Do they still sell those novelty toy mics that broadcast and speakers pick it up?

I’m not telling you what to do with that, but there are many options.

They named it “second sound” because people just got confused when they called it a “heat wave”

Foreigners? No. Money? Yes.

Disney used to be very anti-LGBTQ because a high percent of their revenue came from China. Then China recalculated the ticket pricing and how many “foreign” movies could be brought in. You can literally see the about-face in Disney representation of “dressing up and traveling” people as their Chinese market share decreased bit by bit.

Buy the dip scam is entering into phase 2.

Death from “old age” is more likely.

Sounds like if the ship of theseus burnt to the ground, and years later, someone recreates it by modifying a boat to look like the original, would that be the ship of theseus?

Should call it the 66% party and only support things that 2/3rds of the public support.

A top-two runoff system is considered democracy. A system where the two parties are just the same thing, like in North Korea, is not.

Americans consider their two parties as very flexible about what they stand for. If there is a big enough group not represent by the incumbent, the other parties’ primary will be biased towards this group.

What we saw this time around, though, was two incumbents running against each other with no room for the non-represented group to be reflected. Thus, to that group at least, it felt like there was no difference (at least in the represtation).

Those that believed that there was no difference are now finding out how much of a difference it was - and they are now yearning for another vote to fix things.

It’s like invading Iraq when a bunch of Saudis that hate Iraq attack you. You have to ask yourself “is this exactly what they want me to do?” And then “If I want my revenge, whom should I attack and how?”

Attacking federal workers on behalf of Trump is not the way to “Stand up to Trump”

Donald Trump wants the courts to stop overturning his random EOs. A shutdown would close the courts.

This is the CR. This allows for more time to work on that budget… which only needs 51 votes because of reconciliation.

I feel like there is more going on than a coordinated TikTok campaign, but they don’t want to say anything less they tip off the Russian actors that they know what they are doing.

Still, imagine if SCOTUS banned the Democratic nominee from running for president because some foreigners were posting TikTok about then.

Trump: “I’ll run the USA like a company!”

How business people run companies: Fire all the competent people and replace with cheaper new hires. Report huge short term profits due to reduced payroll. Stock goes up. CEO ditches company and sells off stock before all the new hires completely wreak the company and tank the stock price.

Why wouldn’t the stock market be up at this point?

Well, yes, but it was a very weak case - but people were so sick of Bush that that was enough.

There is saying things, there is not doing things, and there is doing things.

Trump could say: “What if there was one day where there was no laws and people could just do anything, like the purge…” and… oh, he did say that during his first term. And democracy still survived. Saying things just make people loose respect for America. It is why Obama got the Nobel peace prize. Cause he stopped saying the shit that Bush was saying.

What people should be worried about is actions and inactions. It takes competency to do things. The more fascist a thing Trump wants to do, the more competent people leave and the less likely it is to be done. The true problem is it takes no level of competency to not do a thing.

So Trump’s end game is “Ask not what your country can do for you … because it can no longer do that.”

To be fair, Borris was the first American born British PM. So, you could still blame us.

Fair, I just see no other way of swaying minds without consequences. We tried 4 years of shielding people from Trump’s baser urges, and we ended with thousands of people dying each day to COVID. Then 4 year later THEY VOTED HIM BACK IN.

In 2016, people thought that Trump was the problem. That if Trump left, we could have civility restored to the electoral process. Defeating Trump won’t solve the problem because he isn’t it - it is the electorate. The voters need to SEE what will happen when this or that occur.

Deport all the immigrants, see the damage that brings, then bring them back with legal protections this time.

Cancel all the science, see how far behind we get, then bring it back with all the funding to make the next moonshot.

Get rid of all fogien aid, watch as our global power dimishes, the vote to bring it back with a clear and true purpose other than empire building.

The people don’t know WHY these things are important, and are unwilling to listen or learn. Thus, the only teacher is to experience. But to quote Trump: “There will be some pain” when doing it.

Just don’t buy meat directly - especially if you are hungry for bat and live in China.