jakee
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It's often the case that minorities have to continue to work harder to gain and maintain respect once in post than those who can just look the part and skate on with the minimum of effort and an assumption of competence. Like Karin Jean-Pierre being characterised as the White House DEI hire despite being significantly more experienced than any of Trump's ever increasingly Aryan Barbie looking press secretaries yet Fox never complains about them being hired for reasons other than merit. Obviously, to people like Fox hosts and Winsor, many forms of racism are still acceptable.
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True, but they're also quite fond of the many billions of dollars they make each year and would prefer not to see that fall. So they may still be some knock on effect.
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I’ll listen to anything that politician has to say.
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Thu US markets just had their worst day since the Covid outbreak because Trump and his economics team are just so much dumber than anyone even realised yet. The supposed tariff percentage they are retaliating against is actually a figure of trade deficit divided by total imports, which they're describing as the US losing out. This means when there are generally poor countries mining and selling a bunch of rare minerals that US industry needs but who can't afford to import much of what the US makes with those minerals, they get smacked with a huge reciprocal tariff. Which means that it is now much more expensive for US industry to get the materials it needs. What an amazing win! https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/trumps-idiotic-and-flawed-tariff-calculations-stun-economists
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The only reason I wouldn't say the same about you is that I don't think your intentions in voting for Trump were good. You wanted him to bring the pain and the racism.
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Because you voted in explicitly racist people. Jesus man it ain’t rocket surgery, just cause and effect.
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He was quoting Goebbels to illustrate what he is accusing Biden of having done, not what he says the Republicans are doing. Of course, as with literally every single fucking thing they ever say, Biden didn’t actually do it and Trump is trying to do it, so there is that.
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It's not as if the 'not joking' talk of a third term is new. He talked about it plenty during the campaign and oh yeah - he already genuinely tried to unlawfully seize power and end democracy in the USA. I guess every Trump voter should be looking for a new country.
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And yet you absolutely do know that you're lying. You know there is no 'help' you could have provided that would have prompted Chauvin to let go, since all the other help provided by the police officers and paramedics in attendence did not prompt him to let go until long past when Floyd was uncoscious, dead and gone. Embracing the lie because it's what your tribe expects is the only principle that MAGA always follows.
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It is literally the truth. What you’re saying comes from the Ministry of Truth. Right, so George Floyd deserved to be killed for resisting arrest but the Jan 6th rioters deserve forgiveness and to be let out of prison early for actively assaulting police officers. I wonder what the major difference between the two is?
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Other people managed to recall that before the election. I guess you're just not very good at history.
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Or to put it another way, they didn’t.
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Luckily, when faced with repeated statements like "DEI is worse than the KKK" the discernment is quite simple. The only tricky thing to figure out is how you can deliberately say such racist and sexist things on such a regularly basis yet still act all snowflakey and offended when it is pointed out that you're doing it.
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You, the US taxpayer, are now paying to employ Pete Hegseth's baby brother and fly him around the world in a cushy DHS liaison job. Great to see that meritocracy kicking in now that DEI is gone. You're going to get so much meritocracy you'll say "please, please, it's too much meritocracy we can't take it anymore!"
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He definitely is. No one else is capable of conveying so little thought with so many words.
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And I think that is the best illustration of your level of political understanding. I stand corrected. Every time I forget how shallow and credulous people can be, Windsor is there to remind me. Good ol’ reliable.
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Sure, but you also have to consider that, oddly enough, your prospects under Harris would be significantly better and she’s not despicable. Do it’s a balancing act.
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I now think the funniest bit is when they’re considering a delay to the operation but worry they’ll look like pussies if it leaks and Hegseth says “Don’t worry I’ll enforce 100% OPSEC” well y’know except for this one national magazine editor but I’m sure that doesn’t matter.
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Most military / intelligence talking heads seem to be saying the contents could easily be unclassified now, after the strikes, but would 100% have been considered clearly and obviously secret before the strikes. Contrast with treatment of Clinton for emails that were not secret when she sent or received them but were retrospectively classified later on.
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When Mike Walz needs a 'tech genius' to tell him why he decided to look up the wrong guy's name and add him to a secret military strike chat then you gotts wonder what's next. Breaking: Elon Musk called in by Pete Hegseth to find out how all those empty beer bottles ended up under his desk at 2PM on a Wednesday. Billionaire savant only man alive who can solve this mystery...
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The incompetent and unrepentant Mike Walz is trying to blame the journalist for being added to the group, suggesting (without evidence) that the journalist may have changed his name on Signal to appear like he was someone else. Now, I’ve worked in high street retail before and the way data protection is now if a 16 year old minimum wage sales attendant gives out sensitive personal account information of John Smith to a person who simply walks up and says they are John Smith then that employee and that company can really be in quite deep shit - because it’s obviously an incredibly stupid thing to do. But hey, these are highly paid white male professionals. They can possibly be held to the same standard as teenage part timers and DEI looking folks.
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Perfect encapsulation of the new Right. There is not a single governing principle they will not sell down the river in the blink of an eye in exchange for more power.
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Yet more evidence that the unfettered free market is truly a shining path to our most glorious future. Obviously any employer willing to hire a 14 year old kid to work an overnight shift during the chill week can be trusted to have their best interests at heart.
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Mike Johnson on whether the House would hold any inquiries: “I’m sure they’ll do better next time, what else is there to say?” Sure, what else. Certainly nothing that could be uncovered by a years long Congressional investigation and FBI involvement in the run up to the next election I’m sure. Honestly the sheer volume of partisan corruption and hypocrisy engaged in by the Republican Party really is starting to make it difficult to care, even when it’s this blatant. Funny that Trump said ‘you’re telling me this for the first time’ to a reporter who asked him about it just now. I guess that must mean none of the people involved who report directly to the Oval Office have enough basic respect for Trump to even let him know they fucked up on his watch. ‘Only the best’ people indeed. At least none of them were DEI, imagine what might have happened then.
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Canadians don't need tourist visas. They quite literally are allowed to come to the US then do the paperwork.
