I heard The Professional Left saying that Democrats should try to swamp Dump with Obama on there ASAP, not that many cons get passports.

Can you imagine the poutrage from the cons?

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His father lived to be 93 and his mother 88.

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Christ, what an asshole.

It’s almost like donnie and pals are trying to make him as hated and as unpopular as possible.

Why can’t his PAC pay for this? He doesn’t even need that money for his own campaign, since asshat shouldn’t be running for any office anyway and I doubt he has that many viable years left anyway.

Gosh, if only donnie dumbass had not abolished the agreement the black guy set up.

However, the election of Obama broke the brain of so many conservative dipshits that they pushed him into power just to demonstrate the supremacy of the white man, as represented by donnie dipshit here. Clearly his bigly brain and stable genius-ness stands as a peak master race stuff.

I’m not even sure how to process this, but…ok?

It is about years and years and years of propaganda.

Ol’ Ronnie Raygun even cut an LP warning of the “dangers” of “socialized medicine”…back in - I wish I was kidding - 1961. And the propaganda against it goes back to decades before that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan_Speaks_Out_Against_Socialized_Medicine

Well, they were not all that liberal to begin with, but yeah, it’s likely to get worse.

I sure hope someone with deep pockets comes along and builds an actual liberal news network that is impervious to threats from the FCC and shitheads like donnie.

Also, something that is not subject to whims of megacorps and companies that advertise on it.

We sure could use one.

Remember, according to so many unhinged right wingers and reactionary centrists, CNN is supposed to be part of the radically left wing media.

Right, because no one who is white has ever collected welfare!

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I grew up in an extremely red area. Also very rural. I can tell you that welfare is mostly what held the fabric of things together, barely. It was virtually 100% white, too.

And yet, those fuckers were still voting Republican and bitching about “those people” in the cities “on welfare”.

Xtians believe that they deserve special privileges. They don’t recognize that as such, they just think it’s the natural order of the universe. They expect their chosen lifestyle of their special book club to be put up on a pedestal and never even have the precepts questioned.

The minute any of that unwarranted privilege is eroded in even the tiniest way, they view that as “but mah rights are being trampled!”

Trollito is so mad about that.

Also, how were the rights of xtians curtailed in any way? It’s not like the gays are stopping me from driving to any church and joining up. Also, it so happens a lot of gay people are also xtians, soooo…

Also, people are allowed to worship in their homes, however they choose (well, as long as they are not breaking the law, meaning things like human sacrifice are out). Nothing about that has changed.

He just doesn’t want anything that might slow down/stop/reverse his smash-and-grab being done on the United States. He’s giving himself and his family billions of dollars.

Also, he wants to stay out of prison.

Having Democrats run both houses of Congress could be a (mild) risk to him.

I really hate how sometimes the low info/ “independent” voter is catered to in so many discussions, too.

Like someone is totally vindicated of all their responsibility in treating politics like there really aren’t any stakes but their personal whims.

You’ll hear people proudly talking about their decision to opt out or vote for donnie. Because they were not just tickled pink by the Democratic option. Because the politician didn’t meet some arbitrary bar, didn’t say the right things on one particular issue, etc.

It’s not like politics is some kind of artisanal hipster bullshit that need to cater to the whims of some nebulous “independents” that are just dying to withhold their vote like they are some special bespoke creatures unlike any other. 🙄

LOL, he doesn’t say what put him over the top. The Republicans have always been like this. It’s just more brazen with donnie in charge, but it’s been over 10 years that he’s essentially been the de facto leader and he’s been broadcasting that he’s a hateful dipshit with no qualifications for all of that time (and the time before, too - going back to at least the 80s).

I’d love for people like this to get questioned as to why it took 10 years - what was it that made him flip on the cons? Was it gas prices? Is an AI center getting built in HIS backyard? Is he only in his twenties or something?

Republicans doing Republican things. This is the expected outcome of the shitty ideology that is conservatism. It’s always “Oops! All Assholes!” with conservatism.

If this guy thinks this most mild of criticisms means he will be accepted back into the lives of normal Americans, he can fuck all the way off.

Even if he paid out 5K, that would not offset the cost of everything he’s done. For the average household, it’s estimated that he’s cost thousands just in tariffs ~ $3500 so far. Let’s say there are two adults in that household and they get 10K. Let’s assume it’s taxed 10% at federal level and state takes nothing, they’d get 9K.

They continue to pay tariffs the rest of his failed term and pay enormous cost of everything else thanks to inflation and his war with Iran. That 9K would easily be erased.

Donnie is getting desperate.