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We are currently witnessing the rise of a new 'Digital Amish' i.e people who refuse to interact with any form of technology made after 2021.

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100% confirm.

I'm driving a rented car for work this week. It's a 2025 Chevy Traverse. Not a single engineer was involved in making this car. It's one of the worst cars I think I've ever driven.

The gear shift is on the steering wheel where the windshield wiper control arm would be normally.

Shifting requires pulling in that bar and then moving it up or down. To put it in Park, you press a button on the tip of it.

The parking break is also a button. But it doesn't work unless the car engine is on. The car engine turns on by also pushing a button.

Windshield wipers? Button press. Windshield wipers plus cleaning fluid? Same button, but press it harder.

You want to adjust the treble or bass of the music you're listening to? You can ONLY do that when the Radio is on. Then turn it off. Then switch to Spotify, etc for added Bass.

Near collision detection? It's got the normal lights that light up. But it ALSO has a rumble pack in the driver's chair that vibrates the left or right side of your balls if something is near that side of the car. How near? Someone walking by it on the sidewalk triggered it when I was at a stop sign, and literally jostled my nuts for 20 seconds.

This car literally sexually assaults you during near collisions.

Which I guess might be great if you're suicidal and want to nut while almost dying.

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These past few years have been very illuminating

Don't forget Bernie.

DNC had the same exact response. With the same exact Trump.

Took the DNC ten fucking years to pull their head out of their ass long enough to complain about young men populism being the key to victory, despite literally pissing away all the young men populism voters they had with Bernie Sanders.

Thank fuck it's now blatantly obvious with Zohran.

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Trump Brazenly Preyed On Me as Epstein Watched: Model

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  • Weinstein
  • Diddy
  • Cosby
  • Dan Shneider
  • Danny Masterson

All these guys got a pass for quite some time, all because they worked on having an image so pure the public would defend it for them. Trump has entire news stations doing that for him.

You think police listen to claims that people with a good public image are secretly sexual deviants? No. They don't. Especially if they're powerful. The person making the claim is a nobody. What are the chances they're telling the truth? They have evidence? No they don't, the police believe your evidence is probably fake so you can grift money.

Now imagine you hear that after you were taken advantage of, and tried to report it. And you hear it everytime you try to report it.

You want justice? First step is getting anyone to even listen when your accusations rock the boat. Doesn't matter the boat is built of lies and bullshit, you're still rocking it.

Everyone I listed above has dozens of allegations against them. Yet they got away with it for years. Mostly because each single voice was individually seperated and buried so they could never group together for the strength needed for actual justice.

The question you should be asking is: Why aren't we listening to the allegations of EVERY individual when a new person comes forward?

Why is every new claim presented as something new by the media? Why are the consensus of voices saying the same thing downplayed as "dozens of others" instead of looked at with the slightest bit of credibility?

You want to listen to this new claim about Trump? Cool, let's first hear from everyone else to see if the same things line up:

  • Jill Harth, who worked with Trump in the 1990s, accused him of “attempted rape” in a 1997 complaint. She said that in 1993, Trump tried to kiss her in his daughter’s bedroom at his Mar-a-Lago resort, pushing her against a wall and putting his hand up her dress.

  • Jessica Leeds told The New York Times in 2016 that, in the late 1970s, Trump, who was a stranger to her, reached his hand up her skirt and grabbed her breasts on a flight to New York. She said he “was like an octopus” and his “hands were everywhere” before she fled to the back of the plane.

  • Kristin Anderson, a photographer and former model, told The Washington Post in 2016 that Trump sat next to her at a nightclub in the early 1990s and reached under her skirt. Anderson said the incident lasted about 30 seconds, but she and her friends were “very grossed out and weirded out.” 

  • Ivana Trump, Trump’s first wife, accused him in a divorce deposition of raping her in a fit of rage in 1989, when they were married.

  • Five former Miss Teen USA contestants told BuzzFeed News in 2016 that in 1997, Trump, the owner of the pageant at the time, unexpectedly walked into the contestants’ dressing room while they were changing, Victoria Hughes said that it was “the most inappropriate time to meet us all for the first time. The youngest girl was 15, and I was the eldest at 19.” The other three women described a similar situation to BuzzFeed anonymously.

  • E. Jean Carroll, a writer, said Trump raped her in 1996 in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room. Carroll wrote about the incident in her 2019 memoir called “What Do We Need Men For?” In May 2023, Carroll was awarded $5 million after a jury held Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation.

