“What was he convicted of?” someone asked.

“He had tattoos on his body,” she replied triumphantly.

“Hey, smartass!” shouted a woman in her sixties, jumping to her feet. “You want to see my tattoo?”

“Lady,” the Trump supporter said. “You don’t know what a tattoo is.”

“Yes I do, I’ve got one!” the woman shouted, tapping her chest.

The Trump supporter dismissed her with a wave of one hand. “I’ve had enough of you Democrats,” she said.

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    The stupidity of some people in that article is jaw dropping.

    Also, if they shout at each other now, just wait for the SSA, Medicare, and Medicaid cuts that make hearing aids too expensive for rural boomers.

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      Studies show that two out of every three Trump voters are just as stupid as the third one.

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      Just a matter of time before conservative media finds a suitable scapegoat. They’ll get a wall of “Transgender Mexican ISIS stole the last bits of New Deal social contract” news articles for six months and come out more rabid than when they started.

      This isn’t merely “Iowans are uniquely gullible”, either. The toxic nature of modern media is everywhere. And it produces as many Eric Adams Democrats as Donald Trump Republicans.

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      Most Americans aren’t smart enough to connect the disappearance of Medicaid and stuff to anything.

      They’ll just see it disappear, be angry for a little while and write things like “make it make sense”, “a suit without a man” or whatever the buzzwords are then.

      Then the next outrage thing comes along and they’ll bite, forgetting what they used to have.

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      This is almost exactly word for word what happened at work today.

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      Im trying in my head to make that response of “he had tattoos on his body” less stupid than it is, but cannot come up with a scenario where someone would get tattoos anywhere else.

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        Trying to get into magas heads is a bit like entering the Kaiju minds: dangerous with extensive psychological side effects, and to be avoided

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        You’re focused on the word, “body”, when the one that makes the difference is “on”.

        If he had tattoos in his body, it would be ok.

        It’s just a bit more difficult to find a tattoo artist who is willing to work on the inside.

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      Tattoos are basically body mutilation or improvement, depending on who you ask. beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

      I wonder what she thinks of body mutilation like hair cut, nail cutting, plastic surgery and circumcision.

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      Yeah and has been since Trump laughed off stage in 2015

      Edit: I guess people knew what I meant. I meant since he wasnt laughed off stage in 2015

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      Yup.

      Even if Trump ceases to exist tomorrow, we’re still fucked. He’s opened the door for copycat politicians for the rest of our lives. Our electoral system is comically corrupt and non-representative. Our entire political system is comically corrupt with way fewer safeguards than we all assumed. Our justice system is incapable of enforcing the law on the wealthy. And there are simply too many stupids in this country.

      No party will ever have the massive majority required to make the fundamental changes required to fix all this. Only one party is even somewhat interested in doing so. Short of a revolution and complete wipe and reset of our government and how it functions, the only way this country is going is down.

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        Tbh the people are not educated properly, too enslaved to debt service and bills, and so brain conditioned to individual greed that forming a cohesive army to restore democracy is a laugh.

        Not to mention tbe 50%+ casuality rate from heart attacks if a civil war broke out.

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          Tbh the people are not educated properly, too enslaved to debt service and bills, and so brain conditioned to individual greed that forming a cohesive army to restore democracy is a laugh.

          That’s very true. Our problems don’t only exist at the top. We have fundamental, critical problems at every strata: top, bottom, and middle.

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        He’s opened the door for copycat politicians for the rest of our lives.

        I don’t think so, I think Trump will be often replicated but never duplicated.

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      The leopards are already obese. I suspect by summer they’ll die by cardiovascular diseases.

      Magas can do one thing right, even saving the leopards is too hard for them

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    This will only escalate… And, across the country…

    And I’m here for it.

    (How is it possible to have a “Food and Drink” emoji section that has no popcorn emoji*) 🤷‍♂️ 🤡

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      My mobile keyboard has it. 🍿 Does your keyboard bring up a search bar when you go to emoji mode? You can also try searching online for “XYZ emoji” and if one exists you could copy+paste from there

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      One of the nice things about MAGAts being stupid is when they get mad they get real mad. So as they get more and more mad about the situation under their own leadership, they may be stupid enough to take things into their own hands. And I’m here for that. Let them do the dirty work and end up pushing up daisies or in a prison cell.

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    “Lady,” the Trump supporter said. “You don’t know what a tattoo is.”

    ^ That line baffles me

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      Ok, hear me out.
      David Beckham has tattoos on his body AND is an immigrant. Therefore he must be a part of the ms13 gang and should be deported. It’s the only thing that makes sense!!!

      I’ve also heard Dolly Parton has tattoos…

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      Every day you hear someone say the stupidest shit you’ve ever heard in your life. And then the next day someone says something even dumber. It’s absolute hell on earth but the plus side is my mortgage is cheap as dirt I guess.

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    I don’t feel bad for anyone that voted for trump. Nothing he is doing is a surprise. So far it has been everything he said he wanted to do. Fucking morons got exactly what they voted for.

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      I want them to see the error of their ways. No forgiveness without change, but there is no change without the possibility of forgiveness.

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    He voted Republican chiefly on the issue of abortion…

    WTAF. Why are there so many idiots like this? You don’t like abortion, don’t fucking have one. And if you are male…it’s not your concern.

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      A person I used to consider a friend told me that Donald Trump was sent by God to end abortion. When I brought up several bible verses that directly condemn what Donald Trump has done he told me they were out of context.

      No longer speak to him.

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        Ah, the old “out of context” crutch that so many Babble-bangers like to fall back on. Hilarious.

        The same people that will ignore dietary law of the religion they co-opted will quote from the same book to support their opinion on Teh Ghey.

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      Not fully, but in practice to benefit from no trade barriers. And it’ll be done by 2040.

      I think what we’ll get is no more singular head of state because the Unitary Executive model is a flawed premise that highlights the fragility of having only one person as the chief executive. It’s a poison pill. Suggesting it is to suggest inevitable death of the Republic.

      What we’ll end up with our scaled up Switzerland. An Executive Council of 5/7/9 regionally elected members, with a rotation of who is the ceremonial head of state for functions. I like 7, with more of the East Coast and Midwest consolidated.

      But whew…the constitution will need a major overhaul for that to work.

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        Unitary executive model is a bullshit right wing theory that ignores the entire basis of how our system was designed.

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          The problem is that is much worse than bullshit, it’s a death sentence.