• @[email protected]
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    2710 days ago

    I don’t think Harris would intentionally harm this country and its alliances for a hostile Russian oligarch.

  • Ioughttamow
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    310 days ago

    Whether through the legislature or 2nd amendment, we keep going at this trajectory and I’d be shocked if he stayed in office for 4 years, let alone 2

      • @[email protected]
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        410 days ago

        The ironic one would be weakend food safety leading to a few bad hamburgers and he ends up dying from like salmonella or something else entirely preventable if someone cares to notice.

    • Vox
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      410 days ago

      I imagine even if he dies during the term republican leadership will Weekend at Bernies him for the remainder of the term to continue to use him as a scapegoat for all the evil shit they want to do.

      • @[email protected]
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        110 days ago

        I’ve thought of this too, and absolutely they’ll try that. I just don’t think they can pull it off, everyone else has anti-charisma.

        • greenfire
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          110 days ago

          it’s so hard to find anyone else in the GOP with the charisma of a rabid badger comedian these days

          • @[email protected]
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            210 days ago

            Dude uses hypnosis techniques and it works. He also somehow fakes sincerity. It obviously doesn’t work on you, but some people are more susceptible to hypnosis than others.

      • @[email protected]
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        29 days ago

        I feel like they’ll probably invent some plot by “Marxists” and start cracking down hard on anyone even slightly left of center in the name of combating terrorism. Like, even harder than they are already.

  • @[email protected]
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    5210 days ago

    At this point I think we should start looking into missing cats and dogs around Mar a lago. He’s probably eating them

      • Vox
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        710 days ago

        Which a stock market crash does in the long term. They are better positioned to weather a recession then anyone else and during a recession there is ample opportunities to buy property and ownership from those that couldn’t weather it, further centralized wealth among the billionaires. In another way, think of covid, did you see many huge corporations go out of business? No, but i know a ton of small businesses that couldn’t weather the storm and went out of business, guess who gets to replace them when consumers look for their wares.

        • @[email protected]
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          510 days ago

          The risk they don’t seem to imagine is that their ownership and precious property rights are still conditional.

          If you impoverish everyone so much that they no longer have a stake in preserving absolute property rights, it becomes a lot easier to sell “nationalise their assets” and “hang them from a petrol station canopy.”

          You might be able to find a few bodyguards you can bribe to protect a compound, but you’re not going to be able to guard everything once society no longer sees value in recognizing your claims to ownership.

          Even the “robber barons” of the past-- the Carnegies and Rockefellers-- at least knew that public gestures and restraint would help push that day back, but does Musk or Bezos have that level of understanfing?