  • Temple Taggart, former Miss Utah, told The New York Times in 2016 that Trump “kissed me directly on the lips” when he met her at the 1997 Miss USA pageant and again when she met with him in Manhattan after he offered to help with her modeling career. Taggart described the incident as “inappropriate” and said her first thought after he kissed her was, “Oh my God, gross.” 

  • Cathy Heller told The Guardian in 2016 that Trump forcibly kissed her when she attended a Mother’s Day brunch at Mar-a-Lago in the 1990s. Heller said she was “angry and shaken” after the former president ignored her handshake, grabbed her and went for the lips and became angry when she tried to turn her head away. 

  • Amy Dorris, a former model, said Trump forcibly kissed and groped her in his private box at the U.S. Open tennis championship in 1997. Dorris told The Guardian in 2020 that Trump “shoved his tongue down my throat” and “his hands were very gropey and all over my butt, my breasts, my back, everything.” 

  • Karena Virginia, a yoga instructor and life coach, told The Washington Post in 2016 that Trump groped her, unexpectedly wrapping his arm around her and touching her breast, in 1998 while she waited for a car outside the U.S. Open.

  • Karen Johnson, who was a regular at Mar-a-Lago, said Trump pulled her behind a tapestry to kiss and grope her during a New Year’s Eve party in the early 2000s. Johnson detailed the incident to journalists Barry Levine and Monique El-Faizy, who published it in their 2019 book, “All the President’s Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator,” aalong with 42 other allegations of sexual misconduct.

  • Bridget Sullivan, another former Miss USA contestant, told BuzzFeed News in 2016 that she met Trump at a party promoting the competition, and he hugged her “a little low on your back” and gave “a squeeze that your creepy uncle would.” In a separate instance in 2000, Sullivan said, Trump walked backstage while many of the contestants were naked or getting dressed.

  • Tasha Dixon, a former Miss USA contestant, told CBS in 2016 that, in 2001, Trump walked into where she and other contestants were changing. Dixon said she thought Trump “owned the pageant for the reasons to utilize his power to get around beautiful women."

  • Natasha Stoynoff, a former reporter for People magazine, wrote in 2016 that Trump sexually assaulted her in 2005 while she was visiting Mar-a-Lago to work on a story about his first year of marriage with Melania. When they were alone, Stoynoff said, Trump closed the door and pushed her against the wall before “forcing his tongue down my throat.” 

  • Juliet Huddy, a former Fox News anchor, said on the “Mornin!!! With Bill Schulz” podcast in 2017 that Trump kissed her unexpectedly and without her consent in Trump Tower in the mid-2000s. Huddy said she “didn’t feel threatened” at the time but later realized she would’ve said no more clearly. 

  • Rachel Crooks, a former receptionist at Trump Tower, told The New York Times in 2016 that Trump kissed her “directly on the mouth” without consent when she first met him in 2005. 

  • Samantha Holvey, a former Miss USA contestant, told CNN in 2016 that when she competed in 2006, Trump personally inspected each contestant, looking at them from head to toe like “sexual objects,” which made her feel “the dirtiest I felt in my entire life.” 

  • Ninni Laaksonen, a model and former Miss Finland, in 2016 told Ilta-Sanomat, a Finnish newspaper, that Trump squeezed her butt in 2006 when they were backstage at the “Late Show with David Letterman.” 

  • Jessica Drake, an actor in adult films, accused Trump during a 2016 news conference of grabbing her, kissing her without her consent and offering her $10,000 to come to his penthouse hotel room in 2006. 

  • Summer Zervos, a former contestant on “The Apprentice,” told reporters at a 2016 news conference that Trump sexually assaulted her on two separate occasions in 2007. The first was when she met him and he kissed her on the lips. Later that year, Zervos said Trump grabbed her shoulder, kissed her “aggressively,” placed his hand on her breast and thrust himself on her before she was able to pull away and leave the room. 

  • Cassandra Searles, a former Miss USA contestant, wrote in a 2016 Facebook post that Trump “continually grabbed my ass and invited me to his hotel room” when she competed in 2013. 

If you've read this far, hopefully the similar stories make it obvious what kind of creep Trump is around women.

He isn't in jail, because every woman that comes forward is doubted instead of compared to all the rest that came before them.

That is why predators like him and the others I listed keep doing it: they've created an environment in which they can always get away with it no matter how many people come forward.

https://19thnews.org/2023/10/donald-trump-associates-sexual-misconduct-allegations/

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Trump says inflation is 'defeated' and the Fed has cut rates, yet prices remain too high for many

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Hey there. I've got an economics degree and work in business. I've been literally telling people how we're in a massive bubble, propped up by fraud and snake oil for years now. The economists you're thinking about on TV have been enshitified just like everything else in the US. It got so bad someone created a Jim Cramer ETF that collected all his stock advice but did the OPPOSITE of what he said. That ETF had a 12% return in 2024.

