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SnotFlickerman
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File this one with "and Trump won't instate a national abortion ban"
Based on how many dumb fucking kids voted for Trump... more like every child left behind.
Notepad++
better get more equipment for it before the tariffs kick in
Well, and with the Trump admin incoming: they're not wrong. The FCC will probably be gone within two years.
Never ask a woman her age.
Never ask a man his salary.
Never ask an OnlyFans model what happens in Dubai.
Well he's going to make it nigh-impossible to afford electronic equipment or compute power.
Piracy may be fine, but the tools that facilitate it will be broken.
Get what you can now, and embrace the return to sneakernets.
I hate to say it but what the fuck did you expect vacationing in an authoritarian shithole???
Like, really? Thought it would be no big deal? What the fuck, this is what's coming to America, so get ready.
I'm almost sure all my past online comments against Trump will one day be held against me in a court of law.
who are the people that helped Obama win with his campaign of hope and change.
They became the establishment that helped Hillary lose to Trump.
Obama had a winning message and he failed to follow through on a lot of it. It was about hope and more importantly CHANGE.
The change never came, and the candidates that came after never promised hope OR change. People stopped believing Democrats were offering either hope or change. Because they weren't, they were offering "don't rock the boat, it might upset the rich."
I mean, even Obama offered up RomneyCare instead of something more progressive. People got wise to that over time. It made them feel defeated.
Trump offered change, it's that simple. Most in this country are sadly too uneducated to really realize what his type of change means.
Democrats were too busy worrying about whether they could actually implement policy, so they tried to only make promises they could keep, and with Republicans obstructing everything they did, they stopped making real, useful promises to the electorate.
People loved Sanders whether he could make his agenda happen or not, case in point. Nobody likes a policy wonk telling them "no, wait longer."
I think they just got stuck in a rut. They have been dealing with an all-obstructionist Republican party for nearly 16 years now, ever since Obama was elected, if not before.
They stopped promising the moon because they became policy wonks and focused on what was realistically achievable, only making promises they thought they could turn into reality with an obstructionist party blocking them.
Hillary Clinton not-so-famously did a bunch of number crunching on a Basic Income and then said it wouldn't work, so that's why she didn't campaign on anything like that.
They stopped being dreamers, started being policy wonks, and were unwilling to make promises they didn't think they could keep. Think about the amount of messaging in the last few elections about how progressives were asking too much because we have to be realistic about what we can pass with only a sliver of a majority. People rightly view that as starting from a point of compromise and thus as weak.
Trump promised to smash norms and ignore laws to get his promises done, which people wrongly view as strong. When Republicans like Trump make promises, they are completely unburdened by whether they can accomplish them or not: make the promise, follow through be damned.
Nobody wants a policy wonk telling them they need to wait until their kids are middle aged for things to get better for their family, and the Democrats somehow failed to realize this in 16 years.
Obama was the last Democrat to run on change in the system. Everyone else has been Bush-era-style "Stay the course" status-quo enabling.