Only if you’re assuming benevolence on Trump’s part. What if we assume malice? Undermining a country’s water security is a big accomplishment.

For the asshole, I would have gone with Dawkins

Well, Sears went under because the CEO was a True Believer in the Libertarian/Atlas Shrugged/Starve The Beast method of running a business. He genuinely thought that making stores and even individual departments fight for ever reducing funding was going to make them better. What he learned is that when people have their livelihood at stake, they fight dirty and lie.

When Sears finally closed forever, he said he regretted it. Probably not as much as the people whose lives he ruined.

Afaik they’d have to go through customs for the country they’re trying to enter. I can’t recall ever having to deal with US customs when leaving the US, it’s always been the country I’m traveling to.

Not enough

Could you be more specific? Because the only safeguard I’m aware of is impeachment and removal, which requires both chambers of Congress to act against Trump and I just don’t believe that’s going to happen while Republicans control both chambers and impeachment certainly isn’t going to “kick in” as if it’s some automatic process.

So I’m genuinely curious about what’s got you so optimistic

Wasn’t the stated goal to eliminate 2 trillion in spending? So, he’s destroyed the government’s ability to function and compromised the security of the government’s computer systems he’s only reached 2.75% of his stated goal? But not actually?

I want off this ride

They either have a death wish, they’re stupid or there’s something else

You know what they say. Everything that comes out of their mouths is either a confession or projection!

Yeah, hypothetically anyway. I technically count as being “in the thousands” because I own my home and car but I have no savings, no retirement, and have only 3 digits in my bank account which will go down to 2 digits soon enough.

That’s the tricky thing about “net worth.” It can be a very descriptive deceptive way of measuring things.

Edit: is the autocorrect error why I was getting down votes? I can’t figure out what else people would be objecting to :(

Agree 100%

The biggest reason we (the USA) are losing to fascists is because half of Americans are fascists, whether they realize it or not. And it’s been that way for a hundred years (and they were proto fascists, aka Confederates, before that)

Hence “with all due acknowledgement” because I understand that 10 mil is nothing, comparatively.

But I also understand that, to the Amazon warehouse worker with a net worth of a few thousand, or the disabled person who isn’t allowed to have a net worth greater than 2 thousand, 10 mil is a a fuck ton of money. You know, comparatively.

Man worth 10 million dollars warns of rule by the rich.

I guess he would know.

(With all due acknowledgement that 10 million is chump change for the likes of Elan and Musky)

The cold war was against the Soviets. We’re losing to fascists.

Which is much worse (imo)

Not me!

I cry in the shower at night after work.

What’s taught in schools: the parents should have a say! Don’t let the government decide what to teach our kids!

Books in libraries and content on the internet: the government must step in and make certain content illegal!

Of course, fascists don’t care if they’re hypocritical. They say whatever gives them the most power in any situation, so calling out hypocrisy won’t stop them. It’s still good to do, though.

It’s standard procedure to deny that a sale is happening untill the moment of no return because public reactions to the sale can impact negotiations. Rumors like the are denied no matter what, even if they’re true.

So we can’t believe them, but we also can’t say for sure their lying. Basically we just have to wait and see.

I would LOVE to see this prosecuted, not because I want people who are hurting from the loss of a pet to be hurt more, but because not enough people consider raw milk dangerous and they really should. Even if the punishment was super small (because these people obviously didn’t understand what they were doing) it would hopefully help prevent future incidents.

Allowing any treatment under any circumstances is an admission that the condition is real and needs treated.

The cruelty is the point.

Yeah but people who don’t actually care about saving lives in Gaza “sent a message” to the DNC that the DNC was never going to listen to in the first place. So, worth it. /s

Leftists: Elon is a fascist

Centrists: No he isn’t, it’s not ok for you to say that.

Elon’s Dad: Elon is finally the Nazi we wanted him to be.

Centrists: Uh…