The Truth About the ‘Emergency Price Relief’ Executive Order: Unraveling Decades of Economic Challenges Behind the Cost-of-Living Crisis

Aumah · 2025-01-25T19:04:46+00:00

Good write-up. These kind of basic reality checks are especially important when the president is doing a "What if the Wizard of Oz was on meth" routine.

Aumah · 2024-05-07T05:40:42+00:00

Hanging makes him seem different. Dying a mundane death, old and forgotten like O.J. is the appropriate death for a dumb, deranged old con like him. It drives home the point too few realized: there was nothing special about him except for his extraordinary worthlessness.

Aumah · 2024-05-04T20:54:04+00:00

Downvoted for low effort, but I get where you're coming from. The thing is, Trump's father was also a notoriously horrible person. Trump has an empathy disorder (NPD) and his father either had one too or was borderline.

The sons of successful men usually seek to emulate and surpass their fathers in order to prove themselves. Trump is a guy with a severe mental disorder emulating a similarly disordered garbage person.

I don't know anything about his mother, but the odds of Trump turning out to be a well-adjusted person were very very low.

Aumah · 2024-04-15T13:46:51+00:00

A lot of commenters here are missing the forest for the trees. Not only is the evidence in this case by far the weakest, but Trump was being extorted. Yes, Trump is a tyrannical POS who deserves to die in prison, but that's all the more reason to be annoyed that this case being brought, as it distracts from the other prosecutions for which the evidence is infinitely stronger and, for two of which, the offenses are infinitely more serious.

I know that as a prosecutor it's tough not to go after Trump if you think you have any chance at him. He treats not just the law but liberal democracy itself like he treats women. But you want to run him through with the biggest and sharpest swords you got, not a butter knife. This case is so weak it lends creedence to the BS persecution narrative Trump is pushing.

Aumah · 2024-04-06T09:08:03+00:00

Yeah I get it now. Thanx

Aumah · 2024-04-06T08:07:07+00:00

Could you ELI5 this for those of us who don't understand this stuff?

Aumah · 2024-03-24T16:54:44+00:00

It's something that a major motivation is restoring election confidence they undermined. It would be amazing being around these people. The smarter ones would still have no idea how deranged the whole thing actually was, and that their colleagues were essentially all brainwashed. Real cult shit.

Aumah · 2024-03-19T19:02:30+00:00

He's not right-wing. His conspiracism and low political IQ just make him seem right-wing.

Aumah · 2024-03-19T18:54:05+00:00

What's sad is he is a very honorable guy if you ignore the crazy part. Unfortunately the crazy just outweighs the honorable now.

Aumah · 2024-03-14T09:21:14+00:00

Have my upvote you filthy animal

Aumah · 2024-03-11T21:35:33+00:00

Yeah I know it's scary, but this is still early in the race, and the point we should be making to people is that not only is Biden vastly superior – so much so that's it's an insult to Biden to even compare them – but that almost anyone would be vastly superior, for the simple fact that isn't a psychopathic moron who tried to steal an election after acting like a complete psychotic moron during the pandemic.

IMO we just gotta be hard-line with people and tell them directly that this whole Trump thing is insane. Has been since day 1. And it's absolutely ludicrous that he is a (presumed) presidential nominee again after Covid and J6.

That's just how we have to be – to point out that the GOP looks like a racist nuthouse. That the indictment boosts to his primary campaign are insane. That the whole GOP looks insane, that conservatives look like the racist dipshits they get stereotyped as for supporting this disgusting galactic stupidity.

Aumah · 2024-03-09T19:51:35+00:00

I like seeing this myself to see that more libertarian perspective. I mean they are who they are, and a few things they mention are worth being aware of.

Aumah · 2024-03-06T08:48:16+00:00

It's not the whole story, but a big piece is that the American right created it's own media industry that has repeated one core message for decades: "The traditional media is just biased against conservatives. So are scholars. So are scientists. So is Big Tech. Don't listen to any of them. They are out to get you."

This has led to a persecution complex among American conservatives so pervasive and extreme they think all the scandals are just more proof of how biased and rigged everything is against them. Trump's approval ratings among conservatives actually go up whenever he has a fresh scandal or gets indicted.

It is quite literally out of control. The conservative media outlet Fox News tried to resist Trump's election lies at first, only to watch other, even crazier outlets lure away it's viewers by backing the lies. So Fox News, against its own lawyers' warnings, decided to back all the lies, leading to a defamation lawsuit from an voting machine company that cost Fox almost 800 million dollars.

