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I vividly recall Trump tweeting out a screenshot during Biden's presidency of the DJIA dropping 800-1000 points due to hot inflation numbers. Other than the screenshot, he just said "The Biden/Harris economy". So, ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Trump/Vance economy:

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We really are living in this timeline right now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq6E...

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This is all, quite clearly, a concerted effort to paint Ukraine as the bad guys and, unfortunately, some 25-50% of Americans will eat it right up and turn on a country that was invaded unprovoked and who has been subjected to unspeakable atrocities.

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I can't help but think there's a fundamental conflict between what the Project 2025 conservatives and the billionaire tech bros each want. Some of their core tenets are mutually exclusive.

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For decades the conservative mantra has been about limited government and freedom above everything. The irony of their current crusade to control everyone and everything isn't lost on me and shouldn't be lost on you.

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In light of the 2024 election, I was recently thinking about what makes a person "good". I've heard from many that manipulating a good person into voting for someone who is and whose policies are immoral doesn't make them a "bad" person but I'm not so sure.

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Saw a post on /r/conservative about how calling Elon a Nazi is insulting to holocaust prisoners. Serious question: if someone talks like a Nazi, propogandizes like a Nazi, salutes like a Nazi, and hangs out with Nazis, is he a Nazi or do we need to wait until he opens concentration camps?

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Musical taste regularly comes up in conversation and when asked about my own, I speak to a wide range but that death metal is my favorite, to which they ask if I listen to Metallica. Yes, when I was 12, but here's one of my favorite songs of all time, re-recorded: www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1xM...

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Fascism funded by shameless, sunlit oligarchy is officially here: www.reddit.com/r/interestin.... Congratulations to all those who voted for this. Enjoy the future you've created.

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Between the crypto scam, the tiktok reinstatement illusion, and the list of (announced) executive orders, a day which should be about remembering the legacy of a great civil rights leader is now a very dark, and irreversibly destructive day in US history. Best of luck to all over the next 2 years.

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Trump has 2 years of unfettered access to do whatever he wants. Should he enact even just most of what he has said he wants to, I'm confident the economy will take a nose dive. If it doesn't, it will be due to the fervent resistance and unrelenting opposition from those who love this country.

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I don't seem to recall "strings and conditions" from democratic lawmakers when hurricane katrina leveled huge swaths of solid red Louisiana nor do I remember much in the way of hoops for Florida's many natural disasters but, hey, maybe that's just me.

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We're just 10 days out from the FO phase after FA. I can't wait to sit back and watch what roughly half of the country voted for unfold. It's going to be equal parts hilarious yet horiffying.

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I had never thought of it this way but this really nails it: www.reddit.com/r/WomenInNew...

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I genuinely feel a very effective way to get sanity back in our discourse and to instill competency in our government is to simply stop covering the incoming administration. All of them. No comedy about them. No talk shows about them. No posts. No blogs. Nothing. Remove all oxygen.

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The free market purists out there insist that private enterprise is the best at doing about anything while, simultaneously, will be just fine with Facebook's decision to remove all fact-checking services. It's telling that the "free market" decided something so blatantly detrimental. Weird, right?

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At a time when dis/misinformation is as bad as it is has ever been in the history of this country, Facebook has decided to let go all fact checkers and deactivate all fact checking services. Just in time for the most prolific liar in US political history to take office.

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I'm not religious but this is spot on. The current brand of Christianity prevalent in the US is no longer congruent with Jesus' teachings. Welcome the immigrant? No. Care for the sick? Absolutely not. "Thoughts and prayers" but f*** you and don't ask me to finance your problems.

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Saw this today and it hits the nail right on the head: "if you want religion in public schools then I want the IRS involved in churches."

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Practically since our nation's founding, money has ruled politics. Most recently it's come via lobbying, campaign funding and back room dealings. With Musk's latest strong-arming of congress, it's now just out in broad daylight. This is what was voted for. Please enjoy the upcoming dystopia.

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Sam Harris openly comparing trans rights and fascism was enough to cement his "enlightened centrism". One of those can and should result in honest, well-intentioned dialogue. The other is literally destroying our country and democracy itself. It's not hard to see which is which.

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The irony of being voted into power largely based on the impression our government is out of touch with the average American only to turn around and appoint not one, not three, but several billionaires into positions of power with two of them running a new "efficiency" department isn't lost on me.

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wired.me/technology/a... But just like Tom Cruise in Minority Report, what happens when members of the current US administration inevitably get flagged?

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Today's conservative platform, on the surface, seems very reasonable to the uneducated because it taps into what they consider to be common sense. For example, consider the Leon's mantra of "Live within your means". Seems reasonable until you stop to think about it.

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I for one look forward to the upcoming, albeit predictable, irony of watching Republican lawmakers, who have for years now desperately fought in defense of Trump, have the opportunity to be the "hero" and curtail some of his destructiveness.

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I'm readying my 2025 bingo card and I think I'll start it off with "wait, we pay the tariffs?" and "nobody wants to work anymore (2025 edition)".

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We're under two months now from our American "find out" phase. Will implementing tariffs on our biggest importers further increase prices on an already strapped citizenry? Will gutting the federal government and rampant deregulation incite economic chaos?

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Extremely accurate and sad.

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When Trump's Treasury Secretary pick says that tariffs aren't inflationary, he may be right on a technicality. While tariffs can eventually lead to inflation, what they do immediately is drive up the cost of your goods. So, make no mistake: you'll soon be paying a lot more for a lot of stuff.

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We, as a country, have to move beyond the status quo of attention-seeking, shock-value hyperbole that we've gotten ourselves into. Politicians have have found that being controversial and outrageous is a net positive for their careers as opposed to sound policy and constructive dialogue.

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It's only a matter of time before Leon sues bluesky or outright tries to get bluesky banned.

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AOC on X saying MTG's nomination to the DOGE subcommittee chair is actually great because she doesn't do anything and it's like giving a kid an unplugged controller has made my morning.

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One can't help but think the withdrawal of a hilariously unqualified and undeserving Gaetz from consideration for AG might be a bait and switch to bring in a different unqualified and undeserving candidate that's only slightly less of liability.

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We all know folks like this. I saw a picture on Reddit the other day I can't find now where some oblivious couple saying "let's all be friends!" was standing between members of discriminated communites on the left and on the right there was a nazi, a KKK member, and one other. No, let's not.

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