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Should be a wild four years.

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My jaw just dropped. I think I figured the whole thing out; it's a reboot of the American Civil War.

We have an underclass of uneducated pariahs who provide our menial labor and who are exploited at every turn. First, it was slaves. Now, it's illegal immigrants.

We have very clear Confederacy vs. Union 2.0 borders already drawn for us.

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We have two rival factions: Republicans and Democrats. They hate each other, and tensions have been rising for decades. All sorts of assaults, violence and venom being spat at both sides.

In the first Civil War, a key problem was the one of Free States vs. Slave States. If Trump annexes Canada and/or Greenland, making new states, do those states tolerate or eradicate illegal immigrant labor?

We have a controversial president who was involved with the wrestling industry. He is determined to preserve the Union and solve the slave problem, but not for the slaves' sake. He was shot in the head. Trump is Lincoln 2.0.

We have people talking about illegal secession(Calexit, Western States Pact, New England Independence Movement).

The only silver lining is that we know the New Confederacy has to lose and with it, the Democrat Party.
Annexing Canada is just him trolling, or I hope it is. If Canadians suddenly become Americans guess which political party wins forever?

I agree otherwise, I've been saying for a long time the future of this country is balkanization, there are simply too many irreconcilable differences between the parties and things keep getting more and more volatile. The only question is how much will people actually care if Civil War 2 happens, people are much more comfortable these days than in the 1860s.
 
I never understood how people that got hired because of their gender or race could be proud of their employment.
I’m not Jewish, black, Irish, Indian, a Gypsy, Romanian, German, but I think it might be because you basically are scamming someone out of money. Like a lot of money. You have to respect the hustle a little bit.
 
Since all the DEI hires are in the process of getting shitcanned, let's check in on one of America's most prolific (now unemployed) DEI hires

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As she continues to disappear from the public, I have to admit that I'll miss seeing Kamala embarrass herself, the Democratic Party, and everything they stand for.
 
there are simply too many irreconcilable differences between the parties and things keep getting more and more volatile
A large part of this was how fucking shitty the country got under Biden, it raised tensions cause people were having issues buying basic necessities

If Trump brings prosperity like lots of people hope, it will become brutally difficult to claim he's a bad president and that Biden was better
 
My jaw just dropped. I think I figured the whole thing out; it's a reboot of the American Civil War.

We have an underclass of uneducated pariahs who provide our menial labor and who are exploited at every turn. First, it was slaves. Now, it's illegal immigrants.

We have very clear Confederacy vs. Union 2.0 borders already drawn for us.

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We have two rival factions: Republicans and Democrats. They hate each other, and tensions have been rising for decades. All sorts of assaults, violence and venom being spat at both sides.

In the first Civil War, a key problem was the one of Free States vs. Slave States. If Trump annexes Canada and/or Greenland, making new states, do those states tolerate or eradicate illegal immigrant labor?

We have a controversial president who was involved with the wrestling industry. He is determined to preserve the Union and solve the slave problem, but not for the slaves' sake. He was shot in the head. Trump is Lincoln 2.0.

We have people talking about illegal secession(Calexit, Western States Pact, New England Independence Movement).

The only silver lining is that we know the New Confederacy has to lose and with it, the Democrat Party.
Eh. Trump bought us a few more years. He might even prevent it if all goes well. If we were under any Dem, then yes, this scenario would be the result of their governance.
 
Since all the DEI hires are in the process of getting shitcanned, let's check in on one of America's most prolific (now unemployed) DEI hires

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As she continues to disappear from the public, I have to admit that I'll miss seeing Kamala embarrass herself, the Democratic Party, and everything they stand for.
She should be nicer to Doug gods greatest hype-man couldn't have carried her ass to the white house
 
This is tough because Republicans suck at this, but this is how Political Patronage works:
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You reward your friends and supporters, they stay your friends and supporters. It's why so many city governments are filled with useless sheboons who don't do anything. They're not there to do any thing, the make work job is the pay off their community gets for staying loyal.
If I could get right wingers to force one thing through their thick fucking skulls it would be this. So sick of autists who think government is like a sim game where you just have to tweek and optimize everything to run as efficiently as possible. In the real world, you can have the best ideas and be the best leader in the world but it won't mean shit unless you can get power and hold onto it - that's the hard part. And it involved sinecures, patting people's back after they pat yours, coalition building, compromise, influence networks, and therefore waste and some degree of corruption. The beautiful loser mentality is such a plague on right wing thought.
 
If Trump brings prosperity like lots of people hope, it will become brutally difficult to claim he's a bad president and that Biden was better
Maybe if they're already fence-sitting types, but the leftists will just call him a misogynist, racist, transphobe Nazi who only cares about big business profits and billionaires like they always do. All the objective economic measures in the world won't change that.
 
They either don't have the cognitive ability to understand that achieving something without merit is empty or they cope by insisting to themselves that they could have gotten the job anyways.
They might also not have the cognitive ability to understand merit in the first place. You need to ask yourself questions in order for these thoughts to occur to you. I've seen some of these people get tutored and something you'll often notice is a near-total lack of critical thought.

There was an assignment where a black girl was asked to write about cultural appropriation, and one of the requirements was to touch on why a particular white musician might want to mimic aspects of black music and fashion.

She was unable to understand the question. She knew it was "bad" and that it was "oppression", because that's what she'd been told, but was totally unable to put herself in another's mind.

It seemed as though she was un-used to synthesizing her own answers; she was trying to find the answer in memory, as though it must be one fact out of an explicit list of facts she'd been given.

There are many, many people in the world—of all races—with little to no capacity for serious reflection or analysis. Illiteracy makes this worse, and a lot of America isn't fully literate.

Illiterates don't dissect the foundations of their beliefs, and this is because those beliefs are mnemonicially encoded—analysis would threaten all knowledge. These aren't typically people who ask questions in the same way that we do.

A lot of simple people believe horrible things with absolutely no malice, and it's because they're just doing their best by memorizing slogans given to them by people who are supposed to be helping.
 
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Since all the DEI hires are in the process of getting shitcanned, let's check in on one of America's most prolific (now unemployed) DEI hires

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As she continues to disappear from the public, I have to admit that I'll miss seeing Kamala embarrass herself, the Democratic Party, and everything they stand for.
So did Doug end up sleeping with the next president on 1/20 or?
 
Annexing Canada is just him trolling, or I hope it is. If Canadians suddenly become Americans guess which political party wins forever?

I agree otherwise, I've been saying for a long time the future of this country is balkanization, there are simply too many irreconcilable differences between the parties and things keep getting more and more volatile. The only question is how much will people actually care if Civil War 2 happens, people are much more comfortable these days than in the 1860s.
Globalists vs nationalists.
 
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White, brown, gay, straight, whatever; get your ass to work on making this place the best and quit telling me about how the homeland you left is so much better. Just go the fuck back if that's the case and quit using us as a rest stop while my policymakers use you as political tools to police me.
that's the problem you treat this country like an economic zone if you're not a descendant of the freed slaves someone who helped us build the railroads the Chinaman go away back to whatever rice paddy or whatever country you crawled out of.

especially if your cow poop worshiper Windows Woodward shipping doesn't dwelling goat sodomizes
 
If they had just acted rationally about him and in interacting with him a decade ago none of this would be happening. You know they could’ve easily misled him into signing very 1-sided “compromises” that mainly benefited the swamp but give lip service to Trump’s ideas back in 2017. Instead they made the most powerful president in generations. Probably the biggest own goal tracing back to one man since Germany sent Lenin to Russia.
 
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