immigration raids = pogroms

But they can’t focus on big tech after all the robber barons lined up to pay protection money to Trump.

Self-awareness really isn’t your strong suit, is it?

When I wrote my predictions of the destruction and suffering that Trump’s presidency is going to bring and that you’re not going to recognize it until it’s too late, your response was “I’m set for the rest of my life, but thx for the concern!”

You think that’s not revealing?

I have no doubt at all that you believe exactly that.

More’s the pity.

I’m set for the rest of my life

Ah - that explains it.

Well, actually it only explains half of it, but I wouldn’t expect ypu to also admit that you don’t give a shit about other people.

And?

I’d take senile over delusional, narcissistic, amoral, sociopathic, traitorous and pathologically dishonest (and probably senile to boot) any day of the week.

Biden was a mediocre-at-best president even when he was still sharp, and certainly went downhill.

Trump is absolutely the worst president in US history, and one of the worst national leaders ever in the history of the world. He’s not even just incompetent - he’s overtly malignant and actively and methodically destroying the US.

And I don’t give a shit whether you believe me or not - it’ll reach the point when you won’t be able to deny it any more and you’ll have to face the fact yourself. And by then it will be too late to do anything about it. And it’ll serve you right.

The biggest scandal in American presidential history

LOL.

The only people who think it’s a scandal are the people desperate to distract from the fact that we now have the most corrupt, dishonest, power-hungry, anti-democracy, traitorous, thieving, sociopathic and stupid piece of shit to have ever sleazed his way into the Oval Office sitting there right now, methodically violating the Constitution, ignoring the rule of law, stealing everything he can get his little hands on, lying literally non-stop and overtly destroying everything that was ever any good about the US.

And not coincidentally, he can’t shut the fuck up about Biden either.

With that said, the other thing that stands out about this memo is that it uses all-caps to spell out “you” and “your.” The obvious reason for that is that Biden was so far gone that he would get confused if his handlers didn’t go over the top to delineate that he was being addressed. There’s no other logical explanation, and we’ve seen this odd capitalization gambit before.

Yes, we’ve seen it before. As a matter of fact, if one goes to sny right-wing news or comment site, one sees it so incessantly that it’s become a hallmark - anyone can write a satirical version of a right-wing article or post and have it recognized as such solely by scattering all-caps words through it.

And amusingly enough, they appear to serve the same purpose - they’re there to help people with diminished cognitive abilities recognize the important bits.

LOL

Unfortunately, facts count for nothing now, since Trump is a delusional narcissist whose only reality is inside his own mind, and he’s surrounded himself with angrily frightened sycophants who just want to be told that reality is something other than what all the people they hate and fear say it is.

Conservatives live in such a bizarre fantasy world.

You’d think that sooner or later it would filter through to at least some of them that it’s meaningful that essentially without exception, if they just let information flow freely, whether on a website or a forum or in public comments or via an AI or whatever - it ends up skewed against conservatism.

But they never seem to get it. Instead, they go to great lengths to carefully censor and silence and astroturf and manipulate to force it over to a pro-conservative position, and they then have to constantly monitor and censor and astroturf to keep it there because if they relax their guard it starts drifting anti-conservative again.

In one sense, yeah - it’s easy and obvious - they lie, and often even to themselves.

But that doesn’t really explain anything. It goes so far beyond just lying that I really have a hard time making sense of it. Glib answers just don’t hack it.

It just doesn’t seem possible that they can sincerely believe that opinion consistently turns against them through some sort of near-universal conspiracy and that their constant manipulations and censorship and astroturfing can really be in support of truth. Sure, individuals can be that delusional, but that many of them?

I just can’t make sense of it. It’s like they believe that gravity is a conspiratorial lie that everyone else pretends to believe in just to stop them from flapping their arms and flying to the moon.

Government of the people, by the idiots, for the psychopaths.

I used to work with a woman who was part of a Pentecostal church that did snake-handling and speaking-in-tongues.

Reading this article was sort of like listening to her talk about her church.

I still remember when Facebook first caught on, and I learned that it was a site on which people posted their real names and pictures of themselves and their families and their lives, and all I could think was, “Why in the hell would anyone ever do that?”

I still don’t know.

The late 90s or maybe the early 00s Probably pre-Google (so pre-1998) but maybe in their earliest days. Definitely pre YouTube and pre Facebook (so pre-2004). It’s been pretty much all downhill since then.

Fucking psychopaths.

I would say that the most telling thing is that there hasn’t been a similar shift among Republicsns.

Anyone who can look at what Israel has done and is doing to the Palestinians in Gaza, and increasingly in the West Bank, without being filled with horror, revulsion and pity is a monster.

“Shamed” implies he’s capable of feeling shame, which I very much doubt.

And they didn’t even really try to hide it - the tax cuts for the top 1% are pretty much exactly equal to the Medicaid cuts.

So millions of Americans are losing their healthcare so that a few thousand can afford bigger yachts and more mansions, and not just in a sort of roundabout sense, but in an officially mandated transfer directly from the poor to the rich.

If the world was just, every single Congressperson who voted in favor of this bill would face criminal charges for every single avoidable death that it will cause.

And as I point out every time they tout this number, without context, it means nothing.

What was the change in the overall US labor pool for the same month?

This is only actually job “growth” if fewer than 147,000 people were added to the labor pool. If exactly 147,000 people were added to the labor pool, then it’s only managing to keep pace, and if more than 147,000 people were added, it’s actually a net loss.

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