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Should be a wild four years.

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Maybe it was a good thing that Woke crushed all our childhood memories under the boot of gender and race politics.

It made us wake up from the dream and face reality...
Idk man, waking up and facing reality for me was seeing that Lon Horiuchi could assassinate Americans and escape consequences

When I get home from work and am trying to relax, I hear kid voices yelling from the next room “Thundercats! HOOOOO”

Legacy intact
 
Thank you, janny. The off topic stuff didn't even reach these levels during boring Biden. Niggas coming out of the woodwork to discuss if it's gay to eat beef while thinking about Z-man.
It took over three years for the Biden thread to hit 10,000 pages. We're 1/4 of the way there after two months. When a thread is going mach chicken there will be off topic stuff more frequently.
 
oh noooo it's habbening. Newsom is lining up soundbites for 2028

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a pioneer for LGBTQ+ rights who decades ago upset leaders in his own party when he defied state law and issued marriage licenses to same-sex couples, suggested Democrats were in the wrong in allowing transgender athletes to participate in female college and youth sports.

“I think it’s an issue of fairness, I completely agree with you on that. It is an issue of fairness — it’s deeply unfair,”

kind of
While Newsom has at times touched on his own concerns about the issue, particularly around youth sports, the remarks on his eponymous new podcast are his most expansive on the topic. He went on to express sympathy for trans people, noting “these poor people” have higher rates of suicide and depression and saying “the way that people talk down to vulnerable communities is an issue that I have a hard time with, as well.”
 
I have a running skitzo theory that the last 5-6 years of US political events, and some international ones, are the result of the institutions who finance the major banks in the world pulling every lever of power they have. They're freaking the fuck out at how trading market Shorts are so over extended, that when the rubberband eventually does snap, the entire global financial market will crumble. The financial stability of most of the major markets around the world is essentially Wil-E-Coyote in that moment when he runs off the cliff and before gravity takes hold.

There's even a part of me that thinks that Trump getting his second term had more to do with trying to salvage the very pillars of the nation because if this happened under a second Biden or Harris administration, round about half the country would be burnt to the ground by MAGA/Trump/Conservatives. If it happens under Trump, the social uprising might be lessened because of the thrall.
 
Newsom so blatantly wanting to run is why I think it was stupid of Kirk to go on his podcast. You don't help the enemy out, let them flounder. You tell them to just keep doing what they're doing and replay "yassssss kweeeeeen" to everything they say.

Vance will fuck up Newsom I am sure of that, this is the folly of the dilly daly meme, Vance is wholesome chungus and Newsom is still Patrick Bateman. Even that gay ass Meatball vs. Newsom debate from two years ago showed Newsom is an empty suit, and the old Carolla Show interview where Newsom sounds like an idiot for an hour will make the rounds again in a more receptive environment following the fires and failures of California.
 
Well, he’s a fag and so are his fanboys, so I think you’re onto something

In other news. it looks like we’re buying up Switzerland’s gold bullion

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My chink husband is going to lose his mind when I whisper " I told you so...." for the third time in 5 years

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You know the cringe theater kids who got way too involved whenever a teacher decided to put improv/roleplay into a class activity back in high school?
They went on to become DNC staffers.
A lot of these now-adults were literal theater kids way back in what the kids now call "the day." There are people I went to high school and college with, who were theater kids, and - thinking back on it - the writing was on the wall. Some of them are now in semi-prestigious positions, but most are not, and spend inordinate amounts of time sperging about Trump and consooming.
 
I have a running skitzo theory that the last 5-6 years of US political events, and some international ones, are the result of the institutions who finance the major banks in the world pulling every lever of power they have. They're freaking the fuck out at how trading market Shorts are so over extended, that when the rubberband eventually does snap, the entire global financial market will crumble. The financial stability of most of the major markets around the world is essentially Wil-E-Coyote in that moment when he runs off the cliff and before gravity takes hold.

There's even a part of me that thinks that Trump getting his second term had more to do with trying to salvage the very pillars of the nation because if this happened under a second Biden or Harris administration, round about half the country would be burnt to the ground by MAGA/Trump/Conservatives. If it happens under Trump, the social uprising might be lessened because of the thrall.
You had me until the end.

The ruling class is funded lavishly by imaginary money that they hire wizards to summon onto paper.

Even if we weren’t a fractional reserve system, everything suffers from entropy except for the numbers you type in a computer. All the goods and services money represents break down and stop existing. Debt is forever

So what do democrats do? They spend a couple decades convincing everyone that Keynesian economics means debt is actually money and everyone should leverage themselves to the max

They were promoting slavery
 
I wonder how easy of an opposition he will be. What are the plausible excuses he can use for the state of San Fran, the wildfires, closing Diablo Canyon etc?
-He was mayor of SF in the 00's, when the city was flourishing, then he took up shop in Sacramento and it wasn't his direct responsibility anymore
-Climate change obviously caused the wildfires
-Umm excuse me Japan is still dealing with the fallout of Fukushima, why would we keep an expensive, old nuclear plant operating on a notorious fault line while there are homeless in our streets and rail lines to build? We can just put more wind farms in the Coachella valley and solar farms out in the Mojave.

It's not that hard to whitewash his cons, at least for his base. For swing voters, much more of a mixed bag.
 
-He was mayor of SF in the 00's, when the city was flourishing, then he took up shop in Sacramento and it wasn't his direct responsibility anymore
-Climate change obviously caused the wildfires
-Umm excuse me Japan is still dealing with the fallout of Fukushima, why would we keep an expensive, old nuclear plant operating on a notorious fault line while there are homeless in our streets and rail lines to build? We can just put more wind farms in the Coachella valley and solar farms out in the Mojave.

It's not that hard to whitewash his cons, at least for his base. For swing voters, much more of a mixed bag.
Hit him for going to China and trying to import BYD EVs.
 
We need Space Mexicans, my dude

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MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace politicizes a young boy fighting cancer.

“I hope he never has to defend the United States capitol against Donald Trump's supporters.”

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I wonder if this is connected to Baron's time machine, and then he becomes Cornpop, too
The only good anime is DBZ Abridged
Speedy Dub DBZ >>>>>>>>>> Abridged
 
I thought chinks value gold, culturally? Like, it's a yearly gift for Chinese new years?
He was raised in Norway and his family doesn't hold that much beyond jewellery. They genuinely trust the Norwegian government to the point I had to turn on the waterworks for him to not take the vax and threaten break up if he gets electric car and doesn't wait for few years " to refine the technology " ( it was bs excuse but it worked) in reality it was a fad and would never work . Every couple of years the western world goes through this eco bs whether or not is solar panels ( in Norway!) Ethanol as gas, etc etc

Third time baby , third time.
 
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