Y’all are being really judgemental of us. Just cuz our governor is a hypocritical bigot, our AG is a grifting Nazi, and our congresspeople sell us out then abandon us when the going gets tough.
And y’all are acting like just cuz we keep voting for these people that we’re to blame! Can’t you see we’re the victims here??? Please! Quit bullying us with your boobies so that we can go back to fellating our abusers!!!
Hey! I fucking resemble that joke!
I think my comment must be confusing that people think that I’m saying that Hitler faced hyperinflation as part of his reign vs that Hitler ascended to power by being attributed as the only one who could successfully face hyperinflation.
Kinda like people were saying, “these are crazy times, we need a crazy leader.”
Yes, that’s the clown car part I was describing. That this administration is so obsessed yet unable to discern causality, that they’re like “hyperinflation gave Hitler power! Ergo, if I want Hitler’s power, there must be hyperinflation!”
I keep having this one dumb thought, but the longer all this idiocy goes on, the more I feel like I might be right:
Trump’s obsessed with Hitler, right? A big part of Hitler’s ultimate rise to ultimate power was the German people facing hyperinflation. What if Trump and his clown car are looking at that like less of a challenge Hitler faced and more of a checkbox or a milestone. Like, “Gotta have hyperinflation if I wanna be a real Hitler!”
Since autism is preventable, does that mean we’re going to exile autistic children and their mothers for playing part in some sort of crime? Since we’re going full-scale Nazi, it only makes sense for RFKJ to follow in the footsteps of Mengele.
Synthesized citizens, then. They’re gonna deport everyone.
First half: I joke
Second half: I real shit
Ooooffff, I just had a horrible thought:
During the Holocaust, the Nazis wanted to prove they weren’t running death camps, so they invited the Red Cross to visit a fake town they had the Jewish prisoners build and then pretend to run.
He might be alive and possibly even being treated well and the Trump admin selected him and turned him into a firebrand just to “dispel” all the death/work camp “rumors.” If they’re already taking so many notes from the Nazi playbook, this really could be their attempt to instill complacency in the masses and to give more ammo to the MAGA town criers.
Of course, all of this is just wild speculation, even if based on precedent. If this is all intentional, planned, and they play their cards right, they likely could release him just before or after the Democrat lawmakers visit with him describing how fairly he was treated and that the people charged with his care acknowledged this was all an error while taking care of him. This would provide all the cover they’d need to convince everyone that the “system” works and they’re only imprisoning “real criminals.” Once political adversaries start getting swooped up, this whole current scenario could be cannon fodder to claim protestors are crying wolf.
I hope I’m completely wrong and that incompetence will be the name of the game. But there are no good scenarios left either way. This shit needs to end.
Texan born and raised: it is. Didn’t used to be so awful… Well, no… It’s always been shit, it’s just starting to affect us white people.
Seriously, we’re drowning in wasted potential.
Most of family didn’t make it through the last Nazi regime—I hold no beliefs that I’m special enough to survive this one.
I appreciate that explanation! I was just having fun with your choice of punctuation and attributing “a telltale sign of a coming earthquake” with the phone warning.
I commented for the chuckle and got an interesting explanation instead!
Don’t undersell it. This convicted felon was impeached twice and found liable for rape before we elected him again!
USA! USA! US- Hey! I’m a citizen, you can’t deport me!!!
-Me sharpening my Hot Wheels collection-
TIL in the moments preceding an earthquake, nature will rumble and send out warnings to phones
I always wonder: Why is it tied so closely to American evangelical Christianity?
The answer to this, from what I understand, is SUPER fascinating and a rather straight line with only a single detour. In one word: racism.
Prior to the civil rights movement, you’ll see a higher rate of people who consider themselves religious or of faith, but fewer fundamentalists. When schools started integrating and leading up to Brown v Board of Education, a lot of racist assholes were upset that their child might go to school with someone colored of color (holy shit, what’s wrong with me today??).
Since public schools were becoming a cesspool of inclusivity (THE HORROR!), private schools realized they could become a safe-haven for segregationists and make bank off of an easily-exploitable, single-issue population. A trusted source of private schooling were churches and they were more than happy to do a racism if it meant easy money.
The religious schools were mutually beneficial for the parents, too. Their kid didn’t go to private school because the parents were racist and wanted their children away from the “colored folk”, they sent their kid to private school because God was super-important and needed to be in the kids’ schooling. Why? Cuz we’re super-religious now!
That’s the ticket! We’re not racist, we’re religious!!! To keep up appearances, the parents would drag their family to church to prove how godly and un-racist they were.
In summary: why are the bigots often intertwined with evangelicals? Cuz you can use God to justify how much you truly suck.
Guarantee you that the incompetence is on purpose. It wasn’t a genocide, it was a few clerical errors, some bad AI, and a couple of lines of bad code from a junior dev. Just a big ol’ whoopsie where everyone but the Nazis died.
FRIEND!
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