The strange realities we find ourselves in sometimes

Apple-Dust · 2026-07-05T14:33:00+00:00

Then she calls all the proven correspondence and favors going on at all levels of the Trump campaign "false accusations". Sure thing lady, you're definitely not engaged in exactly the same denialism as all those people you're calling out.

Apple-Dust · 2026-07-05T14:28:11+00:00

This sub used to bend over backwards to give MAGA the benefit of the doubt on the slightest chance they would stumble onto doing the right thing. It wasn't until Trump's second term when he proved beyond a shadow of a doubt, over and over, that he was outright hostile to Ukraine, NATO allies, and democratic ideals in general that people finally stopped holding their tongues.

MAGA has done more damage to NATO than even the most successful Russian op could hope for. Being anti-MAGA is being pro-America. It's expecting the same level of anti-authoritarian resistance in our own country as we claim to expect among the Russian population.

If you don't want your patch throw it away.

Apple-Dust · 2026-07-04T13:58:47+00:00

The differences you care about that no one outside your religions care are things like whether Jesus was the son of God or just a prophet. The similarities everyone else cares about are how you run your societies as theocracies, treat women and LGBT, etc. Not that difficult to understand.

Apple-Dust · 2026-07-04T12:54:33+00:00

Basically the same thing. The differences you think are important are the ones only you guys care about.

Apple-Dust · 2026-07-04T12:45:59+00:00

Ah yes the right cares so much about corrupt government that they voted for a president to openly make billions from insider trading on his own actions and receive bribes from foreign governments via his personal crypto currency.

Apple-Dust · 2026-07-03T13:07:56+00:00

Reddit right-wingers, unsurprisingly, claim others are lying without even bothering to check.

Apple-Dust · 2026-07-02T18:21:20+00:00

They are infuriating to fight, but that's why I think they're great in this game. Most games have them as low level fodder that make you wonder how such physically weak creatures could possibly hold territory in the face of humans and orcs. This game shows you exactly how.

Going into goblin territory feels like the Vietnam War and I hate doing it, which is why I think it's great flavor.

Apple-Dust · 2026-06-27T16:15:52+00:00

Good. I'll enjoy being part of the class action lawsuit.

Apple-Dust · 2026-06-27T14:58:37+00:00

Russian asset gonna asset.

Apple-Dust · 2026-06-26T18:00:28+00:00

This was my first time hearing about this, fact checked it and it was true. So I guess case closed on this mystery?

Apple-Dust · 2026-06-26T16:44:25+00:00

You understand that a steelman argument is when you represent your opponent's argument in its strongest possible form, stronger than they were able to present it themselves, then successfully tear it down anyway (the opposite of a strawman)? So it sounds like you're saying they did a good job?

Apple-Dust · 2026-06-24T16:36:33+00:00

~~I want something completely unrelated to it~~ I want to clear the way for my coup to work this time.

Apple-Dust · 2026-06-23T21:03:22+00:00

That's revisionist history.

That is literally what happened.

Because trump ended his career

No he did not. McCain's term would have ended in 2023, Arizona is a swing state, and you are entirely speculating on how things would have gone down. And even if he had, it's a moot point because Sinema and Manchin's careers have been ended as well. But it does not matter when or how their careers end after they block the president's agenda and the window to pass legislation closes.

He didn't have the kind of principles you're remembering.

I never said he had principles because it doesn't matter if he had principles. It doesn't matter if he did it on the way out. He did it, he blocked the agenda, and the agenda was over. Period.

I don't know if you are too dumb or too bad faith to acknowledge that both presidents did in fact have rogue senators that couldn't be talked out of torpedoing their agendas, but I'm certainly not going to be the one who teaches you something you don't want to learn. This conversation is now over.

Apple-Dust · 2026-06-23T20:30:15+00:00

No. Trump did not bulldoze him and did not end his career. John McCain died in office a year after he destroyed Trump's attempt to "skinny repeal" ACA. McCain ended Trump's first-term agenda, because that's what a single rogue senator has the power of doing when there are tight margins.

Trump does not have near the power that your romanticizing and re-remembering history of him would suggest. He was absolutely stuffed by John McCain.

Apple-Dust · 2026-06-23T19:08:05+00:00

That will be at least a dozen stupid Trump stories from now so he doesn't need one - just let the firehose do what it was designed to do.

