Americans only care about big explosions in the desert on camera and mistake that for genuine military power. Expensive hobby.

I can NOT believe I forgot about this gem.

Do they realize how out of touch they are? Rhetorical question, I know, but they’re doing that thing again they tried with Bernie. “Look at all these objectively lovely things this Stalinist puppet wants! Why would ANYONE think good things are good!? What about the RICH!?!?” Soviet cartoonists drawing pig-faced capitalists couldn’t conjure up better caricatures.

“Crash out” originally comes from AAVE, everyone else says it now because they either heard it from TikTok or through cultural osmosis.

I’m sorry, can this possibly be anything other than satire? Mads Mikkelsen?

Telling that these grievances all center around foreign policy and trade. “We uphold the commitments we make!” YOU can uphold the commitments YOU make with MY tax dollars, I’ll just go and mind my own business.

If I were to feel inclined to fight in the streets, it would be over the unlawful deportation of my neighbors, the genocide my government is financing, or my right to live as a woman and love who I deem fit. Ukraine will simply never be on my list of priorities.

“We at the White House are very concerned about the antisemitic rhetoric on our college campuses, so we’re deporting all our Arab exchange students to CECOT (and the Chinese ones too for good measure). Also, how dare you criticize our neo-nazi diversity hire?”

So sad that their romantic vision of being settlers in occupied Palestine has been dashed. Imagine how many Arabs they could have killed together!

And then The Wall Street Journal dropped the hammer, revealing that UnitedHealth is under federal criminal investigation for possible Medicare fraud.

No amount of money was ever going to be enough for UNH, and no method of making it could ever have made them stoop too low. It wasn’t enough that they rescinded insurance and denied claims every time they could and then some, they also had to parasitize the few public healthcare institutions out of their explicit reach.

Next Luigi should use explosives

The decision to reverse course comes after an industry lobby group called for the rule change to be withdrawn.

I’m so glad I live in a country where we don’t have corruption, just lobby groups which are different.

Does this man have any actual opinions? He might as well be a skinsuit people fight over the privilege of wearing.

“Pleased to announce we’re saving you hundreds this year by not paying the gas bill.”

I think they believe that presidential elections truly fundamentally transform centuries-old institutions every time someone of the other party gets in charge. That coupled with the belief that the news is absolute truth creates a perfect cocktail for chasing their own tails. The problems never went away, they didn’t even appear in our lifetimes, but the media started talking about them a decade ago after not talking about them for many, many decades, and they stopped talking about it once Biden was elected before starting again now that the old guy is back in charge. So, in the brains of these libs, racism and fascism suddenly appeared with Donald and lasted four years before disappearing for the length of one presidential term and spontaneously manifested again out of the ether in current year. Because these things never existed before Donald, right?? It’s hard to watch.

I won’t say that Trump isn’t “worse” than other presidents (though he is better than many on the grounds that they aren’t allowed to own slaves anymore), but the idea that he represents a strict and total deviation from normal american politics is just so silly. Liberalism must interfere with the neural pathways responsible for object permanence.

Liberals really just want the mask back to go back on.

“‘The nation should not have to worry that the intelligence assessments the President receives are tainted by a Director of National Intelligence with a history of alarming lapses in judgment,’ McConnell said."

Pretty fast and loose definition of a “lapse of judgement,” there. Seems she was absolutely right about Ukraine and the other shit Mitch “criticizes” her over.

“I’m not sure what the dumbass is even trying to do in the end.”

This might be a pedestrian opinion, but I wonder if being the world’s nominally richest person isn’t enough for him, or that he at least understands how ephemeral that status actually is. His wealth is largely based on speculations of the runaway success of his “revolutionary/visionary” businesses and “innovations,” and he may be coming down from that high. Seeing as he’s not going to actually colonize mars, the hyperloop is old news, and no one wants to buy a cybertruck, Twitter didn’t pan out super well, etc, he might feel that the jig is up. Getting a foot in the door of more traditional power structures by being Donald’s sycophant and the latest MAGA darling could be his attempt to concretize his “wealth” into actual power.

Darren, if it weren’t for all the thuggish imbeciles of the world, there’d be no one to do your dirty work.

Just toss out the whole company at this point. And call a few firing squads.

Absolutely fucking sickening. Xi launch the nukes my people yearn for freedom.

“We’re giving the president and his cronies more discretion and shielding them from the consequences of their actions to fight the deep state.” I would’ve thought if anything qualified as “the deep state,” it would look exactly like this.