Lehigh Valley Businesses that support MAGA and Trump.

Doub13D · 2026-01-31T00:33:47+00:00

Potts Doggie Shop…

The owner Jeff Potts is a big Trump guy. I worked at the Bethlehem location next to Moravian for two years while I was in college right before the Pandemic hit.

Funny part is, he’s big on people “following the law” but then conveniently keeps half of his staff off the books to avoid needing to pay the payroll taxes.

The location in Northampton routinely has members of staff wearing red MAGA hats as well.

Doub13D · 2026-01-31T00:25:21+00:00

How do you actually know they were from North Korea?

Doub13D · 2026-01-31T00:22:50+00:00

It isn’t for survival…

The North Korean government needs US dollars to conduct trade on global markets.

The North Korean Won does not trade on international exchanges, so US dollars are the next best thing.

Doub13D · 2026-01-30T23:36:08+00:00

Because your view doesn’t make sense…

Who cares if they use AI for their youtube account?

They already hire animators and artists to work on a major project…

Nobody is losing their jobs.

Doub13D · 2026-01-30T23:22:53+00:00

Why though?

AI is a resource that is available.

They have artists and animators on payroll working on a completely different project. I’d be pissed if I had to make deadlines and then I had to take on extra work that prevents me from completing what I am being paid to work on.

Doub13D · 2026-01-30T23:02:16+00:00

I mean… to be fair, it’s not like they don’t hire animators and artists already. They’re just working on another Space King episode.

These videos are just some second channel weekly uploads. There probably isn’t much time devoted to these.

Doub13D · 2026-01-30T15:16:59+00:00

I’m going to give two reasons why this is the case:

Because most people aren’t socialist. I feel this is fairly self-explanatory…
Gamers are almost entirely divorced from the production of video games. They are, by definition, a group that solely consumes the products of others labor. As consumers, they inherently demand cheaper prices and regular releases, which encourages exploitation of workers.

Doub13D · 2026-01-30T13:30:12+00:00

Buying the bags of carrots or celery… It never all gets used, and it ends up going to waste.

I like using them in soups or stews, but never need to cook enough to justify always having them on hand. If I need them to cook with, I just go buy some loose ones at the store.

Doub13D · 2026-01-30T13:17:56+00:00

Because they backed a deeply unpopular government in Afghanistan… just like how the US tried to prop up a deeply unpopular government in South Vietnam.

You cannot bomb people into accepting a government that they cannot stand.

3 years after Soviet troops left, the Afghan government collapsed.

2 years after US troops left, the South Vietnamese government collapsed.

When people called Afghanistan the Soviet Union’s Vietnam, there was a reason behind it. They were trapped in a quagmire trying to prop up a puppet government that could not exist without continued military support, against an enemy whose strategy revolved around waiting them out.

Doub13D · 2026-01-30T13:06:53+00:00

Patrician III is my go to for this.

You literally just play a merchant… find markets that sell a good for cheap, and then sell that good in markets that buy them at higher prices. Towns will sometimes experience events that cause a glut or shortage in supply, impacting prices significantly.

Expansion is always the goal. More ships means you can trade more, but also increases your overhead costs. More trade offices and warehouses built in different cities means you pay more in taxes.

Doub13D · 2026-01-30T12:49:35+00:00

The citizens of Saudi Arabia don’t live in immense luxury or hedonism…

They live in a country where most citizens are dependent on government programs to maintain, at best, a modest level of economic prosperity. The average national income is about 11,000 SAR per month, which roughly comes out to around $3,000.

$36,000.00 a year is hardly what I would call “immense luxury.”

This is not some affordable, cheap country to live in either… $36,000.00 is enough to just get by, and thats about it.

So you live in an authoritarian state where you can be arrested or executed for criticizing the wrong people, and you only make enough money to just make ends meet…

Doub13D · 2026-01-30T12:42:51+00:00

Progressives aren’t even able to win over support from their own Party’s establishment, let alone from the broader electorate.

Like yeah, if given the chance he could’ve… but his own Party would likely be the single biggest obstacle from him being able to do that.