So the advice you are hearing from "economists" is advice they were paid for. Real economists have seen the writing on the wall for years. We're spectacularly fucked. Like there's almost complete red flags across the board, and the stock market is likely captured and fraudulent and has been since 2008.

Nvidia's price is just propped up by all the AI investment, and it's worth is propping up others like Microsoft. The whole thing is an obvious ponzi scheme as total value in the market exceeds our GDP by 218% now. This literally means the stock market is at least 118% inflated bullshit.

Inflated because the SEC has taken 17 years to roll out the CAT system to prevent fraud that was created as a response to the 2008 crisis. 17 years, and the "fix" TV hosts cheered was so great in 2008 to prevent another crisis is just now as of 2025 kinda being used. I say kinda because it's not fully integrated, doesn't need to be used, and is currently reporting billions of fraudulent failures and trades nearly every day.

The system has been captured and tortured for years and anyone that knew what they were looking at and were vocal about it were laughed at by experts paid to disagree. I've been saying all the above for years, and people thought I was insane. Now you think all economists are insane because they've been paid to sane wash the bullshit I've been talking about for years.

The problem isn't economists, it's that you believe the people on TV are the experts instead of industry plants. Actual experts, they get ignored. All the time. Because they can't compete with the amount of idiots on TV saying the opposite.

So no offense, but stop listening to the people on TV who call themselves expert economists, expert investors, etc and just listen to someone who's actually experienced in that field. My opinion has been discarded for years as I've made hand over fist betting against our economy. Advice I've freely shared yet always been ignored because it goes against what the TV says.

Anyway, here's the next 3 years:

Massive recession turns into a depression. Starting now, but this Monday is going to be a pretty rough day for the stock Market. Maybe not another Black Monday that started the original crash in 29, but we're getting close.

Likely by this November, if not tomorrow, a stock market crash will happen. It's completely propped up, so just a matter of time until the money runs out. Seeing the dip in stocks and crypto at the same time last week screams massive liquidity crisis (big companies needing more liquidity to prop up the current ponzi scheme of AI.) And there's not many places left where liquidity can be found.

Anyway, the value of the dollar has already decreased by 10% this year. Which is an astronomically fucked thing for no one to be talking about.

So just FYI, whatever savings you do have, consider converting some of it into property / vehicles / assets with value as they will each retain their worth as the value of the dollar looses it. Advice you'll never hear on TV, but is actually viable if you want your money to have any of the same value it has now as idiots ruin everything.

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People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be poor and how close middle class is to being below the poverty

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You are correct! And it's crazy how effective those high corporate tax rates were at distributing wealth to better society and create a healthy middleclass of consumers to fuel an economy and prevent it from collapsing.

Weird how everything's turning to shit now that corporations don't pay taxes and use all their earnings to influence government elections instead of needing to actually be accountable to them.

"Too big to fail" was actually just "too big to stop." So now where there used to be a US government, there is a handful of billionaire cultists.

The middleclass 100% existed. Billionaires just stole it. The money that drove US spending across 3 decades is now all in 5 people's bank accounts doing jack shit to help anyone but those 5 people.

Higher corporate taxes = a middle class. See most Nordic countries as a great example that still exists.

Thank you for making this point. A middle class is the sign of a functioning society.

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Israel Says It Killed a Hamas Commander. It Killed a Pulitzer-Winning Journalist....

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Yes, that is indeed what a good journalist looks like.

Especially one who won a Pulitzer for covering Palestinians. You know, the people in all those pictures. Almost like he needs to be around them to journal what's happening. You know, for good journalism.

How fucking cooked is your brain on propaganda to think this indicates anything to the contrary?

You think someone taking a picture in front of a Ronald McDonald statue means they work at McDonald's?

Propaganda is easy to spot when it is this incredibly stupid. What's your excuse to not spot it?

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Wages are stagnant and cost of living is ridiculous. Are we headed for a crash?

Yes. We are heading towards a crash. We are very much already in one, and have absolutley no way out.

Trump killed all US international commerce with his TACO tariffs and is currently propping up a failing stock market by converting medicaid dollars into ICE / TECH BRO MILITARY funding. The stock market keeps doing great because our tax dollars are propping up companies like Google, Plantir, and Amazon through government grants instead of providing us a safety net. That money will run out eventually, but likely not before more CEOs are killed over it.

Literally we are living through the gilded 1920's again but with an American Hitler.

