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  1. I do not disagree with this. War department is far more accurate. I mean I don’t like the connection it makes to MAGA because we used to have an actual War Department and this really is just a harkening back to those times…but again, it’s also more honest. Trump does a lot of shit things, and this is a shit thing in the big picture, but among all his shit things, this thing is the least shit.
  2. Oh great here come the sissy apologists with their effeminate excuses: ”Only Hamas militants are starving, they’re lying about it, Hamas caused the famine, they’re lying about it, Hamas prevented aid from coming in, but the IDF had to prevent it because they were trying to smuggle in weapons, but we were only targeting Hamas with the famine but they used civilians as human shields.” They’re about to sing all their greatest hits and once again will demand us to love them and will accuse us of being antisemitic if we hate this situation and the US/Israeli policy.
  3. lol you think tourists are still coming to the United States
  4. You spelled Richard Mellon Scaife wrong
  5. I doubt it. I mean I’m sure those dumb motherfuckers challenge each other to duels all the time but I’ve no reason to believe it’s anything other than stupid performative nonsense.
  6. You’re a fool if you believe he’s a great executive.
  7. He takes it to extreme levels, i.e. when he was interviewed by Tapper and kept insisting Obama’s DOJ was the one that cut the Epstein deal. When told it was 2008 and that Bush was still president, he was like “nuh uh it was 2009!”
  8. He’s also lying
  9. You say this as if you’ve made a compelling case up until this point, or that you even understood what I was saying previously.
  10. The criticisms are no different and it’s not like they would be if he was running for a national office. Don’t kid yourself. This lot that I referred to in that post you quoted isn’t nearly that nuanced
  11. That’s correct. They don’t dislike Trump because of his embrace of right wing politics. They hate Trump because his policies are so insane that they even hurt their bottom line. But they’d still would rather take a chance on trying to educate Trump and his idiot minions out of their more insane policy ideas than they would voting for a Bernie or a Mamdani against them. And they’re very committed to that idea, too. You could show them all the pie charts in the world that show Mandani/AOC/Bernie policies are not only better for the average American than Trump, but also the establishment Democrats. Wanna know what their response will be? If they don’t find a way to mute their opposition, what they’ll say basically amounts to “well you see, the facts may very well seem to indicate Y, but I prefer to believe X.”
  12. Most Republican voters don’t know shit about economics. They readily vote against their own interests and it’s not because “I’ll pay more if it means owning the libs.” No, it’s because they all too readily believe improbable claims from questionable sources based on insufficient information. Everything they say they believe” about economics? They don’t actually believe it, but they’ve definitely been told to believe it by people who have a skin in the game. Trickle down economics is bullshit, tariffing the shit out of everything is bullshit, the stories they tell about “military spending is what got us out of the Great Depression” is bullshit, the idea that we need to pull crumbs away from the poors in order to save the economy is bullshit, and “taxation is theft” is utter, complete and unforgivable bullshit. Bottom line, if you voted for Trump because he’s a “successful businessman,” even his record clearly shows he’s not, and that “he’s better for the economy” when he was steering it towards a major recession (if not depression) in his first term before the pandemic gave him cover, you are by definition a low information voter. Explaining to them the magnitude of a billion dollars is not going to change that because most of them wouldn’t even get it and the rest are too emotionally invested in this idea that politics is a team sport and “but muh red team.”
  13. They don’t exactly stick their fingers in their ears and ignore. They just do this:
  14. That’s usually what happens when you stop letting them be their own gimmicks and instead leave everything to the comedy writers
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