uncle bernard

Extremely common, maybe even the norm, to see the knee braces in college. Usually preventative. They lose them in the NFL because they can’t afford the reduction in speed.

Well, she said she would weaponize the Justice Department to go after Trump's enemies. Don't like that. She also took a $25k donation from Trump while Trump University was being investigated for fraud and didn't pursue a lawsuit afterwards (@mspart this is how the real deep state works). And she's a registered foreign agent for Qatar and a partner at Washington's most powerful lobbying firm (again, this is the actual deep state). She will be your typical corrupt bureaucrat.

This happens every time. It's just name recognition.

They're actually going after Trump for this, not Wiles. One of his central promises was to "drain the swamp" and he's stacking his cabinet with lobbying insiders and fellow billionaires. Now, anybody with a brain knew he wasn't going to drain the swamp. He is the swamp. But that is why you're seeing articles pointing out that Wiles has an extensive lobbyist background for tobacco interests. You shouldn't be able to say this: “You have to stop listening to lobbyists,” Mr. Trump said in an interview with the podcaster Theo Von in August. “You know, I was not a big person for lobbyists, and if they have even a little access to a president or a senator or a congressman or woman,” he added, “they get a lot of money, and in some cases they just take the money, they don’t do anything.” and then pick a lobbyist for Chief of Staff.

Well, right on cue lol

It's crazy that the right whined that someone who spent 20 years as a prosecutor, was a senator, then VP was somehow "unqualified" to be president and then they turn around and cheer when their daddy picks the wife of the founder of the WWE, who has been investigated multiple times for her involvement with steroid and sexual abuse scandals. Imagine if the dems had nominated an MSNBC host who's been accused of sexual assault and cheated on both his wives to be the Secretary of Defense.... Or a guy who caused a measles outbreak in Samoa and believes HIV is fake to head up HHS? Or a guy under investigation for statutory rape and sex trafficking to be Attorney General? (who also might have killed someone during a homosexual auto-erotic asphyxiation incident in college which was then covered up by his dad - this story has been out there for years, well before Gaetz was a national figure). Imagine claiming Trump was anti-war and then he picks Marco Rubio as Sec of State and a guy who openly advocates for bombing Iran as Defense. It's a joke.

I have zero posts in that thread. But if I did, I would still probably mock you because you replace braindead mainstream press with even more braindead right-wing propaganda. MSNBC is a joke. Fox, OAN, [insert right wing twitter celebrity], etc... are even stupider.

Rich people having lunch with rich people. It's a big club and you ain't in it.

Pot calling the kettle black

This is just make-work so those two weirdos stop bothering him. They'll get bored and we'll all move on.

If Gaetz is confirmed, will they still let schools tour the building?

Picking a credibly accused pedophile for AG is not making me feel better about Trump's past ties with Epstein.

Again, you've missed the point of the joke. He created a new department to improve efficiency and put two people in charge, which is....inherently inefficient.

You guys are putting on a clinic in missing the point.

100% props. When we had that discussion, the early signaling from the campaign was she was going to distance herself from Biden and lean into a more populist message with Walz. Unfortunately, they backed down from that track after a week or two and I think that ended the race right there.

Trump himself is not anti-vax, one of his better qualities. But he's supposedly promised control of the health agencies to RFK, who is extremely anti-vax.

Whether you want to believe it or not, his economic plan carries significant risk for worsening inflation and tanking the GDP. His tax plan will also add trillions to the deficit. That's worrisome to me. Also, I value a lot of the regulation/departments he wants to cut. I like clean drinking water. I like clean air. I like people being vaccinated against preventable diseases. I like fluoride in the water because I like when people have all their teeth. Now, if RFK wants to take the poison out of our food, I'm all for it, but I have a feeling that's not going to happen. I worry about the continued blank check to Israel to escalate war in the middle east and I worry about his judgment on foreign affairs in general. I worry about a women's right to choose and women dying from preventable miscarriages/dangerous births. I worry about access to contraceptives and other reproductive healthcare. Has anyone asked him how he plans to deport 20 million people? Is the military going door to door asking for papers? Because that's also pretty scary to me. Ultimately, I'm not living my life organized around fear. I'm still going to keep doing what I'm doing. But I don't think the world is headed in a good direction and that saddens me.

"News" It's likely propaganda if China is feeding it to you. I thought Trumpers were anti-China?

That's what they want you to think

Why are you getting all your news from a source owned and controlled by the Chinese Communist Party?

People were way more fired up in 2020 on the Dem side. There was widespread apathy amongst democrats, who were rightly dissatisfied with the Biden administration. Harris had an initial excitement bump, but then she kept on all of Biden's people and they told her and Walz to tone it down and the whole thing fizzled.

The media was obviously wrong about record vote turnout or else we're missing millions of votes (which would point to the Republicans stealing the election, which I don't think happened). As for 2020, think about how insane that situation was. Trump was a historically unpopular and polarizing president and then a massive pandemic broke out and tanked the world economy and killed hundreds of thousands of people. So yeah, people were pissed at him and motivated to vote against him.