We now have years of uncontrolled inflation well above target rates, a corrupt government, wealth inequality worse than the French revolution, and rampant unintelligent Tariffs hurting all international trade at the cost of every small business in America. These are the same factors that caused the great depression, and if you think it's not going to happen again, you are wrong.

We are a country being lead into disaster by the least competent people imaginable.

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Sony Music Among Parties Pushing To Cut Off Internet for Pirating Customers — Supreme Court Asked To Intervene

The level of short sightedness in this pursuit is laughable, even if it's coming from corporate.

You pirated a song?

Well then, we're going to cut off your internet so that we can never effectively market anything we make to you ever again.

We'll gladly lose out on all the revenue you normally spend on corporate movies, tech, and content because we'd rather hyper fixate on the pennies of lost revenue that mp3 cost us, than ever worry about the macro economic conditions of the real people it comes from.

Fucking LOL.

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The longer I'm alive, the more I feel that people make things complicated to feel important.

The entire concept of capitalism rests on selling something for more than it's worth. This includes your own time and physical labor.

The problem is that we all got indoctrinated to believe that capitalism is a meritocracy, instead of a snake oil selling competition.

We're instead to believe a high paycheck means you are high in importance. But in reality, since this is capitalism, it just means your high paycheck is now a great reason to waste people's time to feel important. Selling your time as valuable while actually wasting it as much as possible for profit.

Which is now the only thing that trickles down. Well paid, but ultimate skilless idiots all making decisions to massively waste their time and everyone else's so they can feel their paycheck is earned.

People who want to get shit done, don't get these kinds of jobs simple because they're too good at finishing them. Making all the other idiots they work with look like idiots. So actual skills are seen as a detriment to holding these positions as they quickly reveal how much time is being wasted by every single Csuite whose paycheck is bigger than their abilities. (Which is from my experience damn near all of them).

Worked with Apple, Google, Sony, and more. All have the same problem at the top: idiots delegating impossible promises to people that have actual skills then making them take the fall when it inevitably goes wrong.

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As Economic Indicators Point to Recession, Trump Moves to Hide Key Data From Public

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They do. Because they already got away with making the US fail to realize a whole bunch. About project 2025. About Trump. School shootings. Class solidarity. Etc. The US is pliable because 50% of the country just needs someone on Fox to tell them how okay it is for them to get fucked, and they'll just let it happen.

Problem is, there are clear limits on how far this can be pushed. And these idiots are just about to discover what those limits are. But they are without question idiots, and certainly stupid enough to not see how this is going to effect them.

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Trump’s FBI issued ‘stand down’ order on Epstein probe just days after arrest: report

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One side is far more rotted than the other, as evidenced by Trump being mentioned in the Epstein files more than even Epstein.

Trump is now 100% the entirety of the Republican party. So that side of the rot has already eaten away anyything resembling reason and replaced it with the most horrendously inhuman decisions imaginable that have increased national misery for profit.

Democrats never wasted $200 Billion on a private army that can't do their job without public executions happening weekly.

Don't make such a stupid comparison when stupid is the reason it's got this bad.

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In 2011, Elon Musk was asked about chinese company BYD. He started laughing. In 2025, BYD sold more electric cars worldwide than Tesla

So here's the thing. Elon is an idiot. He wants you to desperately believe he is a genius while also holding true that he plays games 10 hours a day, tweets 2 hours a day, all which he prioritizes over for his 14 kids. That's several punchlines worth of "You know you're a redneck when" material in one sentence of his public behavior. Articles like this are beautiful. But his stupidity should not be a surprise here, more of an expectation. (And a hilarious one at that)

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This is going to be the origin story of a Punisher character if they keep this up.

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Trump killed over 1 million Americans through his completely fucked up and politicized Covid response.

Literally there's more dead Americans from Covid than anywhwre else. AND we're the 18th highest in deaths per capita despite being so very spread out.

Bush didn't let everyone's grandparents die in a pandemic then bail out his corpo friends with an unmonitored 1.7 trillion dollar blank check while the economy was failing.

No one forgot Bush. Trump is the concentrated malignant greed at the heart of how Bush got elected. He is magnitudes worse of a leader in every measurable and conceivable way. He corrupted the GOP from one that publically hated him into one that literally worships him as a king. He literally killed the GOP by converting them to his own MAGA religion, and they let him. So he's now killing millions through starvation with the death of USAID and SNAP benefits while demolishing the Whitehouse and extorting American corporations for the money to do so.

Bush was no where near this level of fucking insanity.

MAGA is now the face of the GOP. So the GOP is never coming back.