February 2022

I had a pretty revealing conversation with my brother yesterday

he used to be a libertarian adjacent but as of recent seems to favor trump under the guise “Biden won’t fix anything, I want to see everything burn down and get rebuilt, at least trump will lead to that.” I’ve told him about climate change, SC seats, all the short term victories we really need for the long term. Didn’t seem too budged. It sucks. There are still many apathy voters who feel like nothing will get better, and I’ve felt that sentiment before but if we can do anything to slow down our collective car crash, I’m on board with doing that.… Continue reading

Trump wants to talk about corruption? Let’s look at all the criminal convictions against Trump’s inner circle

President Trump’s allies and those within his circle have come under criminal scrutiny. Some have been convicted of committing crimes including bank and tax fraud, misusing charity funds, obstructing investigations, lying, witness tampering, campaign finance violations, and foreign lobbying violations. Here are 8 examples from the last four years:

  1. In 2019 the Trump Foundation was ordered to pay $2 million for misusing charity funds for personal use following an investigation.[1] The Trump Foundation dissolved following an investigation led by the New York Attorney General.[2] President Trump was ordered to pay $2 million for misusing charity funds.[3]
  2. In 2019 Trump campaign adviser and long time friend of President Trump – Roger Stone was convicted and sentenced to prison.
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When Trump Defines You

Are you telling me that there aren’t people out there like this? Because I personally know several.

I’m sure there are, but of the two, the people who dismiss any criticisms of Trump as “orANgE mAN bAD” are worse. In the words of Dave Chapelle, regardless of whether you like his policies or not, you have to agree he’s having a terrible go at it.

Of course. This is just making fun of the people that base their beliefs currently on what the president supports/opposes, even if that is a 180 from their beliefs a couple of years ago. There are obviously very legitimate reasons to opposed Trump (and I assume a few to support him as well) but a lot of people screech about everything he does just because he did it.… Continue reading

What’s crazy is that this polarization is pretty new in a lot of ways

like last 20-30 years new. Americans always had their disagreements but in the past most people could at least agree on the problems we needed to address. Now we can’t agree on the problems much less the solutions.

Polarization in the house:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/VBIRAXKYPYYQTMDV3LAWFREIDA.png&w=530

There was always a lot of polarization and differences – they were just regional in the past. And not tied to party affiliation, either. A Democrat in Alabama would be quite different than a Democrat in New York City. Probably more different than Democrats and Republicans in the same state.

Now everyone is all mixed together, and identify more with groups they connect to online than to their neighbors.… Continue reading

How can 42 percent of Americans still support the worst president in our history?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/13/how-can-42-percent-americans-still-support-worst-president-our-history/

I sure have made use of this quote a lot recently:

His fans don’t care that he didn’t pay taxes. His fans don’t care if he cheated on his taxes. His fans don’t care that he lies about his taxes. His fans care that he hates, and tries to hurt, the same people they hate.

Trump has made the confirmation of 200 federal judges, including two Supreme Court justices, a significant part of his reelection campaign. But Hawley said religious conservatives right now are “very depressed,” particularly after Justice Neil Gorsuch, a Trump pick, wrote the decision providing LGBTQ workers with federal workplace protections.

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Minnesota’s 0.000004% Voter Fraud Cited as GOP Suit Tossed

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-12/minnesota-ballot-suit-tossed-by-judge-citing-000004-fraud-rate

Conservatives can’t prove that widespread voter fraud is real. The Heritage Foundation, at Trump’s insistence, already tried in 2017 and this was the result: Less than 1,100 individual cases spanning from as far back as 1982 found:

http://thf-legal.s3.amazonaws.com/VoterFraudCases.pdf

That’s THEIR report, by the way.

But hold up–there was an update to that number in march. According the Heritage foundation, that number “swelled up” to a whopping 1,285

Trump himself set up a commission to prove his claim that there was widespread voter fraud and that’s why he lost the popular vote. You remember what happened?

The commission found so few cases they disbanded without producing a single report.… Continue reading

Fuck the hypocrisy of Republicans saying, “The government has no business in the religion of citizens and there shall be no litmus test for Amy Barrett’s,”

while in the same breath, be confirming this Handmaid’s Tale bitch under the silent acknowledgement that she is solely there to merge Government & Religion while resetting the bodily rights of women back 50 years.

This is what you get with nonsecular government. Religious fanatics and Fascists gaslighting the world and making us all feel bad that we would even think to test the most fundamental beliefs that will go on to effect every decision made by this LIFELONG appointment to SCOTUS.

Anyone who doesn’t see through this by now is exactly the type of sheep these false Shepherds love to take for all they’ve got.… Continue reading