Obviously for Trump the beautiful part about it is the multi trillion dollar tax cuts to the 1%.
There is absolutely nothing beautiful about it.

Except this time Trump actually won the popular vote too.
Which is even more discouraging.

I once stocked a work bathroom with them four times in a month.

I have no idea why you would do that? But maybe the reason they are taken is because they think it’s the administration that puts the there.

To the question, it’s obviously not nice to be exploited, and the one doing it is not a nice person. If someone continues to exploit, I definitely wouldn’t support that.

A better idea would be to sterilize people of low empathy.

Andy Warhol allegedly had an IQ around 80-90. But contributed a lot to society.
IQ as a measure of the value of people is bullshit, because it’s an extremely narrow part of our combined intelligence that is measured.
For instance empathy is not part of an IQ test, but is a crucial feature for societies to work well. As societies with higher social intelligence function relatively better.
Something Trump is actively demonstrating right now. Remove empathy from how society works, and the losses are enormous.
Trump and his ilk do not understand that, because they don’t have it.

Yep, they’ll just blame the Chinese, Europe and of course the Democrats.

I hope they learned their lesson.

Oh I’m sure the Chinese did, republicans however? …

WTF!? David Hogg is a fighter, he fought the injustice of school shootings fiercely and brilliantly. And for the first time ever NRA was seriously shaken very much due to the Parkland survivors.

It’s very obvious why he is frustrated by Wall Street democrats, if you haven’t noticed USA could literally lose their democracy by the bad decisions and inaction of democrats, allowing MAGA to bulldozer over everything without resistance.

Members of a bipartisan group of U.S. senators who visited Ottawa this past weekend say they want to bolster the Canada-U.S. relationship despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent attacks

I’m not Canadian, but as a European this is my reaction to senators reaching out:
Yeah that’s not how this works. Get rid of the Trump administration should be your priority.
Then depending on what happens, maybe we can talk.

USA is per definition an enemy now to both Canada and EU, an enemy that threatens invasion, and is attempting to destroy the economies of close allies. USA as a country is letting this happen, and we have to respond to USA as a country.

We can’t have individual policies with groups of congressmen.

In my experience yes.

My ex was always rambling about how men were always unfaithful, “oops I slipped and my dick ended up inside her” she used to say, to describe how easily men are unfaithful. She made it absolutely clear she wanted a monogamous relationship.
I was never unfaithful to her, but of course it turned out she was herself unfaithful numerous times, and it was crazy how bad she was at hiding it, almost like she wanted me to break up. So I did, and good riddance!!!
Later when I was moving in with a new girlfriend, and I was collecting some of my things at my ex, she was all dressed up, and all over me, kissing me and trying to win me back. She tried to kiss me on my mouth but I turned my head so it was on the cheek.
My girlfriend was waiting in the car outside, and she saw the lipstick on my cheek when I came back, obviously not too happy about it. But I explained it was all my ex and not me.
Lucky for me she didn’t ditch me, and later my new girlfriend agreed to become my wife, and we’ve been together for 20 years now! 🥰

A friend of mine had just bought a very expensive apartment in Copenhagen together with his girlfriend. The papers were signed and the deal was closed. There are a few days where you can get out of the deal, and in that period my friend was told his girlfriend had been unfaithful. He didn’t believe it at first, but the day after the deadline for getting out of the purchase, his girlfriend broke up!

I’m not saying women are worse than men, but the idea that men are more unfaithful than women is bullshit. There are more men than women in the relevant age groups, so obviously on average women have more sex than men do. That’s simply a statistical necessity.

I was about to write they need to make an offense first.
But you are right, they already did that, by preventing legal oversight.
That shouldn’t be allowed to pass.

As a European, looking at that map is really really REALLY depressing!!
I’m a bit surprised to see China is more popular than USA in so many European countries including my own.
I don’t think that’s really the case if people thought more about it, it’s the immediate reaction of feeling betrayed by a friend and ally.
But if USA continue their current hostile policies against Europe and the world, and continue on their path towards fascism, of course China can be seen as the lesser evil.
One thing is for sure, the old relationship with USA is ruined, and there is very little chance EU will go back to be as pro American as we used to be.
This is a HUGE loss on both sides, we should have stood together to protect democracy, and to balance out China, that will soon be a global economic force never before seen.
But Instead USA chose to attack every ally they have, and alienate them beyond repair. Hopefully China will be a graceful superpower, when there is nobody to counter them.
USA needs to turn around super fast, and make it clear that the MAGA crowd is out politically for good.
Because democracies like USA and Europe and other allies need to strengthen alliances rather than weakening them. And we need to stand more for the values of democracy instead of breaking them down.
If we don’t, China and BRICS will dictate the terms in the future, and the world will devolve into an authoritarian hell.

Trump during intelligence briefing:
“I’ll close my eyes a bit while you are talking, so I can better concentrate on what you are saying, carry on…”

“rrrrr rrrr rrrrr”

MAGA’s society is one where white people rule and set the laws.

Absolutely, but it was not only white people who voted Trump in, a lot of Latinos and Hispanics also voted for him, and they are absolutely targets already!

Do the Americans really want USA to be a fascist gestapo country?
How exactly do the methods of Trumps regime reflect a society that values freedom?

I’m not saying you are wrong, more that it’s probably not that much better in other countries.
This research may be skewed, because they may not test on schools they know are doing poorly?

Well unless I’m reading this wrong, it seems USA is doing pretty well compared to other OECD countries (age 15):
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d19/tables/dt19_602.50.asp

Half of Americans have a functional literacy below a 6th grade level

Is this factual? Because if that’s true, that’s extremely bad, even shameful for a rich country like USA.

That’s why I’m not just an atheist but an anti-theist.

USA has a lot more crazy people than I ever suspected.
This lack of realization when faced with reality is way beyond any worst case scenario I ever imagined.
I thought most of the people who voted for him, simply didn’t believe the warnings. Turns out they actually support that shit?!?!

I bet the Democrats are using the momentum to send a stern message. And the press will proudly feature articles of how the Democrats SLAMMED the white house!! And the White house will barely notice, and go on doing what they are doing.