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I don’t see Alaska facing these problems.

All it takes is for one determined furry to pull up their programming socks and hack into Truth Social and start posting under Trump’s name and we’ll see that dry up real quick, unless he wants to make all his official announcements surrounded by uwu’s and lewd pictures of Pokémon.

Dollars to donuts it’s going to be stupid easy to do as well, because Trump is incapable of hiring competent employees or of paying whoever he does hire.

Ding ding ding, winner!

Thing is, he’s absolutely right. It’s way beyond past time to create a powerful political third party in the US that genuinely represents the interest of the people.

Elon Musk, however, should not be allowed anywhere within brick throwing distance of it.

Nor should most anyone else who is actually capable of funding it. Herein lies our actual problem.

and doesnt really bother anyone?

Don’t they threaten to fire missiles at America like, weekly?

And try and fail to do it once every six months or so, I feel like I’ve been hearing about failed North Korean missile launches or tests with some regularity since like 2000.

Insulin manufacturers?

Hmm… Sounds blatantly illegal.

Put it on the pile, I guess.

Yeah, that’s what you do when your sales are shot, you downsize. I can’t be mad at them shuttering studios that they literally can’t afford to keep open, what else are they expected to do?

I have an issue with it when companies report record profits and then cut everyone, Devolver didn’t do this.

• Conservatives are doing [X]

• They pre-emptively go on TV and loudly blame democrats for [X] before it becomes a major story

• When it comes to light that [X] is in fact happening the public is already primed to blame their opponents for it

It’s the sort of thing a 5 year old might do to try and blame the cat for a broken cookie jar, it’s baby’s first con, it’s stupendously obvious what’s going on, but, here we are.

I have never, ever in my entire life aspired to any sort of political office. I figured I wasn’t well suited to that, I don’t have a law degree, it’s just not for me.

These days that opinion is now “well I couldn’t possibly do a worse job than the ones actually getting elected for this”, so…

Fuck around, and y’all might catch me running for local office soon.

I fix cars at a big retail chain and yep. There’s instant verification now where in order to accept it we have to punch all the info into some service on the POS computer to make sure the check clears, but if it does, yeah we take those. Money is money. Checks are still issued and cashed by banks so we still take em.

Yeah it feels like that’s getting glossed over but that’s a really fucking big deal.

For those unaware, habeas corpus (from Medieval Latin, lit. ‘you should have the body’, basically ‘bring us this guy’) is a legal procedure that exists in basically every legitimate government anywhere, not just American, which effectively states that if you’ve been wrongly imprisoned then your lawyer can call to have you moved from prison to a courtroom to determine whether your detainment is lawful. Basically saying you can’t just be thrown in a dungeon to be forgotten about because someone can force the court to retrieve you and give you a court date. I’m not a legal expert so read it for yourself to get a good understanding.

At any rate, someone recommending suspending habeas corpus is never up to any good, it is always 100% bad without exception, always. Even saying those three words together should be instant political suicide and should be grounds for disbarment. Successfully suspending habeas corpus with your rubber stamp and signature should be subject to execution. Any judge who accepts that it is suspended is unfit for their position.

How come this is the first time we’re hearing from her, then?

Bernie Sanders has been out on the trail since January, circling the country telling everyone that Trump is a dangerous criminal. Where was Murkowski at? Not there, that’s for sure. Not running her own version of the same. She backed and approved every single Trump cabinet appointee except for Hegseth.

Forgive me if I’m not impressed.

I’ve seen more competent cabinets in an ikea

The way I heard it (I didn’t watch the stream) was that he logged in and toasted like three hardcore characters (you know, because he’s so hardcore) then rolled up something new, died to the tutorial, and left.

Dying is in fact a problem when all your characters are hardcore characters. That’s why the only people who play hardcore are masochists and whoever Elon has on the payroll to be a masochist for him.

That is not a reasonable bar by which to judge any living human being.

You might deserve it, I’m pretty confident saying the trans kids and legal immigrants who are being disappeared off the streets probably don’t.

However bad you think that is, it’s almost definitely worse.

TL;DR: The CyberTruck is 17 times more likely to have a fire fatality than a Ford Pinto, a car endlessly memed on by an entire generation for its flammability.

You should go read that article, because it’s short, but just look at this chart I pulled from it.

I’ve spent my entire life watching the “minority” Republicans successfully squash, blockade, deflect, filibuster, or poison every single bill any Democrat has ever put forward to make anyone’s life better, while simultaneously presenting and passing their own bills that make everyone’s life worse in service of their own paycheck.

Now that the tables are turned and a similar sort of action is required of the Democrats to literally save the foundations of our democracy, they do nothing.

That’s why.

I’ve been a proud Democratic supporter and blue voter my entire life and I’ll continue to vote for them if I continue to not be offered better options. But I’m not happy about doing it anymore. I no longer trust the Democratic party to be a bastion against fascism and that’s just the long and short of it. The most basic showing of resistance against any of this bullshit probably would have locked in my vote for Democrats for the rest of my life, but they can’t even do that. We have Bernie Sanders and AOC doing the same things they’ve done their entire lives, and every other person is just sitting back in shock watching their office get looted and doing nothing about it.