Remember that one time a presidential candidate used the word 'deplorables' in a paragraph adjacent to references about the shittiest part of the electorate and everyone lost their gorram minds?
The two GoFundMe's for the construction worker -- who was suspended by his employer, but his union is going to fight for nim -- are now worth $650,000 already.
We just spent a week listening to the media grilling Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey about using an F-bomb in response to a citizen being murdered by a federal agent and his need to tone down the rhetoric.
How long will the media grill the President of the US about his need to tone down the rhetoric?
That is the big advantage of getting elected by the basket of deplorables: Trump voters are so shitty people that they will excuse everything. I bet it makes them even horny when he talks dismissively about them.
I've started to unconsciously alter the definition of 'presidential behaviour'. Like if I'm out and I see a toddler throwing a tantrum, or some teenagers causing trouble, I'll think "they're behaving very presidential".
The sad and extremely aggravating part? Most of them are too ignorant to even know what both Obama and Biden did for them. Maybe they know about the ACA, but do they understand that the CFPB protected them from predatory overdraft fees? How about the Chips Act? Infrastructure? Crop trade?
I once had a bank fleecing me for hundreds of dollars a month, thanks to an ex who was bad at math.
I live in an extremely rural area - never thought I'd see fiber optic internet, but here we are.
Ohio's new chip fab is looking a bit uncertain, now that Trump has killed the Chips Act.
I'm old enough to remember when corporate media was still ashamed enough of putting its thumb on the scales to try to hide it.
Its thumb *was* on the scales and it sucked at hiding it, but at least it was ashamed enough to try.
Now it's all owned by fascist-aligned oligarchs, and, well...