General Politics XII World • Page 351

yeah, for me personally, I can't blame the media for this one

that's on me

I drank the liberal Democrat Kool Aid for far, far too long

 

I feel like being a vaguely libertarian style conservative (but really having absolutely no clue what I actually believed) as a teenager made the transition into lib hating communist a lot more smooth than if I had been a liberal Democratic Party dead ender

 

I was a loyal Dem who thought they’d do the right thing if they only could until the 2016 election, and then thought they were capable of being commandeered until like 2020. Reaching these realizations takes a lot of us a lot of time, and it’s good to come by it naturally.

In labor organizing, no one is a better organizer than a shitty boss. In this instance, no one is better at radicalizing you than the Dems themselves.

 

pleaaase keep Trump away from the commander format panel

 

I remember when I was 17 I said something vaguely pro-gun ownership on ap and got absolutely ripped to shreds over it lol. I’m now vaguely pro-gun again but in a very, very different way

 

I want to buy a gun and teach my daughter how to handle & shoot it properly, but my wife said she would divorce me and make sure I never see the kids again if I bought one

 

I 100% do not recommend getting a gun if you have a kid

 

I know. I told her I wouldn't buy one.

I know the data & statistics, but also I think I am smarter than everyone else and that data & statistics don't apply to me

 

famous last words

 

he's such an idiot, painfully stupid, painfully rich, and it makes me so angry every time he hangs his ass out there again

 

like holy mother of .... wait why am i reading twitter

 

this is why we're all still coming back here 24 years on

 

I disagree with the sentiment that we can hope for this cabinet's ineptitude. I think this woukd be a repetition of hopes and thoughts at least i had during the first term. We all knew trump was evil, but he was constantly underestimated because of his stupidity and weird camarilla. Focusing on the obvious ineptitude sort of trivializes how evil they are.

Stupid or not, they will do a lot of fucking damage.

 

I think people were just saying both our options support genocide it seems like it might be reasonable to draw a line finally, but cool that you would just ignore the whole genocide thing which is happening right now and has been for the past year without trump in power. And I did plug my nose and vote Kamala but I have a little empathy for people my country is currently causing death and mass suffering to so I wouldn’t rub someone’s nose in the dirt for choosing to sit out voting for that.

 

The ineptitude of the last administration really hamstrung their efforts and there actually wasn’t that much lasting terrible stuff. The Supreme Court during Biden’s term passed more sweeping right wing laws than the Trump admin. I think these jokers are even worse so I expect a lot of successful fights and tying things up for four years. Being optimistic today though, of course the Supreme Court or congress could quickly make things much more bleak and let these people run wild

 

Ok we got Treasury, HHS, Commerce, Interior, Energy, Transportation, HUD, Labor, Education, and VA left for the major department cabinet positions.

I have heard Linda McMahon for Commerce and Doug Burgam for Energy are basically shoe-ins. I think we are all expecting RFK for HHS.

Have also read that Ben Carson is likely gonna be HUD secretary again.

 

Carson wrote the housing portion of Project 2025 so that would track.

 

Revealing too much about my hick background, but I grew up hunting with guns and bows every year until high school when sports took over my free time, I had my concealed carry license in MO, and I still would never own or keep a gun in the house.

 

bragging about being a high school athlete as an adult is worse than gun violence there's a Bruce Springsteen song about it and everything

 

I keep reading & hearing that he wants to privatize the VA, which I'm keeping an eye on seeing as how I work there