Mooseontheloose posted:

Trump directly bombed Iran.

STAC Goat posted:

It’s kind of impressive that “Donald the Dove” remains alive as a concept.

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Finally, some policy specifics out of this election cycle that is shockingly light on policy specifics. Unfortunately, it is pretty horrible policy.

*the dumbest poo poo imaginable follows*

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

If you're in one of those categories, then $6 trillion in tax cuts will do a lot to smooth out a roughly 13.8% increase in prices.

That is about $87,000 per year less in taxes for the top 1% vs. a roughly $47 higher average grocery bill.

Also, according to the Trump campaign economists, deregulation, unleashing American energy production, and the corporate tax cuts will supercharge the economy and raise incomes to combat that price increase. So, it is slightly unfair to say that those policies will result in a 13.8% real income decrease for the average person since there will likely be a non-zero amount they "get back" in tax cuts or economic growth. Although, most of the tax cuts for lower-income households come from making the existing Trump tax cuts permanent, so that isn't actually a net change from right now and is just a net change against a hypothetical 2026 where the tax rates go up.

Still, it is likely going to result in a real income decrease for most people unless the supercharged economy from those policies performs above all expectations and estimates to an astonishing degree. It is also going to depend on your spending habits and what industry you work in as well. It isn't going to be totally evenly distributed in impact.

Failed Imagineer posted:

The median new American car weighs half a tonne more than a European car. That would be worth a lol if it didn't directly mean a whole lot of kids getting their skulls crushed.

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

I agree that it is almost never going to really happen again, but it is still pretty striking.

Despite her (and her husband's) repeated and wild negligence, she is probably correct that basically no mother assumes that their kid is going to become a mass murderer and acts with that information in mind. It is extremely rare to hold parents criminally responsible for almost anything their minor child does, let alone multiple manslaughter charges that can carry a prison sentence of up to 15 years.

haveblue posted:

This was posted two years ago. How is he still doing this today

haveblue posted:

I feel like ruling that children are identical to adults and may not receive special treatment or abridgment of rights under the law may have some repercussions

Cimber posted:

what a loving shitheel.

https://twitter.com/AdamParkhomenko/status/1755278108117139647

zoux posted:

Yeah the dipshit thing was Johnson holding a vote that he either didn't count noses on or was so close that he was reckless in holding it, given his insane caucus. Just from a legislating perspective, the House GOP has no idea what it's doing.

ephori posted:

Dapper_Swindler posted:

his pick got crushed in the primary by some weird moron who basicaly read /pol/ posts i believe. Like i think he can pull of a primary win and could probably win the general but i think he will lose to some maga weirdo.

bird food bathtub posted:

I will give him the credit he doesn't deserve, he was one of the last of a dying breed of Republicans that weren't in the party for the express purposes of cheering on fascism. He didn't hide his -R, but he did actually speak out against Trump. gently caress him and I hope he fucks off as I still knocked on doors for his opponent because he is on team -R instead of coming clean and renouncing them but he was no Boebert or Greene.

Failed Imagineer posted:

Yeah, when anyone does some poo poo that is completely inexplicable the answer is often stupidity and/or hella drugs

mawarannahr posted:

As I already mentioned, it has to be evaluated in the context of his umbrage vis-a-vis the well-known reliability issues for a system that is operating on water.

mawarannahr posted:

OK. Do you think when he said those it was due to age-related cognitive impairment?

Fart Amplifier posted:

Trump claims that magnets stop working if you put them in a glass of water and this has people arguing about magnetic catapults like Trump has the foggiest idea

RealityWarCriminal posted:

Trump is generally anti- foreign aid. Israel would not be able to do what it is doing without continued American support.

Xiahou Dun posted:

It's unintuitive but not difficult. That's exactly what education is for. We could solve (or at least massively reduce) this with a minor update to the middle school curriculum.

koolkal posted:

IIRC Newsmax pivoted away from election fraud claims after they received a bunch of lawsuits, similar to Fox

Aztec Galactus posted:

I had someone very close to me pass away and I can never remember which year it was because those next couple of years are a blur caused by emotional distress

Senate Cum Dump posted:

Instead the rich people uploaded themselves into robo-brains. So we should probably make sure the Peoples' Bunker Breaching Brigades are equipped with EMPs or similar to disable Neuralinks and other devices.

haveblue posted:

Killing Hitler 2 changed the timeline so they also had to kill Hitlers 3 and 4 before it stuck

DeadlyMuffin posted:

Only if the difference is because of who is in the chair.

