Trump's Second Term

Andy_Ross said:
Welch: As someone who lives in a red state, let me just tell you what MAGA supermajorities get you. We're 50th in education. The worst in the whole country for women to live. We're poorer, worst health care. And if you look at the bottom ten states, they are all MAGA supermajorities. These policies hurt people. They use people's faith to lure them in and say, oh, we're family values. But then they don't vote to help women have children. They don't vote for health care. They don't vote for child care. They demean the poor.

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But they troll the libs and brutalize immigrants so its all good...
 
Just because I think that this is worth sharing -

Young men are blaming Democrats for Trump bleeding them dry

“While the overall unemployment rate was still a respectable 4.2% in July, for young men aged 20 to 24, it was 8.3%, which is near recession levels—and for recent college graduates, the annual rate is 5.3%,” wrote Bloomberg columnist Allison Schrager. “Both of these numbers are about double the comparable figures for young women.”


Part of this, she notes, is cyclical: Men tend to work in industries more sensitive to downturns, such as construction and manufacturing, while women are more concentrated in sectors that are less vulnerable, like health care and education.


But that’s where the irony kicks in. Manufacturing and construction are also the industries arguably most affected by President Donald Trump’s tariffs. An analysis by the Washington Center for Equitable Growth found that of the top 25 subsectors of the U.S. economy most harmed by tariffs, a shocking 19 were in manufacturing.


And that’s not all. Repair and maintenance came in at No. 14, construction at No. 20, waste management at No. 21, and energy-extraction industries—i.e., mining and drilling—rounded out the list at No. 23 through No. 25. These are all overwhelmingly male-dominated industries. And as Schrager points out, the first to be laid off in those industries are the young ones.


You can see the vicious cycle. Trump’s policies directly damage the industries that employ young men, but when layoffs come, the right blames women, immigrants, and “wokeness” rather than the real culprit—the right itself. And thanks to the echo chamber of online influencers and algorithms, too many of those young men believe it.


Republicans break their jobs, then harvest their anger—while Democrats get the blame.
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There's much more to the picture, of course, but the overarching theme of so much of the underlying problems is that their roots are in Republican efforts. Power over people. Party over country.

One thing that can be said is that what a lot of people really want is a party that pointedly fights for them and their preferred causes. The Democratic Party tries to lift everyone up, which fundamentally makes it hard for them to make a big show of fighting. Who are they fighting against then, really? The people that they're trying to court or being incessantly told that they should court with all those Republican diner interviews? Even Trump, the brazen convicted criminal who's openly and loudly guilty of so very much more and has been for pretty much his entire life gets turned into a scare story about how Democrats are coming after all of them, reducing the impact. Meanwhile, the Republican Party very pointedly makes a big show of standing for something and loudly complaining about supposedly unpleasant things, nevermind that they're largely responsible for most of the actually bad things that they complain about. They're "strong!" They're fighting against "bad" things! Appeal!
 
Dead Trump now golfing
stonekettle
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Okay, they spotted him on the way to the golf course, BUT how do we know he's not actually dead?He LOOKS like a bloated rotting corpse smeared in funeral makeup. Right? You see it. What if he's been dead all along only he doesn't know he's dead? You guys saw that movie, we just have to figure out his unfinished business so he'll cross over.Somebody find Haley Joel Osmet.

Who?
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Haley Joel Osment - Wikipedia

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P.J. Denyer said:
I know it's nothing but a rumour that he's dead. But I've just bought a bottle of bubbly. Just in case.
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Interesting. A friend called me early this morning asking if I'd heard that very rumor, which I hadn't. He sited the Pentagon Pizza Index as being busier than it was when they hit Iran.

pizzint.watch
 
"[Drumpf] is dead" is apparently trending on r/politics.

At least according to a YouTube I just saw
 
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