I hate those stupid Facebook images

Even when it’s not shitty ai someone burnt a part of our planet for.

Edit:

Oh, that’s literally all your account does…

At least there’s block buttons.

A bunch of red states already did…

They’re cutting restrictions on red diesel and letting trucks run overloaded to make less trips.

The red diesel is the big one tho, we need that shit to harvest crops here in a little bit, allowing it on road is going to burn thru the reserves that already wasn’t big enough.

trump is gambling on trying to get UK or other “allies” to give us their reserves, but they need that shit themselves, because of the war trump started.

It’s going to get much worse before midterms too. Which is why using reserves now is so stupid. Probably 2-3 weeks before election Iran is going to really tighten the screws and make gas prices skyrocket. I really could see them shutting off the whole tap to influence midterms against trump.

Maybe even flat out saying “if republicans win this won’t stop”. And with the Houthis controlling one major straight, they can hold it for literal decades

It’s not just a politician thing…

It’s why billionaires always get weird, why CEOs are selfish assholes, why a small business owner usually ends up acting like a dictator, or even teachers punishing students for being right. Or why celebrities do horrible shit and act surprised people don’t like it and call everyone haters…

Even why chat bot addicts withdrawal to the chatbot and stop talking to real humans.

Like, aging does play a factor due to how an aging brain deals with confusion, but this is perfectly normal human behavior. If someone stops getting negative feedback, when they get anything other than praise it feels like insults, and the person starts avoiding anyone that might do anything other than unadulterated praise.

Hillary didn’t realize what she was doing and neither does trump. He might think what you said as a rationalition, but that’s all it it. Just like Hillary’s “I don’t need to campaign outside of Blue states” was something she almost certainly believed at the time.

But was clearly wrong.

Not getting any negative feedback will fuck up any human brain. When’s the last time you think trump took negative feedback without coming up with an excuse why the person who said it isn’t just a hater?

Nope.

It’s what I just explained it is.

Powerful people who spend their lives surrounded by “yes men” expect to be treated like that 24/7.

They’re not gonna take questions from voters of the opposite party and try to gain votes like progressives do. They’ll go to where everyone loves them and be adored but never gain a single vote.

Everyone going to a rally is already voting for that candidate.

It’s a complete waste of resources due to hubris, that’s it.

He’s gonna pull a Hillary for the same reason Hillary did it…

Friendly territory also suits Trump himself. “The rallies are like a sacred thing for President Trump, and they always have been,” the White House official said. “He would rather spend his last election cycle having big MAGA rallies — and you get those in Oklahoma and Texas and in Alabama and Florida.”

He doesn’t want to go and change people’s minds to gain votes, he wants an adoring crowd telling him he’s stunning and brave.

So he won’t just spend his time doing that, he’ll spend all his money doing that instead of it being used to campaign where they need the votes.

Since RNC money is basically trump, this helps Dems in every close race. If trump wasn’t doing these rallies, that money could be spent in battleground races

And black people are astronomically more likely to be on welfare than white people. So the number of single young white male ‘Brads’ abusing the welfare system is minuscule,” posted Matt Walsh.

Matt Walsh doesn’t know how numbers work…

Most people on welfare identify as white, so pick any random welfare recipient, and statistically they’re gonna be white.

I don’t know what them being single has to do with it, sounds like he just immediately started defending incels…

“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.”

He’s flat out saying he considers the tarrif money “his” if a Republican government has access to it but a democratic government wouldn’t…

And obviously ignoring that the “profits” are from a tax on Americans buying shit

I know there’s dumber shit

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Dumbest fucking political system ever.

Besides Grassley, there are other near-90-year-old members, including Kentucky Rep. Hal Rogers at 88, Washington, D.C., Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton at 89, and others. Notably, 84-year-old Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, returned to Congress the week of Grassley’s 93rd birthday, after a hiatus from Congress that left Americans speculating about McConnell’s health and mental acuity.

The average age of senators in the current 119th Congress session is 63.9, while the average age of members of the House of Representatives is 57.9, according to data published by Congress. The median American age is 39.4 years old, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, which uses median – not average, or mean – to prevent outliers affecting population demographic data.