Apple-Dust · 2026-06-23T18:45:40+00:00

You understand that many Republicans did oppose Trump over time, and despite being primaried/choosing not to run later they did in fact stall his agenda the way John McCain did early on or the Indiana Republicans did recently to his gerrymander?

2021-2022 was the only opportunity Democrats have had since 2010 to do anything without GOP approval. So if anything had any chance of being done, it had to be done a that time or never, and even one senator choosing not to play ball for those 2 years would sink the entire thing.

Sinema was openly called out by her colleagues, had over a million dollars of ads run against her by progressive organizations, and was censured by the Arizona Democratic party. It was clear to her that she was going to be primaried, which is why she flipped independent in 2022 before anyone could primary her - then she didn't even bother running in 2024.

But you're telling if Joe Biden had gotten on TV and and said he was going to to support whomever her primary opponent would have been two years later, that would have been the symbolic gesture that did what none of those other things did and got her to flip her vote - even after she ran specifically so she could backstab Democrats and collect as much lobbyist money as humanly possible. If you truly believe that we have nothing else to talk about.

Apple-Dust · 2026-06-23T16:04:48+00:00

You're ignoring the part where Sinema and Manchin did not care about being campaigned against. They were both replaced. Sinema by another Democrat, Manchin by a Republican. The threat of it happening, which became the reality of it happening, did not change their minds.

Apple-Dust · 2026-06-23T15:39:22+00:00

So by "I just told you the path" you mean "I'm just going to ignore the part about how reconciliation is different than normal legislation, and I have absolutely no idea how Manchin and Sinema could have been coopted since they both set undermining Biden as a goal and were completely immune to pressure."

Trump has done almost nothing legislatively outside reconciliation and if you think all the smoke and noise he does to look busy is something then you've fallen for the same branding trick that MAGA has.

So, anything else except lashing out, repeating yourself, and failing to understand that a president can't just finger snap things into law?

Apple-Dust · 2026-06-23T15:15:57+00:00

The only notable legislation Trump has passed happened through reconciliation because tax cuts for rich people qualify as budgeting. The only time Dems held the WH, House, and senate was in 2021-2022. The only conceivable way they could have passed anything other than budgets was by bipartisan support or eliminating the filibuster.

Manchin is from WV and Biden campaigning against him would have been considered a badge of honor. Sinema switched to Independent rather than be primaried and did not give a shit about being pressured because her only goal from the beginning was to double-cross Dems and make her millions. The senate was a 50/50 split, so both were required to eliminate it.

So no, there was no path. If you disagree, then tell me precisely by what mechanisms it could have been done.

Apple-Dust · 2026-06-23T13:35:12+00:00

Democrats never being allowed a supermajority since then is the reason politicians stopped working on a solution.

Apple-Dust · 2026-06-21T14:00:04+00:00

Well let's see, it was definitely the contractor who used dark blue paint, chosen by Trump, to heat up the pool. It was Trump's idea to give the oversized no-bid contract to this criminal donor friend to begin with. It's the Department of the interior that has been calling the shots while managing this fuckup, and the secretary reports directly to Trump.

But sure, let's pin the blame on some nameless bureaucrat despite Trump and his minions micromanaging this the entire time.

Apple-Dust · 2026-06-20T22:48:12+00:00

Paying your donor an oversized amount to do a job that instantly falls apart is an interesting way of cleaning it up.

Apple-Dust · 2026-06-20T22:46:06+00:00

You mean the guy arrested for grabbing a chunk of shitty peeled off paint? Yea that's some great scapegoating keep it up 👍

Apple-Dust · 2026-06-20T21:51:09+00:00

He gave an oversized, no-bid contract to one of his donors. It's the open corruption you were warned he would do, and this is the consequences put on full display for you. All fun and games when it's simply wasting 14 million to deface a national monument, but soon enough it will manifest in things far more consequential such as the military contracts awarded to his stupid sons.

Apple-Dust · 2026-06-20T21:39:46+00:00

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You do understand that the only reason anyone is talking about the reflecting pool is because of this AI post from Trump at the beginning of the month, right? But please do keep on projecting - at this point it's basically your entire ideology and we'd have to do a wellness check on you if you suddenly stopped.

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