In a country of 350M

To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to jerk off to.

Who Is With Trump?

Jensen Huang, Nvidia
Tim Cook, Apple
Elon Musk, Tesla/SpaceX
David Solomon, Goldman Sachs
Kelly Ortberg, Boeing
Brian Sikes, Cargill
Cristiano Amon, Qualcomm
Steven Schwarzman, Blackstone
Larry Fink, BlackRock
Jane Fraser, Citi
Jim Anderson, Coherent
Henry Lawrence Culp, GE Aerospace
Jacob Thaysen, Illumina
Michael Miebach, Mastercard
Dina Powell McCormick, Meta
Sanjay Mehrotra, Micron
Ryan McInerney, Visa
Chuck Robbins, Cisco (was invited but will not attend because of the company’s earnings this week, Cisco said Monday)

Maybe if Putin was running a Fortune 500 US-based mega-corp.

Cuba in Ten Years

Amazing what a country can do when its continued existence depend on residents doing it.

Maybe if the Friekorps confined itself to shit posting on Facebook

Maybe it’s stress or anxiety idk.

Could just be that we’re in for six more weeks of winter.

Clearly that’s why you need someone into oral.

I think there’s a real serious argument that “conservative” can mask “woman” or “minority” to counterweight nativist bigotry. And you might see this in politicians like Jodi Ernst or Sarah Palin or Dianne Feinstein or Kamala Harris even, where tacking to conservative rhetoric offsets the presumption that you’re a bunch of bra burning far left feminists.

But the idea that you can’t run as a conservative Democrat and win high office? Really requires you to just gouge out your eyes before glancing at any historical text. God forbid you lay eyes on a biography of Hillary Clinton.

He’s the one claiming the progressives unseating neoliberals in primaries are funded by Republicans.

It’s the same line they used again the Green Party in the '00s, various DSA candidates in the '10s, and the Sanders movement in the '20s.

Anyone who isn’t under the thumb of neoliberal leadership is some combination of Russia spy, Republican plant, and double-secret Communist infiltrator.

the first woman to win will be a conservative

Sort of like how Colin Powell was our first black president?

Always have been

No, she lost because she was black and a woman.

“Kamala Harris ran the perfect campaign, she was just stabbed in the back!”

There is absolutely nothing you can say about a hypothetic 2028 election in 2026.

Speculation on the 2028 presidential race began five minutes after the 2024 polls closed.

The Forever Campaign is much like the Forever War, in so far as it is a suffocating political miasma that strangles any other conversation.

They’re going to love having a fresh face to attract people to the party, donate lots of time and money, and stick around to get scolded with “Vote Blue No Matter Who” when progressives are rug pulled in Iowa and New Hampshire.

Some of the most “liberal” decisions were voted for by judges that “conservatives” put on the bench

Those judges were the product of a Senate that kept guys like Bork, Carswell, and Hayworth. The Warren and Burger Courts weren’t an accident. They came about through progressive Congressmen gatekeeping the bench against bigots and reactionaries.

Once neoliberals like Joe Biden and Dianne Feinstein opened the door for Thomas, Scalia, Roberts, and Alito, the court was yanked rightward.

Has the public ever actually believed SCOTUS decisions were non-partisan?

He’s been coddled by cronies and yes-men for so long that he’s forgotten how to speak without expecting ot hear applause.

The EU disagrees with you after a thorough investigation.

Police investigating themselves inevitably find the people they are policing were in the wrong.

China has been giving its EV manufacturers massive state subsidies for a long time now

Chinese manufacturers benefit from the state investment in infrastructure and the at-cost production of utilities through SOEs. They produce professionals out of universities funded with state tax dollars who do not carry enormous personal debts. They have a large high speed transportation network that reduces delivery delays and mobilizes much of the idle workforce.

In any other country, we’d acknowledge this as capital investments in the economy at-large. In China, we pretend that this is some kind of unfair business advantage.

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