HighFructoseLowStand

Have you ever considered that running on a platform of "America sucks" is unlikely to get you elected in America?

I'm not sure. Certainly, the weirdos who make the military their whole personality back him, but I haven't seen any evidence that he's outstandingly popular with the rank and file and his plans to completely gut the officer corps can't have made him popular there.

Is it wrong that I am less infuriated by this than I am by the fact people still worship this idiot?

At this point, I am exhausted with being outraged by him. I cannot hate him more than I already do. Doing more evil shit may actually make me hate him less, because I simply cannot keep up to date with all the new reasons to hate him. But I cannot comprehend how millions of people can function in the world while still behaving like everything he does is objectively right. Not even the truly repulsive, monstrous shit, but the petty, insufferable bullshit like this. How do you excuse it? It do not comprehend how anyone can look at this and say, "Yeah, this guy should have nigh-unlimited power over the country and the ability to throw the world into chaos with a Tweet."

God let history repeating itself be a good thing for once.

It's almost impressive how quickly the whole of the business world capitulated to Donald Trump.

Companies will raise prices to account for what they're losing on the tariffs.

I saw someone say it seems that the tariffs were calculated by dividing our trade deficit by their exports to us and cutting that number in half. Another person analyzed his charts and concluded they look a lot like they were generated by AI.

So, there is, literally no basis in logic. Either one of Trump's minions calculated what it would take to recoup the difference in the trade deficit and just wrote it down and he announced that as the new basis for international trade, which has never, ever been done, for the reason that it is fucking idiotic, or he asked Gemini how to execute his already objectively stupid policy and wrote an Executive Order making it the law.

And the fact that we are forced to accept people on the Internet's guesses about how he calculated these numbers may actually be worse than the fact that just about every product on the market more complex than a stapler just jumped about 30% in price.

It is not limited to California, I assure you.

First of all, if you consider Manchin and Sinema to be fascists, that's your issue.

Second of all, they didn't give them the boot because that would cost them control of the Senate, which, however, tenuous, still matters.

And yet they don't vote for politicians who support these things. Hypothetical polling does not gauge the realities of voter behavior.

I started this by asking what people's proposals for opposition were. You do have to provide one otherwise you're not answering the question.

Your definition of sitting at the table is "being in the same building."