I was being a bit facetious, but yeah. It’s a pretty transparent ploy to get the birth rate up for as little money as possible. God forbid line doesn’t go up always and forever, for all eternity.

Important Note: For perpetuating school shootings, not stopping them. Absolutely not for stopping them. Unless we’re talking about the shooter taking themselves out when they’re done.

I’m still baffled as to how they continue to do this unimpeded.

These people are in court trying to enter the country “the right way” by going through the legal system and are getting ambushed by ICE and Homeland Security during their hearings. Unless the desired outcome is to depress the population of “good ones” trying to stay in the country via legal means by scaring them with the threat of sudden deportation, I don’t see what this accomplishes. This war on immigration is equally as stupid and futile as the war on drugs.

Xenophobia has completely fried the brains of most Americans. This shit isn’t normal and never should be.

Trump didn’t pay them, the American public did with the tariff revenue. He has absolutely no qualms spending other people’s money on stupid shit, especially if it makes him look good in their eyes. He would never directly pay for anybody’s relief.

Why would he do that?

It’s not why, but when. He already did this during his first term, the first time he started a trade war with China (which he lost).

He didn’t bail out the farmers because he actually cares about them, but because there was an election in 2020 that he was trying to win and needed their support.

Remains to be seen if he will bother to help them again this time. He’s talking about a 3rd term and other frightening shit, but his second term has been moving so fast that I’d like to think he doesn’t care about what the public thinks anymore, he just wants to extract as much value of of the position as possible.

How about some of that socialism for the rest of us, and not just for breeders and soybean farmers?

Trump and Jinping are playing a game of chicken and Trump has already slammed on the brakes while Jinping still has 1000m of track left in front of him.

If I were them, I wouldn’t make a deal either - Trump had to be reminded by all the big box giants just how much he needs cheap Chinese goods to keep the shelves stocked. They have all the power and hold a shit ton of US national debt so they can wait out a trade war indefinitely while Trump will use any tariff profits to bail out farmers and other industries impacted by them not being able to sell to China at a 140% markup or whatever they set their nonsensical made-up tariff rates at.

Oh yeah, decades at a minimum. How long has it been since Reagan was president? We’re still dealing with the fallout from his administration all these years later. Granted, Reagan was just a bad president that could project the confidence of a competent one so he got a lot of leeway from the political establishment and I don’t think Trump enjoys the same amount of trust from our institutions, but he’s cranking the dial up to 11 in terms of trying to get away with shit that will change the country possibly forever and in an objectively bad way.

And the left will forever be trying to play catch-up as we waste consecutive terms undoing the harm done rather than pushing a progressive agenda.

Scheduling conflict. Can we do chloroform at lunch instead?

Negative stuff does come out from time to time, especially when Russia makes big advances, but the underdog effect means that Ukraine typically gets more attention and media coverage for their successful military operations. Russia has had scant few successes over the past few years so they are spreading propaganda that make them look as if they are winning which is getting picked up and parroted by Trump and other neo-fascists in the West.

IMO, it’s not enough to just have Musk step down from the board, quit as CEO, or divest himself from the company. I didn’t like Tesla as a company or a brand very much before Elon went crazy. My issue with the company is that they were notorious slavedrivers in their factories since the very beginning and forced people to work overtime or risk being laid off to meet production quotas. I tried to interview at the Tesla Fremont factory and the guy doing interviews told me pretty straight-up that if I wasn’t willing to work 2 hours overtime every weekday, work on Saturdays and every other Sunday then I wouldn’t last a month at the company, so I didn’t take the job. As far as the brand goes, their quality control issues should be well known at this point - I see brand new Teslas with panel gaps wider than my finger rolling off of lots, so you know shit on the inside isn’t going to be any more well put together.

If I were to ever buy one, Musk would have to not be in the picture at all, the company would have to issue a public formal apology to the consumers for both the behavior of Musk while acting as CEO and also for the numerous lies told about the features and capabilities of the vehicles, and finally they would have to start gradually repairing their brand reputation by improving the QC process and start making cars built to last.

I don’t see any of that happening any time soon.

My interpretation is that he was implying that there is a way to escape eternal punishment, no matter how grievous the sin, and that given enough time everybody can come to grips with the wrongs they have committed and start over again with a clean slate. Either that, or his idea of a loving and merciful God is so forgiving and magnanimous that He could not bear to send even one soul to eternal damnation.

I used to read a webcomic from ages ago called Jack (Edgy NSFW material so Google it at your own risk) that had a lot of interesting takes on Abrahamic mythology. One of the things that resonated with me at the time was the concept of a personal heaven and hell, in which heaven is a reflection of your own idea of a utopia (even if that utopia for one person might be insanity for another) but hell is a reflection of the evil deeds one has committed in life and you are forced to be subjected to the same evil over and over again every day until the sinner learns the error of their ways, asks God for forgiveness, and is allowed to be born into the world once again with no knowledge of what had transpired in the afterlife.

It’s a meh comic with bad artwork for the majority of it, but some bits were really good. So good that I still remember them all these years later.

I don’t want to be caught dead driving one of those fucking nazimobiles. I would not take one even if it were free.

Furries: “I would like to purchase this rock.”

Last I checked DJT still alive and well so this doesn’t check out, Marjorie.

lmao I can’t believe that line is actually in the description :D

It was funny watching all the conservative cucks dogpile on the comments section of the MSNBC youtube video that broke the story over the weekend, and every one of them was putting their ignorance of the constitution on full display - more proof that they don’t actually understand anything about how government works and should not be taken seriously or given any kind of real power or authority.

Pope meets with JD Vance.

Says the Trump admin’s immigration policy is a grave sin.

Refuses to elaborate.

Dies.

Based Holiness.

He’s a modern day John Henry.

Piggies have a weak spot on their noses. Got it.