So, the immigrants are criminals if they are not authorized to be in the country. But the people unlawfully employing them aren’t criminals? I’m confused about what he’s saying, but then again, I’m also 100% he’s confused about what he’s saying so you can’t really blame me, right?
Lawsuits are to convictions like chocolate mousse is to catalytic converters.
Because it’s easy to manipulate the general public with these planned out and scheduled spectacles specifically developed to provide cover for all the truly terrible stuff that’s being done just slightly behind the curtains while also giving both sides convenient cover from the other’s failures.
Who is the alien and who is the predator?
Trump is the sexual predator. Well they both are, but Trump’s the one that’s legally proven. Musk is the alien, because that’s a term (ex: illegal alien) used to describe people who have immigrated to the USA.
Someone has been sitting on this one waiting for the scheduled fall out we all knew was coming.
I really pissed off a bunch of my family when I was a kid with this general concept.
“Illegal Mexicans” are taking all the jobs was a common sentiment with some of my adult family members and their friends. Being young, precocious, and naive, I remember asking why they are mad at the people “taking” their jobs, but not the owners who were hiring illegal immigrants. It didn’t go over very well.
I grew up poor in the southern part of the USA. Anti-intellectualism is a core tenant of most of the common religions in this region, which trend heavily towards evangelical christianity. One of my earliest formative memories is being called a “Scientologist” and getting condemned to hell because I believed in evolution. Lots to unpack there, I know.
On the other hand, I somewhat regularly get accused of using AI to write my comments/replies on various social media platforms, something which I have absolutely never done. Simply writing in my typical style, even with all the poor grammar and misspellings, is enough to make all the Dunning-Kruger mother fuckers crawl out of their basement long enough to make accusations against me.
Honestly, my experience is entirely anecdotal, and I completely admit that. I have not read this article yet, so I don’t even know what the conclusion is (but I can make an assumption).
Disclaimer being what it is, literally all of the full-on racist people I know or have known are also MAGA conservatives. And conversely, all the MAGA people I know or have known are way more racist than average. I say that from the perspective that, at least in the USA, most people have racial biases to a certain extent.
I’ve been told things like “You don’t have the right skin color to take the bus into the city”, meaning because I’m Caucasian with “white” skin, I would somehow be an outlier among the rest of the folks taking the bus. Many, many times I’ve heard statements like “we can’t even say [the N-word] anymore even though that’s what they call themselves all the time” and let me tell you the people saying that don’t say “N-word” they say the real deal that rhymes with chigger. They’ll claim illegal “Mexicans” took their jobs, without a moment’s thought about who hired those “Mexicans” or what nationality those “Mexicans” are. There’s really no skin color other than white-white that doesn’t receive some hate.
Anyway, this is just old man ranting at this point, and it may even be too long to be readable, so let me summarize it with FUCK RACISTS & FUCK MAGA.
Right hand to gay Jesus, I was literally coming into this thread to type out the exact same thing. Except my comment wouldn’t have had the italics or newline because according to my therapist I’m lazy and lack curiosity so I wouldn’t have spent the time or even had the inclination.
Disagree if you want, but I’ve felt this way and have been saying some variation of this (but perhaps not as eloquently) pretty much since November of 2024.
Granted, in the immediate wake of the election, even I didn’t think things would be this way, at least not so soon. As soon as he took office, anybody with half a brain cell could see, first-hand sans conjecture, just how much of a disaster we were in for. I was like, at this stage, we’re going to have to root for the hamberders to do their thing and in the mean time we’re going to have to turn the other cheek and accept those Trump voters who come to regret their vote. If there are enough of them, and they genuinely see an apology as a path out of the cult, there’s a better chance of turning things around.
My baby insanity wolf self already does a variation of this.
When my conservative family and acquaintances give me gifts, I donate the gifts to charities or political groups that I know those folks would hate to support. Uncle Ben gives me a debit gift card? That’s going to Bernie Sanders and the ACLU. Cousin Jen gave me a digital photo frame? That’s getting sold and the money’s going to Planned Parenthood.
The fact that I repeatedly tell these people not to give me any gifts and yet they still do is the icing on the cake.
You get a contempt. You get a contempt. And you get a contempt. Everybody gets a contempt.
What’s this “we” you’re talking about? I would rather not even have to think about his privates, let alone involve myself with the inspection.
How can anybody make jokes about this knowing what’s at steak?
Two words:
Leprechaun 4: In Space
Okay that’s slightly more than two words.
How do you know when Donald Trump is telling a lie?
His face turns orange.
If (isConservative(fuckwad) === true) then “totally okay” else “not okay at all, impeach, repeal, reject”;
My father’s side of the family is super, duper, ultra hardcore “conservative” Trump-loving “Christian”.
They love, love, love to bring up politics at every conceivable opportunity. It’s one of those situations where I have loathed going for visits for decades and sometimes even making the obligate check-in calls plays heck on my “nerves”.
But in the past few years when the conversation turns political, I’ve started hearing big shifts in tone when it comes to opinions on the ultra wealthy in the USA. The last time I was at a family gathering around the holidays, they were berating the Luigi situation and talking about how disgusting it was that anybody would do that, let alone condone it.
That conversation literally did a 180 once I pointed out how it was interesting that the school shooting that happened that same day (or maybe it was a day or two before/after) had received a fraction of the coverage. And it was interesting how murders of people who aren’t rich don’t get that kind of coverage. Basically, when people like you and me get killed for whatever reason, you don’t hear about it. But a rich person is shot and suddenly it’s national news and top billed news for weeks. Wonder why that is?
And those conservative “I hate liberals and liberals should be shot” relatives of mine were in complete agreement.
So, whether you think it sucks or not, you need to know that if you actually want change and actually want things to improve, you’re going to have to forgive and you’re going to have to find common ground with people that you otherwise disagree with on a fundamental level. Fuck you if you say otherwise, you are wrong. And I don’t say that lightly.
Thanks, Obama.
Those are pretty ladies and cute outfits! Hope they drink sufficient amounts of water and stay hydrated, else time may not be kind to their skin.