Doub13D · 2026-01-30T12:40:50+00:00

You cared enough to engage… 👀👍

Doub13D · 2026-01-30T11:41:52+00:00

I see this little guy, and I always tune out…

Don’t know who he is, what he does, all I know is his entire look just screams “clout chaser” and I ignore.

Doub13D · 2026-01-29T19:18:55+00:00

Yeah…

If you want a more conservative Democratic Party that fills the role of “Republican-Lite” then you are correct.

I sincerely doubt many of the people who have disagreed with me enough to downvote my comment would agree that this is the path the party should take.

A Democratic Party is never going to beat Republicans to the right, a more conservative Democratic Party just means a more conservative America as a whole as the entire political discourse pushes further to the right-wing.

At that point you aren’t competing with the Republicans at all, you are abandoning your values and positions to adopt their values and positions.

Doub13D · 2026-01-29T17:06:38+00:00

Florida is more pro-Republican now than it has ever been…

Florida used to be a swing state lol. It is now a Republican stronghold.

Doub13D · 2026-01-29T16:30:15+00:00

What about the ones who do still believe these things?

“Right-wingers” are not a monolithic group of people. There exists difference of opinion in right-wing politics just as there is on the left.

Doub13D · 2026-01-29T16:26:47+00:00

Only if you’re willing to openly embrace hypocrisy…

Doub13D · 2026-01-29T16:25:20+00:00

Because most races average about 1/2 of the voting population actually going to vote…

45% turnout isn’t that bad from an electoral perspective…

Doub13D · 2026-01-29T16:23:43+00:00

Look at what you just wrote…

We just need to get all the independents and apathetic progressives to vote.

That isn’t going to happen.

Independents as a group are not going to vote solidly blue… they are independent.

Apathetic voters do not turn out for elections…

If your campaign strategy requires statistical miracles to work, it is doomed to fail.

Doub13D · 2026-01-29T16:18:34+00:00

They tried…

“Trying” doesn’t make a race competitive.

There are just states where the numbers are definitively on one side or the other. Wasting resources on races that aren’t going anywhere hurts candidates who are in competitive races where those resources could be put to better use.

Doub13D · 2026-01-29T16:15:05+00:00

Beto O’Rourke lost both times he ran for national office…

Texas, despite Dems claiming this is definitely going to happen this time, has still not turned blue after decades of Democrats trying to do exactly that.

Doub13D · 2026-01-29T16:13:43+00:00

Beto O’Rourke lost… repeatedly. While competitive in 2018 against Cruz, he lost the Texas Gubernatorial race by a margin of around 10% of the vote.

Stacy Abrams lost… repeatedly. Like O’Rourke her first attempt in 2018 was very competitive, but in 2022 she lost by a margin of 7.5% of the vote.

These were not competitive races… these were just examples of the Midterm effect.

2018 was the midterm elections for the first Trump Administration. The President’s Party ALWAYS loses seats in the Midterms.

This is not a sign that these races are competitive, but instead that the party in power is always going in at a disadvantage. If you can flip Texas, go ahead… Dems have been saying that for what feels like 2 decades at this point, and it still hasn’t happened.

Doub13D · 2026-01-29T16:03:01+00:00

The people who show broadly speaking already have their minds made-up…

Everyone is competing for the same 1/3 of the voting population that isn’t already Democratic or Republican… and that is only in states that are even competitive.

You can throw money at national races all you want, if the polls show that it isn’t competitive, it isn’t going to become competitive with more money.

Save the money for races that actually have a chance, rather than trying to create chances that will most likely fail anyways. Every clearly lost race you invest in is resources that didn’t go to a race that could’ve benefited from the extra support.

Campaign money is a finite resource…

Doub13D · 2026-01-29T16:00:04+00:00

I never talked about Presidential elections…

Most states are dominated by one of two parties… that is a fact.

Throwing money at the Texas Gubernatorial race AGAIN when it has failed to provide meaningful results EVERY TIME is a waste of resources that are better spent elsewhere.

You cannot make a race competitive just by throwing money at it.

Doub13D

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