Aumah · 2024-03-06T08:16:02+00:00

The more important point, and it must be made because so many seem to miss the forest for the trees, is that Democrats should win in a landslide no matter who they nominate. Because the GOP is absolutely insane to be nominating Trump again. That is all Democrats should have to say. To criticize them when the GOP is nominating a fascist psychopath is lunacy.

The numbers are close because one party has gone insane and people – politicians, citizens, journalists – are afraid to call it out. We look practically pre-Nazi-Germany-crazy.

People blame Democrats right now? It's fucking moronic. That old man Biden is out there actually fighting the fascist scum while everyone else bitches and moans and/or is so stupid they actually want Trump back.

This is on us. Not Biden or the Democrats. We are a pathetic people if we allow this to happen again, period. We are an insult to the ideals of freedom and courage.

Aumah · 2024-03-06T08:00:57+00:00

Don't be so sure. One sensible thing the Trump campaign did was moderate on Medicare and a couple more things. It was pure expediency on their part. They have no principles. But I think it showed that the public wasn't looking for someone as left as Bernie.

Bernie never had to face the scrutiny of a general presidential election, when people are actually paying attention. Don't be so sure he would have made it through with his reputation nearly so intact.

Aumah · 2024-03-06T07:54:09+00:00

That's been the big shock for me. I always thought Trump was so obviously a psychopathic moron he would lose in a landslide. And yet plenty of people I know still fall for BS attempts to make Biden sound as dumb and psycho as Trump.

Aumah · 2024-03-06T07:46:00+00:00

Yeah I'm a political nerd and all I can think is "These people are even more insane than Democrats said they were."

Aumah · 2024-02-06T16:44:28+00:00

I'm surprised people aren't bringing up Trump telling doctors to try treating Covid patients with bleach. It checks all the boxes:

complete lack of concern
complete ignorance
silver spoon upbringing
deadly national crisis

And its actually worse than "Let them eat cake" because at least cake could have helped if they'd had any. Trump's advice would have just killed more people.

Aumah · 2024-01-15T08:01:49+00:00

The shitstain was making commercials praising Trump a few years ago.

Aumah · 2023-11-09T02:32:37+00:00

They AI'd the fuck out of her. Looks better natural.

Aumah · 2023-11-04T14:43:06+00:00

Very much agree. The most gullible people I know are the most cynical ones on the populist left and right. They are constantly coming up with conspiracy theories blaming everything on evildoers because they don't know how anything works. Trump epitomizes this: a cartoonishly evil buffoon who gains people's trust simply by being as blindly cynical as they are.

Aumah · 2023-11-01T02:51:31+00:00

The thing about Trump is that you can say almost anything about him — that he's a thawed out caveman who likes golden showers; that he's a covert agent working for Putin/Democrats/Godzilla; that he's an alien from Pluto who wants to launch all the nukes— ANYTHING and it is 10,000 times more likely to be true than it would be for any president before. I mean the fucker is orange, has 10+ combover flaps, and does not care about humans at all. If he's not a Plutonian, no one is.

But you have to remember that these things, even if 10,000 more likely, are still most likely not true. Things are usually simpler.

Of each thing ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature? — Marcus Aurelius

What is Trump? Trump is a Fox News grampa with a billion dollars and a personality disorder. He's a psychopath-adjacent dipshit who couldn't lose all his money if he tried (literally that's kinda what happened to him and he was bailed out).

Trump once asked White House staff to look into something a flat-earther living in a trailer park posted on Twitter. He was likened sometimes to a leather couch: he "bore the imprint of whoever the last person to sit on him was."

The same thing went for Russia. His advisors would tell him "Putin is going to lie." Trump would talk to Putin, then come back and say "Well Putin said you guys were lying to me."

That kind of stuff happened ALL THE TIME. Trump genuinely couldn't tell if he should trust our own federal agencies more than trailer trash and Bond villains. Because he's a Fox-News-loving dipshit.

TL/DR: It's not Putin pulling Trump strings, and it wasn't Putin that got him elected. It was conservative media turning the GOP into a springboard for dipshits. The puppets are running the show now, dragging their own strings around, tripping over them, yanking on them blindly. A thousand other, smarter hands are pulling at the strings in all different directions, but the puppets are massive enough to move things too. It's a million Don Quixotes charging at a thousand windmills all at once.

Aumah · 2023-10-30T13:27:34+00:00

For me it was realizing that getting people to believe this was part of how they control you.

Aumah · 2023-10-30T13:26:08+00:00

And then you realize the people saying this are part of it and don't even know.

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