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wildcat09

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  1. Look at brisket being optimistic. Those jobs will be unpaid internships.
  2. You need better friends.
  3. 3putt's twitter follows are bleak.
  4. The thing is that all that money shouldn't be spent on political campaigns. It should be spent on setting up new social/media institutions that work constantly, like the right has done. That money needs to be spent on the culture war, not saved for the last month of every campaign season.
  5. They literally could've thrown him in jail pretty much immediately after he left office. All they had to do was indict him for the shit that was already in the Cohen prosecution in which Trump was an unidentified co-conspirator. They could've in short order quickly added indictments for 1/6 based solely on the publicly-known evidence and continued to gather evidence to support more charges. We can't know for sure the courts wouldn't have sabotaged the cases in that scenario as well, but it would've been a very different environment. Instead they gave him more than 2 years to reassert control over the Republican party, to reshape the public's view of 1/6, and to rehab his image. They pussyfooted around and at every crucial decision they wavered and this is what we got. Stop fucking saying nothing else would've mattered, that's just fascist propaganda. They're not unbeatable, they're fucking losers who depend on people like you convincing enough other people that they're unbeatable.
  6. Nope, they're fascist collaborators. That doesn't mean there aren't people at those institutions that do good journalism, but their ownership have fully committed to collaborating with fascism. This is why they sanewashed Trump before the election and buried stories about him loving Hitler in the 25th paragraph in a story on A12 while front-paging Biden's "garbage" line for days. This is why Bezos pulled the op-ed board's Kamala endorsement. Hell, it's why they put stories about Claudine Gay on the front page like 10 times in one month last year, and why they heel every time Chris Rufo orders them to do so. They thought a Trump presidency would be good for their businesses and invested in him accordingly. And this isn't "for the first time in this nation's history," he's been the Republican candidate the last 3 fucking elections. They didn't do a better job of covering him because they didn't want to. Because they're collaborators. Sure, once he takes office they'll pretend to be all about checking him again to try to get those subscriptions back, but they're no more than controlled opposition and should under no circumstances be trusted and certainly not financially rewarded by liberals for their collaboration.
  7. I don't think CNN's ratings or NYT's or WaPo's subscriptions declining will necessarily be indicative of people tuning out. I think people realize those institutions are fascist collaborators and want to get their information elsewhere. I do think a lot of people don't want to repeat 2017-2020 and want to figure a different way to approach things this time and that may look different from obsessively following mainstream media.
  8. I seriously think they're angling for the Senate to reject several of their nominees.
  9. Let's be real here, everyone knows brisket is a messy bitch who says a lot of shit he doesn't totally mean.
  10. I remember when I used to post on message boards kinda like Seed likes to do. I was 15.
  11. Elon is getting kicked out of there and probably deported by March, when Trump gets enraged by all the “Elon shadow president?” stories.
  12. So y'all know that theory about the movie Children of Men where it's actually just Britain that's like that and the rest of the world is still going fine? We're going to be like that, having rolled back all the advances of the last 150 years of science and medicine, while the rest of the world just continues developing.
  13. Honestly Pronghorn should be banned for this. Then rounded up and tarred and feathered.
  14. This right here is how you internet.
  15. Hegseth advocates nuclear first strikes so it makes perfect sense that Ana likes him.
  16. Lol. It’s not even Thursday!
  17. Like you, I've been disappointed that no MAGA freaks ever want to talk shit to me in person. I think we just found our solution.
  18. This is literally “I remember life being better when I was a child.”
  19. Icono, you have been posting for literally decades on the various iterations of this forum that you feared you were losing the country for good. WE FUCKING GET IT.
  20. This is definitely one of those things that's not going to happen, but it would be fucking fascinating if they actually tried it.
  21. It involves that dude who whipped himself in the Davinci Code so it definitely doesn't generate graduates capable of forming independent thoughts.
  22. I imagine Ana's ideal educational system is whatever religious indoctrination the worst fictional version of Opus Dei would come up with.
  23. Do not fucking engage with pronghorn. What the fuck is wrong with you?
  24. The real enabling act was called Trump v. United States and it's already been decreed by our benevolent super-legislators.
  25. In my ideal alternate history scenario, Biden announces after the IRA passes that he won't seek a second term and spends the remainder of his term aggressively championing all the benefits it brings. Still not sure it would've been enough to get the Dem candidate a win, but it certainly would've been better than what we got. Dems need to focus on 2 things now: attacking billionaires and attacking the media (and these aren't always distinct). "He's the puppet of billionaires, including an illegal immigrant!" is a strong message that will play. "The media sanewashed him and lied to you about his plans because they wanted the ratings he would bring!" will play too. We need to get the type of voter who largely doesn't pay attention to think that the media is on his side, not ours, which shouldn't be that hard to sell given that it's true.
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