke from a Jewish comedian in the before times: if you’re ever just going through your day to day life and forget you’re a Jew, don’t worry. Someone will be around in 5 minutes to remind you. Swap out “Jew” for “gay”, “black”, “Latino”, etc. I can’t think of anyone being honest who would think that Kamala Harris could have gone up to a “Whites Only” business in the 60s and gotten service. But there are a lot of liars.

Small town mothers are far fewer in number than city women.

I think it depends on the woman. Liz Cheney and Sarah Huckabee Sandrrs? Hate LGBTQ. Taylor Swift, Cher, Kamala Harris? No hate. it probably depends more on church membership than anything, and evangelicals are bleeding members right now.

There bipartisanship. You should be happy. A bunch of other republicans have said Trump is a toxic mess. So more bipartisanship.

There’s no inappropriate health question if you’re about to have sex, and especially if it’s bareback.

Transcending politics is great on the maybe two remaining issues with common ground. One party though is now pro-starvation, pro-children losing limbs in dangerous work environments, pro-mercury, pro-killing disabled people, anti-birth control, pro-forced birth, which includes being pro-maternal mortality and pro-infant mortality, pro-forced adherence to extremely conservative Biblical readings on everyone regardless of their religion, pro-senior poverty and misery. How do you transcend that? “Well , maybe if you only starve most of the children?” “Well, maybe if you’re only killing the obvious gays.” The Republican plan is to make pornography illegal (and this site). Then to categorize being identifiable as gay or trans as public pornography, like Russia’s anti-gay “propaganda” laws. The Republicans started cozying up to Putin over how he mistreats gay people before trump (low-t trump) came on the stage. For decades the Democrats faithfully reached to the center, so the Republicans moved the center further right. But, yeah. You’re the intelligent, principled one here. You’re like my idiot brother who proclaims how smart and educated on issues because he does his own rEsEaRcH, and he’s come to the obviously smart conclusions that Republicans are better for unions. Despite talking to my anti-union aunt and cousin who vote Republican because they’re anti-union. It would just be harmless entertainment if it weren’t for the misery and death conservative policies always lead to.

You get to live without being made a felon by being gay.

Who lied to you and told you this was causing McDonald's and Kroger and every other corporation in the US to arbitrarily raise their prices just because they could?

Nanana, you choose to ignore what's actually causing inflation because it doesn't suit the power structures you wish to maintain. You dismiss economic theory rooted in reality in favor of Mises and Hayek's fantasies because they don't suit the power structures you wish to maintain. Modern Monetary Theory stands up to evidence better than Austrian school economists.

Government always benefits whoever has the most money the most. Definitely since Reagan. Every other stakeholder has been pushed aside. Inflation is mostly because capitalism is working exactly as defined. Government taxing the poor and middle class isn't the problem. Inflation has been really low for the last couple decades, especially since the last time the wealthy blew up the economy in 2008. The problem the poor and middle class have is that all the gains for productivity are going to the top half of one percent, and the top hundredth of one percent even more. Someone is feeding you very bad information. If you want to start with just hard financial data, start with Pikkety's work. But you can also watch Robert Reich's youtube series that basically follows his freshman class.

I’m sorry you have no grasp of economics. I’ve already got a friend from high school a bunch of us are trying to yank out of stupid right wing rabbit holes, but we can start with how our taxation system is designed to transfer wealth from the bottom to a very small subset of people at the top. Stupid Republicans whine about how we’re feeding children instead of making them crawl around fixing machinery in meat packing plants. Evil Republicans are collecting the money the rest of us including the stupid Republicans put in by government subsidies at a faster rate than ever before thanks to the last round of tax cuts pushed through by the Republicans in Congress. Also, the laughability of pretending self sustainability is possible in the modern era is flat out alt-right nonsense. For starters, I guarantee you didn’t build the device you’re using to access this forum yourself. I used to pack shotgun shells with my dad and uncle growing up, but no one smelts and forms their own guns and ammunition after mining the raw materials. We distribute specialized tasks out. Hell, even Grizzly Adams got the occasional package. It’s not like life can be a live action version of Valheim. Alt-righters would just be silly if they weren’t so hellbent on creating a utopia for the top 0.1% at the expense of the rest of us, including themselves . Gay alt-righters are sillier, since we all know we’re one of the social outgroups getting scapegoated.

People who don’t pay income taxes make too little to hit the minimum threshold. They still pay sales taxes and any number of fees. If they’re renting, they’re paying their landlords’ property taxes. Any direct payments to them have immediate positive economic impact. Everyone knows this. Granted there are always sycophants willing to sit around waiting for a trickle down that’s never, ever going to happen. We’ve been running this stupid economic experiment for 40 years now. It’s a failure.