"I'm really starting to regret my vote"

He is the new president of the USA. I'm only half joking.

Cancer funding was on this bill he shut down: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/johnson-forward-stopgap-funding-bill-despite-elon-musk/story?id=116903027 I thought this was the whole point of mentioning cancer funding at this stage.

But ok, in the interest of transparency this looks like a balanced analysis https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/12/20/trump-elon-musk-childrens-cancer/ for ootl people

And then for some reason think he'll run the government like a business for their benefit instead of running it to the ground for his own benefit. After his first presidency was basically a scheme to funnel federal money into his hotels once he realized he could manufacture situations to force them to pay for rooms.

Their line is a circle around themselves.

Just to clarify drinking bleach is probably less bad than what he actually suggested, which was injecting disinfectant.

Not just well known… He’s outright banned from ever having a controlling stake in a charity. Because his theft was so blatant and widespread that regulators decided he can’t be trusted with it again.

If he ever joins a charity as a director, the charity must have a majority of directors outside of his “inner circle”, must use external accounting firms, and must retain a law firm experienced in charity law. Basically, he can’t ever have a controlling stake in a charity.

I would posit that this bromance is only going to last as long as Elmo's money does. As soon as he's in office and Elmo keeps showing up to "share" the spotlight he'll fire him by tweet on the toilet, in the standard fashion.

Maga members disproportionately produce children that they have no means to support and then expect welfare payments for themselves but not others.

Dumb parents raise dumb kids, who grow up to be dumb adults.

Which fits because the US will turn into a Russia-style oligarchy. Trump even mirrors Yeltzin in many ways.

At least 30% of the population has drunk the Kool-Aid and is so deep in, nothing, not anything, will turn them from their God King.

I heard that Vance is twice as bad.

Some are just fucking stupid. They are so stupid they will accuse you of calling them that when being asked critical thinking questions when they bitch about brown-skinned immigrants "taking over." I get tired of people saying they are going to "stay and fight" when they are too cowardly to call out close family members who do this.

We're naked monkeys evolved to live in small groups trying to run a system with several billion people. Humanity is a bit underspecced.

It's even worse/dumber than this, due to her federal unionized employment pension. Unions are apparently evil, despite her pension and paying for her Medicare B late enrollment penalties. The brain rot is really maddening and sad to see in person.

They already wanted to sacrifice the elderly for the economy during covid.

The sad part is anyone with half a brain knows conservatives won't fix these issues (the capitalist class are having record profits as they squeeze the working class like this, and they are now in full control).

What we are looking at is a dead democracy - a zombie really, it died years ago when it became an oligarchy (or maybe the death process started years ago)

So they couldn't be arsed to vote against trump. The Democrat's pamphlet wasn't as glossy. SAD. three jobs just got worse. Bon appétit.

I mean, look at Christian history and he definitely does.

He does though. No matter how much of a POS you are just say the magic words: "forgive me o lord jesus" and you are forgiven. We live in a clown world where 50% of the world is dragging the rest forward in time.

Gotta keep us non-billionaires busy fighting each other. Wouldn't want the pitchforks (or Glock ghost guns) pointed at the actual CEOs and politicians robbing the country.

Yup. Can't be wrong. Ever. Never admit failure. Never accept responsibility.

Like children.

Until the Democratic Party stops excluding the Bernies of the world, elections like these are what we're going to get. No one believes Democrats will actually do what they say they're going to do, not even their own voters.

Eh. They're the same to me.

Both groups are irreedemable losers, just in different ways.

People who support Nazis are basically the same as people that just kind of let Nazis do their thing without lifting a finger.

By a slight margin.

Killing two people is worse than killing one person. Both are still morally questionable actions.

Agreed but I think the ones who stayed home and actively encouraged others to do the same are worse than Trump voters who keep it to themselves. That Trump voters scored 1 vote and the armchair activist made at least one person not vote

It's all a moot point when you consider the anti-democratic functions of our EC and winner-take-all district system.

