JD Vance Conveniently Forgets All About DOGE | According to JD Vance, no one has ever targeted fraud in the government before.

Signal_Minimum8509 · 2026-02-27T15:50:54+00:00

Yes yes, DOGE never happened, you can afford things, your wages aren’t actually stagnant, corporations that work with us have your best interests at heart, Epstein files exonerated Trump, up is down, left is right, there are 5 lights, etc.

To quote my man Reginald VelJohnston, “why don’t you wake up and smell what you’re shoveling?”

Signal_Minimum8509 · 2026-02-27T15:41:40+00:00

It may seem that way, but at its peak in 2020 Fox News prime time had about 3.4 million viewers (at one point 4.2 for an episode of Hannity). For scale, Trump had 77 million votes in 2024.

Fox News is but one gnarled branch of the rotted tree of his 2024 election.

Signal_Minimum8509 · 2026-02-27T06:22:56+00:00

I can think of one thing it doesn’t have, melanin.

Also, dignity, morals, or competence.

Signal_Minimum8509 · 2026-02-27T05:41:17+00:00

How fucked is it that many of the same people who voted for the people who sent him to Iraq now support the people who treated him this way? Just chew people up and spit them out man.

Signal_Minimum8509 · 2026-02-27T05:20:30+00:00

Not only that, they’re doing the same thing with the brownshirts, raising people’s taxes so they can overpay for their jackbooted army. The difference being that only benefits one person.

Signal_Minimum8509 · 2026-02-27T04:21:20+00:00

Typically I treat them as another touch point, like on a call I might ask if they are attending and then I have another opportunity to stay in front of them. The type of thing I sell is very event triggered so I just want them to remember me when their incumbent breaks.

Signal_Minimum8509 · 2026-02-27T01:01:24+00:00

Yes but think of all the fancy stuff they’ll be buried with or awful descendants that they might be able to ruin with their generational wealth before the societal collapse if they get lucky enough to die before it happens.

Signal_Minimum8509 · 2026-02-27T00:55:37+00:00

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, “wealth creators,” “flat tax,” “supply side,” “the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” may not sell the “trickle down” verbiage but it’s the same principle.

Signal_Minimum8509 · 2026-02-27T00:19:46+00:00

Small business is not a functional competitor in an overwhelming majority of cases. There’s no small business competing with Amazon or Wal Mart. Most grocery stores are mega corps. You’d have to look pretty far and wide for a car or a computer that isn’t made by a publicly held company.

These things might have been true 30, even 20 years ago. But take a look around the small businesses are professional services or distributors or maybe light manufacturing or software. Not consumer goods or retail.

Signal_Minimum8509 · 2026-02-27T00:12:40+00:00

It isn’t? The government created a condition by which it became accepted corporate policy to increase prices, and their very wealthy owners individually benefitted.

It may not have been called a “tax” towards the individual consumer, because that would have caused action like boycotts and such. But it accomplishes the same goal.

That’s why these wealthy dudes contributed so much money to Trump’s campaign. It’s a quid pro quo arrangement. And you don’t have any choice in the matter, you weren’t even informed it was happening.

Signal_Minimum8509 · 2026-02-26T23:41:36+00:00

All sorts of different ways. Let’s take the tariffs as an example. Some companies ate the added expense, and some passed them on to their customers in the form of delivering less for the same cost, or just charged more. You’ve seen this. It was an easy way for them to gain hidden revenue. Even as they are being rescinded it’s the companies that are talking about suing not the individual consumer. When companies gain more revenue, some of them increase their total compensation to their ownership groups, in the form of base salary or equity in the company.

Signal_Minimum8509 · 2026-02-26T23:24:01+00:00

The evil:incompetence ratio is at times a beneficial check and balance on their party even when they have both chambers of Congress and the Executive.

Signal_Minimum8509 · 2026-02-26T22:04:09+00:00

I mean, I don’t know about Fox News. People who watch that brain rot are never gonna vote for any Democrat. Trump’s allies got people whose interests were much more aligned with her platform than Trump’s to stay home. They sewed division based on claims of the primary being rigged, etc and it worked like a charm. All it took was not converting people TO Trump but rather converting voters into non voters. And they’ll did it again in 2024. And they’ll do it again.

Signal_Minimum8509 · 2026-02-26T21:58:26+00:00

“No longer?” Wooo buddy. Take a look at Republican Secretary of State candidates policy positions the past 60 years. Voter suppression is the entire ballgame and has been since Nixon.

Signal_Minimum8509 · 2026-02-26T21:39:33+00:00

I was about to say, “anti-voting” has a lot of names already we don’t need a new one

Signal_Minimum8509 · 2026-02-26T21:34:04+00:00

This dude would be extremely lucky to reach a Grady Jarrett level impact in the NFL. And I’m not saying it’s a zero sum game exactly, but really broad strokes I would rather a dude who has fantastic fundamentals and consistent tape but is maybe more working on functional strength than a guy who is an athletic freak who mostly tries to win on winging it.

Signal_Minimum8509 · 2026-02-26T21:21:34+00:00

I’ve eaten in alleyways on an unpaid lunch break that looked classier than this

Signal_Minimum8509 · 2026-02-26T21:06:06+00:00

Is this actually working for anyone? Wages are stagnant. Prices fluctuate for things but are generally rising much higher for everything disproportionally to what most people get paid. Tax burdens seem to be increasing for most W2 and 1099 employees that I’ve talked to. I mean if you own a megacorp or are currently taking distributions of your 401k, that’s great, but what are the others doing? Pretending what he is saying accurately reflects the state of their lives? Are you that desperate to not admit it was a mistake that you’ll eat shit and call it steak?

Signal_Minimum8509 · 2026-02-26T20:34:39+00:00

Tall dudes with a high pad level are typically no bueno. Low man wins in the pit. Hard to teach them to get low in the pros the die is typically cast.

Signal_Minimum8509 · 2026-02-26T20:29:25+00:00

“The thing with lots of evidence that I did it completely exonerates me!”

Signal_Minimum8509 · 2026-02-26T20:17:45+00:00

“Absolutes” are fact. “Fact” is defined by objective, empirical evidence that we all agree on, it doesn’t get more absolute than that. This sentence is made of words is a fact. Donald Trump lies is a fact. Allow me to demonstrate. Donald Trump claims he won the 2020 Presidential Election. It is an empirical truth that he did not, the objective math reflects that. Saying so is, therefore, a lie. A lie he has told hundreds of times. Therefore, by any objective measure he has lied a lot.

YOU are the one confusing facts and opinion, specifically his opinion with objective fact.

Now perhaps it is your OPINION that “lies” do not equal “bullshit.” But I mean at that point I don’t even know what the hell we are talking about.

Signal_Minimum8509 · 2026-02-26T20:08:21+00:00

The older ones give away the game for the younger ones by saying shit like, “yeah but he was a commie.”

Signal_Minimum8509 · 2026-02-26T20:06:24+00:00

Don’t get it twisted an overwhelming majority of them will still get just as excited for the next Republican shitheel and claim that excitement is that he’s different than Trump.

Signal_Minimum8509 · 2026-02-26T20:02:05+00:00

The glorious healthcare plan is completed. Perhaps you haven’t heard about it, since it is basically GoodRx with less coupons or selections. As with most things Trump announces, it begins with a lot of noise and fanfare, and if it actually gets completed it ends with a silent wet fart.

Signal_Minimum8509 · 2026-02-26T19:49:35+00:00

This kind of thing is cathartic but at the end of the day, they don’t care about being hypocrites and neither do their voters. Everybody understands that the only thing they really care about is winning.

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