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Perun said:
Isn't that right-wing Evangelicalism in a nutshell?
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Yup.

It's a movement focused more on not doing the "bad" things or associating with the "wrong people", and not mercy, love, charity, kindness, etc.

You know, I think there was a guy who pretty directly confronted a group of people/religious leaders who were the same way. Can't remember his name though. I think it starts with a J... :D
 
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DEI has been a global success in business and government by recruiting people otherwise unconsidered into positions, but it's the recent bugaboo on the right, and maybe it is a good idea to consider why opening hiring to people who aren't white men is such a bad thing for a certain class of people.

The cause of the airline crash is almost certainly the lack of qualified ATCs in the United States, an issue that goes to Reagan.

BTW, the president who enacted DEI for the FAA?
Donald J Trump.
 
Well, there's now 25% tariffs on Canadian goods. The government here will counter-tariff American goods, and may eventually put export taxes on oil - or turn off the taps altogether. I firmly support counter-tariffs.

Trump's tariffs may add 20 cents to the gallon to the price of US gas instantly, but that's nothing compared to what'll happen if we take retaliatory action.

This man is an idiot and he's going to drive both countries into bankruptcy.
 
LooseCannon said:
Well, there's now 25% tariffs on Canadian goods. The government here will counter-tariff American goods, and may eventually put export taxes on oil - or turn off the taps altogether. I firmly support counter-tariffs.

Trump's tariffs may add 20 cents to the gallon to the price of US gas instantly, but that's nothing compared to what'll happen if we take retaliatory action.

This man is an idiot and he's going to drive both countries into bankruptcy.
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Thanks Trump voters!
 
Detective Beauregard said:
I’ll say this: As much as I disagree with the concept, blaming DEI right off the bat for this crash before the facts can be revealed is a rare bad move on Trump’s part.
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This is what the right does all the time though. Just look at the recent shit at the turn of the year. When the New Orleans attacker's name was leaked (Shamsud-Din Jabbar), the right immediately latched on and ranted about open borders. Turns out, he was a US citizen and had been a realtor until he was radicalized.

Meanwhile, after the Cybertruck explosion outside a Trump hotel, people were calling it yet another assassination attempt on Trump himself, regardless of the fact that he wasn't anywhere near that seen. Then, as it turned out, the dude was a Trump supporter who did all this to signal his support.

What was the next move? No retraction, just a shift towards, "Wow, look at how bad our own citizens are. Think of how much worse the people flooding over the borders are!"

Shit is insane.
 
Soooooooo we slapped a 25% tariff on Canadian imports because of, let me read my note card here...

...40 (that's four zero) lbs of fentanyl that came over the border in 2023.
 
Flaming Blimp Crash said:
Soooooooo we slapped a 25% tariff on Canadian imports because of, let me read my note card here...

...40 (that's four zero) lbs of fentanyl that came over the border in 2023.
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Of course, the real reason is that Trump is an idiot who doesn't know jack shit about economics and is advised by people who only care for their own personal well-being America needs to be protected from foreign meanyheads.
 
Detective Beauregard said:
blaming DEI right off the bat for this crash before the facts can be revealed is a rare bad move on Trump’s part.
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You misspelled “one in a series of endless bad moves”

Perun said:
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BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
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Whatever your stance on gender topics, you will have to admit that this is censorship of science.
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No, that’s the beauty: they don’t have to admit anything. They will ignore it, pretend it’s something other than what it is, or, at best, blame someone else for it.

LooseCannon said:
Well, there's now 25% tariffs on Canadian goods. The government here will counter-tariff American goods, and may eventually put export taxes on oil - or turn off the taps altogether. I firmly support counter-tariffs.

Trump's tariffs may add 20 cents to the gallon to the price of US gas instantly, but that's nothing compared to what'll happen if we take retaliatory action.

This man is an idiot and he's going to drive both countries into bankruptcy.
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Surely, tariffs will help the American people! Surely, this is going to directly impact our economy in a positive way and is not just a baby having a temper tantrum! Surely, this will result in these pitiful other countries bending the knee and kissing Trump’s diaper!

Trump supporters: we’re still waiting for a rational response as to why any of this stuff is positive. I’m sure we’ll be waiting forever.
 
Well, once the tariffs (and there needs to be a lot more tariffs for that to sort of work out) are hitting prices enough, Trump can then lower taxes, and poof: The billionaires win.
 
MrKnickerbocker said:
No, that’s the beauty: they don’t have to admit anything. They will ignore it, pretend it’s something other than what it is, or, at best, blame someone else for it.
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Nah, they’ll just say it’s fake woke science.

By the way, here’s some more fascism for your Sunday morning:

I have a great suggestion for making voting simpler and less fraudulent, but I don’t think the House would like it as it does involve the use of guillotines.
 
I've never seen Canada this united. This feeling is bigger than post 9/11.

r/Canada, a notoriously right wing subreddit, is cheering Trudeau. The Bloc and Parti Quebecois are committing to full participation with the government on tariff responses. Even Danielle Smith, Canada's Quisling, is getting onboard. Canadians are fucking furious right now.

The Americans do not seem to realize that we buy things they make that we don't need, because we like them. They buy our oil and gas, our iron and nickel and potash and uranium, because they need it.
 
Starting a trade war with Canada is the dumbest and most unnecessary thing a US president could do apart from starting a real war with Canada, and I'm not putting it past that idiot anymore either.
 
Perun said:
starting a real war with Canada, and I'm not putting it past that idiot anymore either.
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I was half thinking earlier that maybe after the US feels the repercussions of Trump’s actions he might use it as an excuse to declare war on Canada. It’s probably just my paranoia talking but after all his talk about annexing the country my brain inevitably goes there.
 
He's probably going to go after Panama before that to distract from his, very obviously and already proven after less than two weeks catastrophic, domestic policy, but you can't know what his lizard brain is cooking up.
 
they're really excited for inflation to skyrocket because of 40 lbs of fentanyl that crosses the northern border.
 
Perun said:
He's probably going to go after Panama before that to distract from his, very obviously and already proven after less than two weeks catastrophic, domestic policy, but you can't know what his lizard brain is cooking up.
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BREAKING: Marco Rubio has presented an ultimatum to the President of Panama regarding the Panama canal, per Axios: "Absent immediate changes regarding Chinese influence, the US will take measures necessary to protect its rights under the Treaty"
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You are completely correct.
 
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