Th4tGuyII

You’re literally doing exactly what this post complains about. The overwhelming sentiment of Harris replacing Biden was change - her campaign ran on that - yet she had basically all the same stances/policies a Biden, especially where it mattered to the voterbase (I.e. Gaza). She had an opportunity to diverge from Biden’s less popular platform, but chose not to, and it cost her the election. That’s the rub.

As for 2016 - people did turn out for Hilary. She won the popular vote by a significantly higher margin than Harris.

And as for 2020, Biden only won so easily because Trump’s woefully incompetent response to Covid19 was still in recent memory - and even that still resulted in a smaller margin than Obama’s first term.

Given the available context, I’m inclined to agree with ChatGPT. I can’t see those listed being anything else

They could’ve just said to withdraw the Navy /s

Honestly do it Russia. Them hitting first would be great precedent to start sinking all the Russian subs lurking around NATO territory

Turns out you can get away with basically anything as long as you have enough power.

I’ve always thought the US justice system is two-tiered, but never did I think I’d see it so blatantly put on display

What we need liberating from is Elon. Man acts like he’s the new Jesus, when in reality he’s a fanatical narcissist who used immense generstional wealth to cheat his way to the top on the shoulders of true innovators, whom he kicked out once their start-ups got successful enough

If I’m mentally ill for criticising Trump for being such an overtly corrupt conman that he has literally stolen money from a children’s charity, then so fucking be it.

I’m sure if I was the lottery winner I’d be salty in this scenario, but you only get half as a lump sum anyway, and having $1 billion taxed at roughly half is probably how it should be.

The thing that makes it painful is as OP said, all billionaires should be getting taxed like this, not just that one who can’t exploit tax loopholes.

Whelp - anyone who took bets on Donnie turning his back on his main audience before even starting his presidency can now collect their winnings

Damn, you mean to tell me the lifelong con-man and his team of other con-men and tech oligarchs didn’t actually have their audience’s best interests in mind, and were just parroting off whatever the right-wing wanted to hear to harvest their votes?

Well I never saw that coming /s

Now would you call this Donald Musk, or Elon Trump?

If that’s even remotely true, then I can see how things have turned out the way they have. A populous that understands damn near nothing about the world around them is simply not prepared to fight the ever increasing amount of disinformation and scapegoating thrown at them by those with malicious motives

How the fuck do people keep giving him more money??

Most of his ventures are dumpster fires, and SpaceX only runs well because he doesn’t touch it.

Israel gets all the munitions it wants to enact a genocide, but Ukraine has to fight for every bullet to fight for its own sovereignty against a modern day dictator. The US government’s priorities really are something.

Would the US like it if another country tried to push it to the side and negotiate on its behalf on literally any issue, not even war-related?

Do you think the US would accept the outcome of such negotiations willingly?

I suspect it wouldn’t, so expecting another country to do so is pure hypocrisy.

I like how the regular stuff is obfuscated and buried deeper than Putin’s bunker, but Vampire Porn is just hanging about barely below the surface

Well Trump did say he’d make America great again - surely he can’t have been lying about making it better for the vast majority of people who live there, right?? /s

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has opposed the rule, calling it “nothing more than an attempt to micromanage businesses’ pricing structures, often undermining businesses’ ability to give consumers options at different price points.”

Oh bullshit - if every “option” costs the same after adding hidden mandatory fees, then you’re not providing “price points”, you’re just straight up deceiving the customer!

Nobody has ever looked at hidden fees and thought they benefited from their existence.

You’d think this would be a fairly cut and dry issue - the countries helping Ukraine wouldn’t like it either if another country started negotiating terms on their behalf (especially not with a monster like Putin).

Ukraine and its people should be the ones to decide their own fate.

I swear people who think otherwise must’ve read David vs. Goliath and sided with the Goliath.

For fuck’s sake, it’s not meant to make money, it’s a public service - it’s literally in the name!

I wish more countries governments would get their head out of their capitalistic arses and understand that the services they run aren’t meant to be profitable - that’s what taxes are meant to be for!

Those who want power should never be given it, and we’re about to prove why