Yelling at the One Trump Voter or the One Jill Stein Voter or the One Hilary Clinton/Joe Biden/Bernie Sanders Primary Voter or what-the-fuck-ever is meaningless in the context of machine politics that ultimately decide who runs for office and who wins. The tiny cartel of partisan State Secretaries purging millions of voter registrations with a bias towards demographic groups that favor opposition parties will have a far more significant impact than your single ballot choice. The billions spent on advertising and marketing to shape public perception and limit the scope of national discourse, the tens of billions spent to orchestrate national media and pander to certain elite, overly represented economic interests, and the decades of Cold War propaganda we've been drenched in since Paul Weyrich, Pat Buchanan, and James Dobson gaslite generations of evangelical voters into believing defunding Medicaid would save unborn children, are far more responsible for the current state of electoral politics than your 11th hour hot take on who should be President.

Americans want desperately to believe that their liberal democracy isn't like the kletocracies and kakocracies of the Big Bad Foreign Countries. But this exceptionalist (deeply white nationalist) mindset is just one more layer of bullshit we've all been forced to swallow.

The people who voted for Trump have been hoodwinked into voting against their best interests thanks to an entire consent manufacturing industry. And the people who voted for Biden/Harris, thinking they could win over these scammed voters by softly pandering to the same set of reactionary, xenophobic campaign pledges and bullshit paranoid theories and get-rich-quick scams are also getting hoodwinked.

You're trapped in a systematic failure of electoral populism. "Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy!" isn't a way out. Its just a dogmatic belief that the Other Corporate Candidate was the panacea to the deep corruption that ails us.

No, you see, the answer was voting harder. Centrists have the answer: extremely minor policy interventions without any structural changes whatsoever. The real enemy are the leftists, because The End of History only faltered because people don't listen to centrists.

Edit: guys this is sarcasm....

Cool. And that makes a difference how exactly? I'm sure dividing Americans into "terrible" and "slightly less terrible" categories is definitely going to solve all their problems.

I don't think those ones are complaining, at least everyone I know isn't

There are countless examples of Democrats trying to make lives better, and Republicans denying bills and voting against it.

They are not the same at all, and idiots who vote R or don't vote are the reason Rs are allowed to continue to run the US into the ground.

Well that fifty bucks cost us any forward progress or even retaining past progress so great job. Non-voters fucked us all by not giving a shit. People died to give everyone the right to vote, throwing it away for "a day's pay" is insanity especially because the law states you get to vote - with pay. Anyone who doesn't see the radical difference in the parties is trying very, very hard not to

And to be clear, we have defeated ourselves. Name the cause you want to highlight, but not voting has stopped all progress and rolled back even more.

Are you going to choose to miss a badly-needed day's pay to vote?

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/7489

Also some states/employers already do this.

People understand this, they are just saying that there was a choice between having a vote for the same, or voting for trump. And between those two chosing not for the same means voting for trump, even by not voting.

If they end up worse afterwards, don't complain. That one day of much needed work hopefully pays for the years that come afterwards.

Free petroleum shots for all!

https://www.wola.org/analysis/understanding-failure-of-us-cuba-embargo/

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/health/wuxi-us-drugs-congress.html

https://medium.com/@thechinaacademy/chinas-diabetes-cure-america-s-last-hope-15f231cdaec6

The US also wouldn’t let Cuba import enough needles to distribute their superior Covid vaccines.

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/u-s-deprives-cuba-of-syringes-it-needs-now/

https://theintercept.com/2021/06/18/covid-vaccine-cuba-venezuela-sanctions/

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/stem-cell-therapy-reverses-type-1-diabetes-in-groundbreaking-case-study

Big Pharma is lobbying to ban the treatment from the US, to protect insulin profits.

Probably involves powdered tiger gonads.

I hope that those who are part of the ruling class suffer. They traded their humanity for money and power.

The ignorant morons who voted for Trump need more education and less religion. But I don't think they deserve to suffer.

I wish people could reflect on themselves and be better people.

Been witnessing conservatives and the conservative movement as a whole for over 20 years now. I can tell you definitively that no learning will be happening and no morals will be acquired.