ryandleonard.bsky.social
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The US is going to spend millions naming and renaming shit every Presidency from now on. Awesome.
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What good is a nuclear shelter if one still has to come out of it to a radiated wasteland?
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Totally didn’t see that coming at all. I’m sure the GOP would never do that though, right? It being ‘settled precedent’ and all.
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Another thing that isn’t happening that he will declare victory over after making things worse.
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The problem is they consider all illegal immigrants to be criminals because they are here illegally. So, by their definition, they are in fact deporting ‘criminals’.
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They’re a bit more efficient, but not sure they’re well suited to desert areas. Still multiple kW/hr as far as I know.
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Mainly because they are going to absolutely wreck the roads.
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Honestly tanks are pretty well outdated at this point. Probably should mothball most, if not all, of them.
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The fact that Stephen Miller has any power whatsoever is a testament to how low America has fallen.
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Now if only someone could work on air conditioning that doesn’t consume multiple kW/hr of power.
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Massive waste of money and the absolute last thing and soldier wants to be doing. He has no idea what a pain in the ass this is for the troops involved.
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Hopefully someone has told her what AI is by now.
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Totally agreed on that.
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Given the state of their military and equipment in general, do we even think their nukes still work? Wouldn’t surprise me if their oligarchs ‘maintained’ them in the same way they did their tanks, trucks, etc.
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I get that part, kind of anyway. What I’m trying to figure out who is of Musk/Theil/Gates/Andersson/etc ‘wins’. Do they have like a cage match to the death? A council of tech bros nominates them? Whoever has the highest net wealth? Like functionally how would this work exactly?
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As Greenspan himself admitted back in 2008, he and his fellow disciples of Rand neglected to consider one important factor when dreaming up trickle down- human greed. And here we are. Thanks Ayn.
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It would be one thing if these people were unable to retire for financial reasons, but I rather suspect that isn’t the case for 99.99% of them. It’s absurd for someone in their 70s to still be trying to cling to power. Step aside and let the next gen have a chance- you’ve by and large failed.
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So….no, no, I do not.
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45 years later and zero evidence it works (and a lot that it does not at all) and they’re *still* trying to make trickle down a thing.
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So…how do we select this monarch exactly?
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The problem isn’t that he doesn’t read, it’s that he doesn’t read because he does not care. He has not a single bone of strategy or long-term planning in him- he only cares about appearances and the here and now.
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Most of these people genuinely believed there are hundreds of thousands of MS13-type gang members running around the country (not in *their* area, of course, but others, like Chicago or LA) killing, raping, and plundering. Why they never questioned this is really the problem.
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Businesses can’t even function properly. Most of them are just making up almost arbitrary price increases because they have no idea either.
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Trump ‘announces’ lots of shit. Almost none of it happens. #TACO
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So like pardoning hundreds of people who assaulted police officers while not wanting to even post an already authorized plaque for said police would be what then?
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Spoiler- there were no ‘droves’. They lied to you.
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Ah yes, Joe Biden is ‘vicious’. Said no one but Trump ever. Dude likes ice cream and riding bikes, he’s like anti-vicious.
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He genuinely looks like shit.
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Let’s be honest here- it won’t ever be done or likely even started in any real way.
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I suspect he may be surprised that the oath is to the Constitution and not the President. lol.
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None. By law (and normal SS process) all checks stop at 115 (if they have not already).
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Yeah, tanks and paved roads do not get along.
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It was multiple walls. And land mines. And watch towers. And dogs. And regular patrols. And it still failed occasionally.
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Enlistments have a contractural term. When it’s up, you can either get out or re-enlist (basically sign another contract). Part of the re-enlistment process is saying the oath again- that’s the part I would imagine Trump will do.
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“I would have to get approval of Congress for these tariffs”- yes, Donald, that’s the way it works (or is supposed to). You ‘execute’ laws they pass. Not the other way around.
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It’s *almost* like it’s all bullshit or something. Weird as Trump and his people are well-known for truth and working off facts.
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Foreign students often pay full price and help colleges lower prices for Americans, particularly those not from inherently wealthy families. Huh, I guess that would be bad for the GOP to have educated people from lower income households. Guess it all makes sense now…
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Historically they’re pretty accurate, no?
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‘How dare judges do their job and make judgement on legal questions before them.’
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Problem being the only way to do that is depress the value of existing homes which would have its own set of issues. 2008 was not fun, I’d rather not watch the value of my house plummet in half again. It’s a tough problem with no simple solution.
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The woman with a Communications major from a small New England private school says your kids need to be ‘plumbers and electricians’. Nothing wrong with either at all, but I don’t see her out there fixing toilets or wiring houses.
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And in large part, they are correct. Most voters don’t pay attention to any of this stuff at all. Hell, a good chunk of the country doesn’t even bother to vote.
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There’s a reason reality TV shows took off- people like drama and spectacle. No idea why anyone wants either anywhere near the gov’t, but here we are.
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6,700 seriously annoyed soldiers who had to spend days practicing and cleaning shit for this. And then get the ‘honor’ of standing around in the sun for hours. Soldiers hate parades.
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I mean, they’re not entirely wrong.
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He surrendered to police in his robe? He couldn’t have put some clothes on first?
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Republicans love central planning as long as they are the ones doing it.
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People still work there? Feels like everyone already left.
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Problem- MAGA people don’t care. They view this level of corruption as ‘normal’ in Washington and seem to think Trump is better as at least he does his criming in plain view.
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It’s pretty clear half the country is fine with a moron and borderline lunatic as the President. This isn’t any different than the shit he did last time and people voted, as a majority, for more of it for some dumb fucking reason.