Do you think the Palestinian body count would have been lower 2016-now if Trump had remained in power? It seems like this is what you're trying to imply without actually saying it.

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Those both contributed to a lot of instability in the region, but the thing that caused the current conflict is that Hamas launched an attack that killed 1,400 Israeli civilians. Unless Trump had a hand in planning that, then I don't think you can really blame him directly for the current conflict.

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Last year, she said they need to "restore consequentiality to sex" by banning abortion and birth control to make women think twice about having casual sex.

She also says that the only way to stop casual sex and return sex to its "true purpose" is to "restore the danger to sex for women."

Raenir Salazar posted:

Honestly the sooner we can properly age gate the internet the better.

Young Freud posted:

Apparently, this guy's a first time state senator who was previously a owner-operator truck driver who ripped off a Native American mechanic and got punched out by him at a car show. He won his seat unopposed after winning the Republican primary. Also, he was still collecting campaign funds, despite no opposition candidate, up until election day to pay off liens and debts. Dude is absolute filth.
https://nondoc.com/2022/08/31/senator-elect-tom-woods-punched-in-face/

Sarcastro posted:

I've enjoyed, from time to time, looking up the "lives in" location of someone on FB who tells me or someone similarly situated that we "live in a bubble." Invariably it's someone living in a town of 2,000 in a county of 20,000 (98% white, obviously), speaking to those of us who live in a metro area with eight million.

FlamingLiberal posted:

The only thing I will remember about her is how she stopped using the Romney name because Trump loving hated Romney’s guts

Velocity Raptor posted:

You're instinct looks to be right. They didn't pay $18m to get the documents back. It was a settlement for claims that the Watergate tapes and other materials that were seized without compensation. And even then, 6m of that was for improvements to the Nixon Library.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jun-13-mn-40455-story.html

FMguru posted:

This is probably because the California GOP is almost completely moribund. The Dems control all eight statewide offices, both senate seats, the mayoralties of every large and medium city, and the congressional delegation is 40-11. The CA Republican party is so pointless that the state chamber of commerce stopped donating to it a decade ago.

Running a recall election is pretty much the only thing the CA Reps can do to get noticed or have even a sliver of a chance of gaining some power (it worked in 2003, giving us 1.5 terms of Gov. Schwarzeneggar).

golden bubble posted:

https://bsky.app/profile/akivamcohen.bsky.social/post/3kmg27byuzy2b
https://bsky.app/profile/akivamcohen.bsky.social/post/3kmg2b3aakb2v


https://epicmra.com/team.htm

FizFashizzle posted:

lol you can barely get WIC for your children in Alabama.

Space Cadet Omoly posted:

Exactly, biblically accurate angels rule and I'd enjoy seeing them floating around on earth because they have a rad as Hell aesthetic, but my first impulse would also be "I should leave that thing alone".

I guess in my mind Angels and Demons are different from regular monsters? Like, I can understand wanting to capture Bigfoot or Nessie for science, but the Bible makes it very clear that messing around with Angels is a bad idea.

Dapper_Swindler posted:

the american evangelical psycho poo poo.

Jesus III posted:

There is only proof of life on one planet.

Blue Footed Booby posted:

It's a quote from Men in Black.

Professor Beetus posted:

It was also an extraordinary circumstance that hadn't been seen for roughly 100 years and required a drastic response, and Republicans still fought to make the government response shittier. That all that happened was in spite of Trump being in office, not because of it. A hypothetical response under President Clinton would probably have been just as helpful, if not more so.

Okuteru posted:

Also, the whole Central Park Five thing

Captain_Maclaine posted:

Reminder that one of the very early tenants of the Proud Boys, which they pretend never existed these days, was that wiping your rear end was unacceptably homoerotic.