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Should be a wild four years.

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but our god & savior
Mr.rogers said PBS was safe like the postal service they can do no wrong.
That's because PBS funded the entirety of his show, as well as Sesame Street, Captain Kangaroo, Reading Rainbow, Electric Company, Zoom, and many other children's shows. They still carry a lot of children's shows today. Mr. Rogers knew what side his bread was buttered on. If it weren't for PBS, Mr. Roger's Neighborhood wouldn't have existed.
Hot take: Bernie became a phenomenon largely for shallow aesthetic reasons like Sargon did. Like how the marks thought Carl of Applebees was smart because of his pompous British accent, Bernie’s GRUFF NOO YAWKUH shtick made people think he was a working class Joe who tells it like it is. There’s never been much substance behind anything he’s done.
I remember exactly how and why Bernie came to the public consciousness.

All the way back in 2010, Bernie Sanders took exception to a proposed tax bill, which was ironically introduced by Joe Biden. Bernie proceeded to filibuster, with no bathroom breaks, no food, standing at the podium, being fucking ancient, for 8 1/2 straight hours, until the time on Biden's bill ran out. People were impressed by this performance, and clips of his filibuster went viral.

Now we know that filibustering is dogshit and totally haram, but 2010 was a different time.
If you could go back in time and show Andrew Jackson what has become of the party he helped create he would probably start trying to hit you with a cane right then and there.
He would let you have some of his cheese though.
 
It's funny how Mexico obeyed Trump's command like a dog and the TDS crowd is now all "LOL what a clown! Trump already backed down! RETARD!"
Bro, he pretty much got everything he wanted in like a weekend because Mexico knows how absolutely fucking rooted they would be if they even tried to posture up to America.
What an L for the Orange Man, he only flexed on some niggas and got what he wanted.
Same thing will happen with Canada, very soon, I suggest. China will take longer.

The issues are Fentanyl and border security. Mexico's going to deploy troops to address those. Canada will end up deploying manpower to do the same. China will need to shut the fentanyl tap.

If China REALLY doesn't want to play, we'll just tell them their vessels plying the world's oceans can no longer expect protection by the US Navy. The Chinese Navy has almost no blue-water capability.
 
Is it far too early to ask who the Dems could possibly run in 2028?
Newsom and booker will run, i'm sure there will be others, basically its like the 2020 primary every interest group will run their preferred "champion" and we'll have 20 fucking weirdos to chose from. there will probably be a gay and a couple women and a celebrity and a billionaire and tons of other freaks. don't worry about it. nothing is set in stone until super tuesday so literally 3 years from now you still won't be able to guess who's going to be on the ballot come november.

honestly thats the whole reason the primaries are fun and why one-party nations have so much more interesting histories. because instead of individual parties like you have in say a parliamentary system, you have 25 different flavors of the same basic ideas all duking it out like their lives depend on it and thats because in some cases it literally does. especially with how shallow the pool is now for democrats expect a lot more "unknowns" as well. sanders/warren/bloomberg/obama are all too old to try and run again. it will be entirely the post-2008 class trying to run, with only one or two "elder statesmen" besides Newsome trying to get the nom.

Autism is a powerful weapon but it needs to be focused. It's how KF has been able to dox people out of fucking doorknobs and cake.
imagine if Musk didn't sperg out in december, everyone here would love him as much as people on this site loved Nick Rekeita (in 2022)
 
I have no idea. Certainly not Harris. Only hope the Dems have is to nominate someone competent, who isn't crazy, and is basically middle-of-the-road. Maybe Fetterman. Over the last year he's shown himself to put country first before the party. Not sure how his physical limitations would factor in, though. Otherwise, cannot think of any Dem who is Presidential material.

But Newsom? Fuck, NO! I've shit thing smarter than that fuckwagon.
Fetterman, who has literal brain damage, is the best choice to lead the Democratic Party. I really want that to sink in.
 
The ACA may have worsened the issue of insurance overcharging but don't say that it wasn't a problem before Obama. Your anecdotal experience doesn't reflect the country.
Except it was better, it was better for literally the entire country except the geriatric and people with forever illnesses. Obama even pitched it at as making "the young and healthy pay their fair share". The problem is you faggots don't understand that prior to ACA, the insurance industry was literally ANIME SUCKS COPENSEETHING eternally over the fact 20-30 year olds weren't buying their shitty insurance. They were literally fucking malding over it. They were frothing at their mouths and bloodthirsty over that decade long market they could never get. All of the biggest insurance premiums tried everything to get that market demographic because it was worth billions and they couldn't do it. That's why ACA puts you on your parents insurance until you're 26. They decided ultimately, fuck it. We'll just force your parents to buy insurance for you. We'll also force you to have insurance at literal gunpoint.

