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See, I think they might actually regard this part in a completely different way: they don’t like entrepreneurs, because they represent a threat to the established billionaires who support Trump. So, to reduce the entrepreneur class, they make it as hard as possible to become one, and one way to do that is to tie healthcare insurance to employment, and make it too expensive to get it on your own. That forces people, especially those with families, to keep working for The Man instead of striking out to work for themselves. Threat mitigated.

It couldn’t possibly be that Trump’s abject awfulness every single day for four years running could have driven turnout against him high enough to get him voted out of office, could it? Your man told you it’s the fraud, the whole fraud, and nothing but the fraud. So what else could it be other than the fraud? How on brand. Now, here’s a thought exercise, not for you, really, but for everyone else. Trump has cried “wolf” … er, “fraud” … so often that the accusation of voter fraud itself has essentially been stripped of all meaning. So if—and again, it’s a thought exercise—if the Trump people could manage to engineer a massive election fraud that, I don’t know, turned D votes into R votes, or wiped out D votes altogether, or double-counted R votes—the actual method doesn’t even matter, so pick your favorite—and proof positive found this to be the case … well, could anyone even blow the whistle on it and look credible? Would it not look for all world like just another empty accusation? So it might be possible that the whole fraud canard could actually have been a genius move on the part of the brain trust backing Trump to set up something like this so meticulously over these past years in order to engineer a massive fraud to steal this election, and get away with it completely, because the accustatio has been rendered impossible to pursue. Once again, just a thought exercise. Carry on.

He wasn't stealing a vote from Harris so he could vote Libertarian, so it's at worst a wash.

https://x.com/voxrob/status/1854255631156298095

Well, that makes a hell of a lot of sense, doesn't it? Yes, I am completely serious about that.

Whatever they are, those are almost certainly NOT the ingredients he will get banned.

Man, it sure wasn't science fiction Orwell was writing here, was it?

In any event, black lady pick was never going to beat Trump.

What's the over/under on when Vance takes over the presidency? I'm thinking August 4, 2026.

I guess by dint of the transitive properties, Tigeraholic is now the president of the political forum. At least tell us at Mexico is paying for the digital wall.

As long as we're still saying our goodbyes—good bye, Affordable Care Act. Hello, full-priced insurance (with guaranteed double-digit-percent annual increases) for entrepreneurs and other "unemployed" people. Millions will fall off the rolls. All according to plan, since healthcare is not a right.

They both—they're all—taking orders from the same товарищ, so it hardly matters who sits in what seat, at least as far as moving the same Путин agenda forward.

I'm actually concerned that vaccines will be, if not outlawed outright, then slow-walked via government regulation in a way that make them difficult-to-impossible to get.

You have that luxury. 😁 This happens only on iOS that I have seen, and only when there's a situation involving going to a new page. All anyone has to do when they are on iOS and they submit and nothing appears to happen is just to go on as though it posted, even though it's still showing up like it isn't. It probably posted fine, but worst case, if it didn't, your post should still be in the window when you refresh or go to the next page, and then you can submit again.

How long before the courts strike them down as unconstitutional?

They don't care about the economy. They're coming in to strip America for parts.

Good luck to them when they protest Trump sending troops in to help Netanyahu subdue Gaza.

Not as much as Vladimir Putin, who as of January 20 will become the most powerful man in the world.

Will you forgive them when they beg for your forgiveness?

Oh no, quite the opposite. Red states want all your money now. All of it. That’s what this whole thing is about: taking your money from you.

Welp—Thanksgivings all around the country are gonna be interesting.

As far as this goes, we can only hope the incompetence runs as deep for the new administration as the first one, but if that’s not the case—if they are very competent at achieving their stated goals—then your assurances will fall flat.

Remember, this is the nation that kept it legal at the state level for people to own other people as property long after nearly every other western country had abandoned it. It is also the nation that allowed several of its states to become one-party fascist states with the explicit purpose of maintaining a de facto slavery through the Jim Crow black codes. Embracing fascism runs deep, very deep, in our blood, and we’ve never left it totally behind us.

Because he told his fans so, and that’s good enough for them.