The people who voted for Trump are still there. That’s all that actually matters.

They will vote for someone like him again. It’s only a matter of when.

There’s a statistic I saw the other day that something like 90% of Trump voters have never actually listened to him speak. Like, not properly. They see him in clips and soundbites. Part of a sentence, that sort of thing. When you cherry pick, you can find the stuff that sounds good, and they just fill in the rest. It’s only when you hear him for a solid minute that you really get that awful sense that this is not a remotely cogent or intelligent human being.

They’re not voting for Donald Trump, they’re voting for the guy from The Apprentice. They’re voting for a character, and that character sounds like someone who knows how to solve money problems and make deals. They figure, that’s all politics really is, right?

He also had one of the most incredible comebacks I’ve ever seen to the “mutilating children” bullshit; “Are you circumcised?”

Emotionally, yes. Read the article. Her partner is Jewish and was basically telling her that she was being anti-Semitic for backing Sayed. You throw that kind of borderline abusive emotional manipulation on top of half her campaign funding coming from AIPAC and it’s not hard to see how this happened. No conspiracy required.

This is literally just threatening to do the thing that everyone already knew he was going to do.

Europe is actively in the process of doing exactly that. I’m really not sure what you’re asking for here. You want them to, what, launch a 15,000 satellite communications network in a week? We live in reality, things take time out here.

Because killing a woman barely qualifies as murder in America to begin with.

This depends entirely on the notion that “religious freedom” is the freedom to impose your religion on others.

Major sanewashing here. What he was saying was that he’d be fine with it, and his bloodthirsty, genocidal fans cheered him for it.

The part that really upsets the rest of us is that after discovering he was, in fact, absolutely terrible at the job you all decided to give him a second try.

You’re right, but I wish people would stop using a movie that preaches eugenics as a point of reference.

Absolutely true, no argument there, but North America has a particular problem with animal protein as a cultural thing. It’s just basic stuff like portioning. You look at the amount of meat that goes on a plate for one person in an American family restaurant and compare it to what would go into an average stir fry, for example, and the difference is ridiculous. Even without getting into alternative protein sources we can start by just addressing the fact that at a basic level we eat a totally unnecessary amount of meat up here.

Does America need to ween itself off of its addiction to beef specifically, and over-consumption of protein (especially animal protein) in general? Yes, absolutely.

Does this particular person saying this as a member of this particular administration, for these poor particular reasons have the exact tenor of “Let them cake”? Also, yes, 100%.

“Because of tariffs, we are taking in hundreds of billions of dollars of profits,” he said. “It’s one of the reasons I can offer, if Republicans win the House and the Senate, $5,000 to every adult. And we can do it and the Democrats can’t, because the Democrats don’t have any income, and they’re gonna drive us in[to] a depression. They won’t have any money.”

His so-called logic is so bad it makes my head hurt.

1. You already control both chambers. You could pass it now if it wasn’t an obvious bribe to get people to vote for your party.
2. Nothing about the Dems winning midterms stops the tariffs being in place. Literally your entire legal argument is that you don’t need Congress to approve them, so logically the Dems controlling Congress wouldn’t stop them if that was true. So they’d still have the money.

How do people actually fall for this shit? How?!

Well, OK, I mean when you put it that way…

Let them eat pork.

You’re thinking of Venezuela.

No surprise that it’s Argentina, whose president is friends with Trump.

I don’t see this going anywhere. The companies bought the books, what they do with them after that is their business. Reprehensible, yes, but a massive stretch to consider this illegal.

There’s also a lot of ground between “Buying one copy of a book to scan” and “Destroying all copies of a book.” If they’re buying these in bulk it’s because there’s bulk to buy. Anything rare enough to be available in single digit numbers is selling at auction for six figures.

Look, I get it, this sucks, but there aren’t exactly a lot of legal remedies here. This is more of a “Capitalism fucking sucks and we need to dismantle it” kind of deal.

I literally addressed this exact argument in the comment you replied to, but you just skipped right past that part.