The ACA is a giant fucking scam and there is no defending it.
 
imagine if Musk didn't sperg out in december, everyone here would love him as much as people on this site loved Nick Rekeita (in 2022)
Oh he is a sperg, he can be a very bad one. Trump has lolcow tendencies, JD Vance has some things here and there about his past, JFK Jr. used to be a drug addict.

I don't have to like the dudes, I just have to like the work they do. It's like the easiest way to detect a Redditor, it's either 1 or 0.
be careful reddit because might get trump & elon on you
TLDR: they found the rum & gold
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KF lost CloudFlare for one fucking post.
 
The root cause of this is the simple fact that SJWs and Liberals in general are literally incapable of forming a theory of mind for centrists (normal people) and especially 'conservatives'. That is to say, that can't see the situation from another viewpoint even as a purely intellectual exercise. Worse than that, they can't even conceptualize having any viewpoint that isn't their own.

This has been demonstrated through some interesting studies where people were sorted into Liberal, Moderates and Conservative groups. They were given a moral question survey, and asked to complete it three times; once honestly as themselves, then again as if they belonged to the other groups. Moderates and Conservatives were pretty accurate at predicting how the others would answer, but the Liberals were completely off base for both.

As a group they cannot conceive of a "theory of mind" for conservative people. They are unable to even fathom that people can think in ways they do not. Hence their inability to consider that anyone thinks differently or has other moral codes. Not just American conservatives, either, this also accounts for why they are so incredulous about, for example, 'migrants' not respecting the law and raping women and robbing and such. The Radicals simply can't imagine that a Somali-raised brain holds a different worldview.
Conservatives also cant build a theory of mind for Liberals.

They keep thinking they believe in the things they say and are working off some kind of first principals beyond "what is most beneficial to me and my group at this moment?".

The stupid conservative fucks actually think they care about the tenets of Islam, or being racist is bad for the reasons they say, or care about equal rights, or care about the environment in any way.
 
This whole USAID debacle is so much FUN!

Many of the "career" class is really really mad, and I love it.
Mitwits are going muh charity, muh grain to starving africans. How could trump do this, it's terrible, he hates poor people and he's making it illegal to be poor or help the poor.

They're so brainwashed the cannot comprehend that
A: The goverment is not making it illegal to be poor or help poor,
B: The government is not doing these things for the benefit of the poor and destitute, but to enrich and empower themselves
C: Nothing is stopping you from personally donating time/money to help those you find worthy of need
D: The government and bureaucrats are actually evil using the cloak of random "good works" to allow them to actively destroy the world
 
Conservatives also cant build a theory of mind for Liberals.

They keep thinking they believe in the things they say and are working off some kind of first principals beyond "what is most beneficial to me and my group at this moment?".

The stupid conservative fucks actually think they care about the tenets of Islam, or being racist is bad for the reasons they say, or care about equal rights, or care about the environment in any way.
Theory of mind for liberals:

Insecure, need to feel more normal than regular normal, believes what teachers tell them
 
Your influence is dead, gone. Trump killed it.
Nigger this is what I want. Control over whatever 3rd world shithole you live in isn't worth what we pay for it. Sorry your economy is going to collapse and whatever faggot supporting NGO you work for is shutting down, but not my problem. Good luck. Have fun.
 
Mitwits are going muh charity, muh grain to starving africans. How could trump do this, it's terrible, he hates poor people and he's making it illegal to be poor or help the poor.

They're so brainwashed the cannot comprehend that
A: The goverment is not making it illegal to be poor or help poor,
B: The government is not doing these things for the benefit of the poor and destitute, but to enrich and empower themselves
C: Nothing is stopping you from personally donating time/money to help those you find worthy of need
D: The government and bureaucrats are actually evil using the cloak of random "good works" to allow them to actively destroy the world
They also don't know that the governments in Africa just keep the money for themselves. How do they not wonder why despite getting money for decades these countries still have a shit infrastructure and their people wear hand me downs from other countries.
 
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