Presidents do not control the economy. Obama wished people understood that.

The economy is in covid recovery, and Biden isn't a corrupt fascist running the government like it's his personal toy.

I'll give him that.

For all we know, Mr. Yale is just happy that people are paying their student loans again.

OMFG, my fucking nose is gone!

What in that article explains his apology better?

He switched from left to right because of a youtube video and then broke into a government official's house with a deadly weapon.

He then used the deadly weapon when he knew he would be caught.

Fuck him.

His sad snff snff Rittenhouse dance in court is just to avoid life in prison.

Translation: I would rather take this opportunity to self-promote.

Tasers were introduced to police forces so that the police could de-escalate potentially lethal situations with less-than-lethal means. 2 seconds later, tasers turned into replacements for billy clubs to mete out punishment. That was not their intended use.

Every time they do this, they are turning a non-violent event into a violent one.

This would've resulted in my leaving if I hadn't left in June.

Saved me 3.5 months.

The media is also avoiding reporting about all the parts of the rightwing plan.

They are as follow:

1-Argue that Article 2 of the Constitution gives the president power to do whatever he wants.

https://www.axios.com/2023/05/21/trump-2025-visionhttps://www.axios.com/2023/05/21/trump-2025-vision

2-Fire the civil service and replace it with Trump loyalists.

https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-conservatives-trump-heritage-857eb794e505f1c6710eb03fd5b58981

3-Immediately implement the insurrection act and use the military to fight protesters.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-mulling-deploying-military-to-streets-on-day-1-if-elected-report-says

4-Use the DoJ to target critics

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-presidential-justice-department-probes-barr-kelly-milley-cobb-2023-11

5-Weaken the election security agency

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republicans-gop-president-curb-election-security-agency-angered/story?id=102261352

6-Reject climate change

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/27/project-2025-dismantle-us-climate-policy-next-republican-president

7-Remove all LGBTQ+ protections

https://www.metroweekly.com/2023/09/right-wing-project-2025-seeks-to-eradicate-lgbtq-protections/

8-Bring the Bible into government

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/project-2025-heritage-foundation-christian-nationalism-rcna103510

We need bullet trains, not more passenger jets.

This guy over at Mastodon conducted his own research about supermarket prices in Austria.

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@badlogic/111071396799790275

That's some damning shit.

I can only imagine the shit going on in the US.

No. American History X was pretty on the mark for the state of the US in 1999.

Trump 'telling it like it is' and how he was going to make Mexico pay for the border wall were what brought all the racist scum out of the woodwork.

Political correctness gets a lot of flak, but what it did was raise the bar. If you have to be careful to call one group of students 'first years' and not 'freshmen', then you know damn well calling different ethnic groups slurs is not acceptable. The PC movement drove the racists further into the closet, and then Trump was a big dinner bell to bring that shit back out again.

In today’s order, Engoron asks the defendants to provide a list of “entities controlled or beneficially owned by Donald J. Trump”

So, Trump, who is incapable of telling the truth, has to truthfully report what businesses belong to him in New York?

He can't do that. Not without lying. And then if he lies, he faces more charges.

Good. He earned this in spades.

Why does free speech only seem to cut one way?

We have to have free speech because corporations are humans who need to be free to pollute the political process with money, but oh no you can't gather and talk about things I hate.

They birthed and normalized shitty internet behavior: rickrolling on the lighter end, trolling, doxxing, and swatting.

They would also do shit like make fun of mentally handicapped people, which would lead goons to harassing the victims IRL and teaching kids that this was all OK.

And they would go after people who talked shit about about them, criticized them, or otherwise attacked them. The 4chan army would come out in force and try to ruin people's online existence.

Before Q-Anon showed up, they had started calling Trump God Emperor during the election. I think they may just have chose him as the candidate who would cause the most chaos, but it's easy to see how others others would take their goals more seriously and want Trump as president.

And the cycles of shitty behavior over decades attracted more and more rightwingers. I used to think of them as a chaos collective, but the politics swung hard right.

And then they spread to other platforms with r/the_donald, pepe the frog, and calling each other pedes.

Know too that any time they bleat about the border, immigrants wouldn't come if there weren't rich white dudes offering them shit pay for grueling work.

Anyone serious about the border would go after the employers. The Republicans only care about the border as a racist dog whistle.

Taking covid seriously was not going to save the economy. It would've saved lives, but the economic impact of covid was a global one.

This is an attempt to force the sub open and retain your free moderating services.

n fact they could have talked transparently about their opex and asked for a simple donation drive every now and then like Wikipedia.

Let's remember this about Kbin and the Fediverse.

I would donate to help counterbalance the wave of migration that brought me here.

Magazines having a chance to mature is going to lead to people being further entrenched on one instance.

Are we already forgetting what happened 3 years ago?

STATES and the CDC called lockdowns while the president told people it would just pass, it could be cured with sunlight, to drink bleach, and take horse dewormer.

Trump did NOT take covid seriously.

How many of the million people that died were due to him playing make believe is hard to measure, but he killed people by telling them bullshit.

Now this is where dragging out cases is going to work against him.

Trump needs to STFU until next year.

Fat fuckin' chance of that happening.