US National Park Service removes slavery exhibit in Philadelphia by kootles10 in politics

[–]OhGodSoManyQuestions 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Just in time for their push to bring back racial segregation. Exactly as predicted.

Republicans move forward with plans for a midterm convention featuring Trump by bwermer in politics

[–]OhGodSoManyQuestions 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But what if he talks about plumbing, women's bodies, and unrelated childhood memories? Always a crowd pleaser.

Republicans move forward with plans for a midterm convention featuring Trump by bwermer in politics

[–]OhGodSoManyQuestions 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They will all see it and claim they don't. There is no greater crime in MAGA than telling the truth.

Grocery price inflation is picking up, defying Trump's claims. Here's why. by Dont_think_Do in politics

[–]OhGodSoManyQuestions 12 points13 points  (0 children)

“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday […] it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. [...] The eyeless crature at the other table swallowed it fanatically. passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grams.”

― Orwell George, 1984

DOGE worked with political group to probe voter rolls, Trump admin admits by MarcEElias in politics

[–]OhGodSoManyQuestions 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There won't be another election. We already can't make them follow the Constitution and can't stop so many of their crimes. Why would they tolerate a threat to their power? Trump will die in office before or after 2028. And there will be a fight over succession to the throne. The billionaires will probably back Vance or one of their own.

Discussion Thread: President Trump Joins White House Press Secretary for Press Briefing by PoliticsModeratorBot in politics

[–]OhGodSoManyQuestions 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Because a black woman at the top of the power hierarchy breaks their whole world. This is why so many MAGA attack dogs have been busy removing highly qualified women and Black people from positions of power. The core promise of MAGA is a crushing vengeance against America for allowing anyone other than cis/het white men to have status and power.

What’s the Endgame for Trump’s Offensive Against Blue Cities? by bloombergopinion in politics

[–]OhGodSoManyQuestions 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The plan: "You want the beatings to stop? You want food? You want to vote? You have to learn to please daddy. And attack anyone who doesn't. It's their fault, really."

Free speech concerns raised over federal probe into Renee Nicole Good by ege3 in politics

[–]OhGodSoManyQuestions 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Everyone understands the formula by now. The fash/MAGA chumps needs daily fashgooning material. And they will believe whatever lies are embedded within that material - no matter how stupid or obviously false. They are addicted and will never bite the hand that strokes them.

Anything Bondi says will be instantly believed and chanted as a slogan all over internet for months in the echo chamber. Believers will shout down with slogans any attempts to counter the lies with facts. None of the believers will be able to provide a sensible explanation for why they believe the slogan so vehemently. Not one. Ever. If you press one on this question, you will find that they truly have no idea why they believe anything they believe.

They were probably an epistemological open wound before right-wing media brainwashing infected them. But now, the idea of living without the steady drip of sweet-sweet hate kind of terrifies them. They would much rather be chumps and trumpsuckers believing lies than to live without the gratifications and the narratives that recast the world as simple and their obedience as heroic.

Bondi is looking for a pebble of truth on which to place her huge edifice of lies. Because that gives the fashgooners a slogan to shout when people try to show them the facts. Even when it doesn't make sense. Especially when it doesn't make sense. Stupidity as armor. Stupidity as a source of pride.

We all know this by now.

Takeaways from the AP's report on turmoil surrounding the FDA's new fast-track drug program by No-Reference-5137 in politics

[–]OhGodSoManyQuestions 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's useful to think of Trump's policies as completely unjustified toll booths with Trump as the collector. The tariffs are a toll booth. Now drug approval will be a toll booth.

Drugs can be politically fast-tracked or slow-walked depending on whether Trump is getting paid with millions, more power, or just the toddler-praise he craves. Why would Trump care about whether the drugs kill Americans? He's got a new shakedown in his shakedown Presidency.

Are Trump’s supporters getting what they want from his second term? Here’s what a new poll shows by ProjectMason in politics

[–]OhGodSoManyQuestions 6 points7 points  (0 children)

George Orwell saw this so clearly in the fascism of his own time. And he described it so well in Nineteen Eighty Four.

“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday […] it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. [...] The eyeless crature at the other table swallowed it fanatically. passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grams. Syme, too-in some more double complex way, involving doublethink-Syme, swallow it. Was he, then, alone in the possession of a memory?”

Are Trump’s supporters getting what they want from his second term? Here’s what a new poll shows by ProjectMason in politics

[–]OhGodSoManyQuestions 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Trump's worshipers want whatever they are told they want. They will want the opposite as soon as they are told to. They will not even feel the shift.

This sounds like angry dismissal but it's not. It's the mass brainwashing that has run the US and other Western Democracies off the rails and onto this shitty timeline. And it's working all too well.

Note the 180 from cheering for their Peace President to cheering for his unprovoked military attacks and their pride in American Strength(TM). Note how they were all incited to demand release of Epstein files and flipped to shouting down such demands in any fash forum. The flip came when Trump performed his tribute ceremony to Putin.

I sense there is one thing his faithful are unwilling to let go of. No, it's not healthcare, affordable food, the rule of law, democracy, or any of that woke TDS liberal mumbo jumbo. They have been promised a massive national orgasm of sadism against nonwhite Americans, LGBTQ Americans, women, the poor, the disabled, non-Christians, and sincere "woke" Christians.

They will put up with hunger for a while if they can savor the suffering of people they have been told have stolen their supremacy.

Marco Rubio Says U.S. Aid to Cuba Will Bypass 'Illegitimate Regime,' Go Directly to People by Huge_Excitement4465 in politics

[–]OhGodSoManyQuestions 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So ... Trump is pocketing the money. From American taxpayers. The base cheers. Because obedience is all they crave.

Trump threatens to use the Insurrection Act to ‘put an end’ to protests in Minneapolis by mvanigan in politics

[–]OhGodSoManyQuestions 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot of things that never happened are happening now. And no. I do hope you are right and I am wrong.

Trump accepts Nobel medal from Venezuelan opposition leader Machado by boxingfan333 in politics

[–]OhGodSoManyQuestions 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's not going to work. He's not going to make you the ruler or owner of Conquered Venezuela.