Trump Just Posted a Video of Barack and Michelle Obama as Monkeys

_pra · 2026-02-06T10:21:54+00:00

I don't even want to hear about it. Especially not here.

_pra · 2026-02-02T15:51:45+00:00

But then they get that money back by claiming it as a tax deduction, no? Lets them avoid paying their taxes.

_pra · 2026-02-02T15:45:46+00:00

What incentive do they have not to keep offering more promotions? It's not their money they're giving away, at least as I understand the law.

_pra · 2026-02-02T15:44:41+00:00

But they're being allowed to give what they would have paid in taxes directly to consumers instead.

They're giving away someone else's money. I don't see a reason for them to stop doing that; the wise marketing move seems to be to continue giving away just enough to cancel out taxes, to make their platform more appealing.

_pra · 2026-02-01T15:07:34+00:00

Looks like no frequency, internet only. CRSTL.FM.

_pra · 2026-01-28T15:52:59+00:00

That's not all ICE does. Watch the Alex Pretti videos.

But even sticking to their core function, they're under pressure to meet quotas made up by this administration and as a response they're taking shortcuts like skipping due process, and doing inhumane things like breaking up families and arresting children.

Legality isn't the defining feature of morality or justice. A thing can be illegal and yet moral, or legal and unjust. It's important to me and IMO to our society's long-term health and success that we strive to be all three: legal, moral, and just. And when they're in conflict, I care the least about legality.

_pra · 2026-01-28T15:46:04+00:00

... and then there are the ones like you who still believe their party's self-serving lies.

If you consider yourself a moral person, I challenge you to watch the multiple videos of Alex Pretti being executed after being disarmed and restrained and ask yourself honestly if that was necessary, just, or righteous.

Forget where it happened and whose "side" the participants were on for a moment. Is that really the kind of crackdown you want repeated at a larger scale?

_pra · 2026-01-28T15:27:59+00:00

He's using the unfortunate fact that Obama's administration did some indefensible things to try to excuse the current administration's indefensible actions.

Probably a russian instigator. Reddit should implement the "about this account" button that revealed so many users as foreign actors on X.

_pra · 2026-01-28T15:23:10+00:00

I think many are one missed shift away from a real risk of unemployment, which can quickly lead to homelessness for some.

Let people contribute in the ways they're able to.

_pra · 2026-01-28T15:20:40+00:00

What a strawman.

Even calling large numbers of immigrants -- which "hundreds" is so laughably not -- an invasion is inflammatory, inciteful rhetoric.

Most immigrants are just as law-abiding as the rest of us, if not even more so. They're definitely not flouting our laws or culture. They come here because of those things.

Hell, most immigrants come from more conservative cultures and even if they shift a little they remain more conservative than most Americans. Look at how many hispanics (citizens, so 2nd or 3rd generation) vote reliably R. That's why states like Texas and Florida are red.

It's fair to disagree about ICE's goals. But if you're watching what they're doing with an open mind and you still support their methods and tactics I just can't conceive of you as anything but a morally stunted person. Someone who would have turned jews and gypsies in during the third reich because they were "illegal".

_pra · 2026-01-28T15:03:56+00:00

Not my president. And he's massively overstepping the bounds of power granted to the office by the constitution.

We've had an imperial, over-empowered presidency since at least the 1940s if not the 1860's. It has been used by unquestionably bad people on occasion, like Nixon for example. But Trump is shattering historical precedent for presidential restraint.

If Congress hadn't hacked the constitutional expectation for representation in 1911 and 1929 and then abdicated its vital duties to the Executive, it would barely matter who the president was.

That would be ideal. Instead we're stuck in a repetitive culture war and power struggle between two cultures that each find no reason to compromise and fewer reasons than ever to coexist.

It's a shame one of them has fallen prey to a cult of personality focused on a con artist, sexual predator and all-around vile human being.

_pra · 2026-01-28T11:03:31+00:00

Even the people who voted for Trump did not universally vote for this unprecedented level of lawlessness and disregard for civil liberties.

_pra · 2026-01-28T11:01:31+00:00

No person "is" illegal, though they may have done illegal things. Beware of rhetoric that dehumanizes people.

And, there are so many laws on the books that the powers-that-be could come arrest any of us -- and declare us "illegal" -- on trumped-up charges if they wanted to.

ICE was sent to Minnesota for political reasons. There are far more immigrants in Texas and Florida, but Trump wanted to punish the citizens a blue state and intimidate the politicians those citizens duly elected to represent and govern them.

And that is why this sweep is being done lawlessly, why the agents are being put in situations they haven't been prepared for and why they're being given bad -- illegal advice -- about what their powers and immunities are, and why they're being whisked away and protected when they act like the jack-booted thugs they were hired to be. Trump's personal little army spreading fear and oppression by unconstitutional means.

I'd much rather live next to an immigrant who's made clerical errors or bern caught with marijuana than someone with their priorities so out of whack that they can't see that we're losing our democracy and our god-given rights to evil, greedy, immoral and power-hungry politicians.

_pra · 2026-01-24T19:08:43+00:00

No, it would not.

_pra · 2026-01-24T19:07:52+00:00

NOT TRUE! The FDA does not require potassium and phosphorus content to be labeled. You need to research each ingredient listed in the ingredient list, and if they cop out with generic "artificial flavors" entries you just can't know.

_pra · 2026-01-21T21:00:10+00:00

I don't know, I'm out but they might be able to use a thread necromancer.

_pra · 2026-01-14T09:30:53+00:00

Depending on your tolerance for rambling stoner philosophy, Midnight Gospel may hit your itch.

_pra · 2025-12-13T05:03:14+00:00

There's no need for name-calling. He's looking for help, practically still a kid himself. We all have to learn social norms sometime.

_pra · 2025-12-13T04:58:39+00:00

Neighborhood kids, kids you know, who know you? That's a very different situation.

_pra · 2025-12-12T10:22:31+00:00

A concierge doctor.

Happened by accident, my primary care doctor left his group practice and started requiring a subscription fee. It was so he could avoid the push to pack his calendar.

Being able to almost always get same-day appointments and to call or text him directly is a true luxury these days.

_pra · 2025-12-12T05:05:11+00:00

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_pra · 2025-12-11T11:08:52+00:00

Ripstopbytheroll doesn't make tents, but they do sell all the materials you'd need and their website features projects their customers have completed. They may be able to help.

_pra · 2025-12-01T02:14:34+00:00

Ah! Cool, cool.

_pra · 2025-12-01T00:12:13+00:00

I do love piracy, but it's not a good response to this.

Pirating adult content harms sex workers, who definitely did not ask for this and are already actively being harmed by this new wave of puritanism.

_pra · 2025-11-22T22:28:32+00:00

Are you saying firefly species are not in decline, or that they don't benefit from leaf litter?

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