Eight in 10 Americans support a maximum age limit for officials in Congress, according to a May 2026 NPR/PBS News/Marist poll. The support for age limits spans ideological lines, with 78% of Democrats, 83% of Republicans, and 79% of independents in favor, according to the poll.

We’ll never convince any of them to resign, we need to just stop voting for them in primaries…

Also, a six year term is waaaaaay to fucking long

Dumbest fucking political system ever.

What an ignorant thing to say…

Not even historically even, like, just present day has worse shit…

Because a new Congress is every 2 years and majorities matter a lot…

Like, what do you think the gain is from kicking him out of the party?

And who do you think should be in control of vetting politicians for the party?

I understand your frustrations, but you haven’t thought this thru

One person who isn’t due to visit soon is former Vice President Kamala Harris. She hasn’t been to South Carolina since April, when she participated in a party fundraiser alongside a tour for her book recounting the whirlwind 2024 presidential campaign.

But Harris’ deep relations in the state mean she doesn’t need to come as early or as often as others, who are still gaining name recognition.

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I mean… The reason they’re doing this is to help their own election in 2 years, but you’re not supposed to say that out loud.

So when people ask Kamala why she didn’t go to SC to help, well, she’s actually dumb enough to say “I didn’t need the help in SC” completely missing the point that actually wanting and trying to help the midterm candidates is better than helping yourself.

Fuck all these selfish neoliberals, we can’t afford to keep wasting time on them, we need people who’s main priority is helping people, not who’s only priority is getting elected.

Tldr:

“Let’s revisit after the midterms, and let’s see what happens – you know – if I happen to be 51,” said Fetterman, who was elected to the US Senate in 2022. “I don’t know.”

If he has to put an R by his name to block Dems, he’ll do it.

But the grift money for being the most conservative Dem is a shit ton more than being a random Republican.

So he’s not going to do it unless there’s a reason, and that would likely come with a lump sum bribe.

He’s advertising that he’d be for sale to all the billionaires who want trump to be unaccountable

After saying all the bullshit was “just jokes” when targeted against other people:

The couple called a lawyer and the police for help fighting the harassment, and Amy filed for, and was granted, a “protection against stalking” order against one person who she said had perpetrated the most “insane lies.” But the hate only seemed to grow. Accounts shared a blurry video of a woman having sex, saying it was Amy, while others flooded the comment sections of their wedding photos and LinkedIn profiles with rape threats and artificially generated porn.

Lemmy wants to think it’s informed…

But I noticed a lot of people just repeat the same things that have been true for 30 years, which would have been fine if the faction who were the problem that entire time hadn’t lost control of the party after the last presidential.

People aren’t really informed here, they mostly just repeat whatever they heard someone say. Which explains why they blindly follow streamers/influencers.

They just want the dopamine hit of tribalism without actually trying to fix anything

Neoliberals want him to matter just as much…

They want to sticl problematic streamers like Piker to every progressive so that instead of talking about progressive policy, they can just make candidates defend a fucking twitch streamer using the candidate for views.

That’s why the republicans, neoliberals, and billionaire owned media won’t shut the fuck up about this douche.

You’re confusing neoliberals with Democrats, something that only helps neoliberals and Republicans and hurts literally everyone else…

Every single headline about him could be about a progressive candidate.

That’s why neoliberals and Republicans live him. He takes up valuable real estate in people’s minds so they’re not talking about progressive candidate.

It’s hard to tell who’s doing it intentionally and who has twitch brainrot.

What’s another two months?

Trump was in North Carolina to stump for Whatley and other Republicans in the state, which is still recovering from the aftereffects of Hurricane Helene two years ago. Democrats haven’t won a Senate seat in the state since 2008, but Democrat Roy Cooper is ahead in all of the state’s major polls, making Trump’s presence in North Carolina almost a requirement for the state GOP

This was already happening…

I forget which vote, but he voted the opposite of how he was supposed to and a bunch of aids had to jump in.

They just yelled at him to vote the other way, didn’t even attempt to explain what was happening.

There’s an army of staffers running our government thru geriatric puppets.