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I meant his dad, the emerald mine owner whose fortune Elon inherited. Or whatever the verb is for when your dad is rich enough that you can live off and invest his money while he's still alive. Fred Trump also belongs on the list.

He never had a lane. He's garbage at everything and always has been. He's proof that rich people shouldn't be allowed to reproduce, and should instead be subject to a 100% inheritance tax.

Remind me again why democracy wasn't a mistake.

It'll almost certainly come down to whether Trump actually makes good on his threat to become a dictator (and if that happens, we'll have bigger things to worry about). 47 Republicans in the House and 12 in the Senate voted for the Respect for Marriage Act, and I'm pretty sure most of them were...

Because saying things that are demonstrably false is all he's capable of when confronted with a topic.

No, at this point it's a ploy to get a cabinet position. Probably as the head of NASA or something, wherever she can do the most damage.

Somebody please just nuke this whole country into a crater and put us out of our misery. We're all going to die either way; might as well make it quick.

Because they're the ones who started the fire and will do anything to try to distract people from it.

Immigration, sure, and let's just go ahead and say that Europeans are on the whole pretty lousy when it comes to race relations in general. But surely not abortion. Even accounting for the large Catholic populations in most of the Western world, there are plenty of countries that are too...

I'm still not sure what the distinction between "being part of QAnon" and "being part of Trump's fan club" even is, exactly. Nor whether the distinction, whatever it is, is of any real import.

That might have been useful advice before, but Trump is now going to have the power to pardon them both. And while I know he doesn't reward people for their loyalty, he is in the habit of using pardons to send a message and to put people he likes back into power; see Joe Arpaio.

Well, assuming he didn't declare himself dictator and cancel the 2024 election.

The first time around, there were still intelligent people willing to work for him. Especially at the very beginning when all the major appointments were getting made. He's going to be scraping the bottom of the barrel now. Hell, in that respect alone, we're a lot worse off than if he had just...

OK, next time someone says the US is the most economically backward country in the developed world, I'm pointing to South Korea and saying "second most, at least." Yeesh.

There was a poll last year showing somewhere between 60 and 70% of Americans wanting universal healthcare. Meanwhile only a minority of Democrats in Congress (and obviously 0% of Republicans) said they would vote for it. If that's not a clear sign of what's wrong with the Democratic Party and...

Including him. If he was actually interested in having a discussion, he would have attempted to contribute more than that. But like most of Trump's base, he's so convinced that he's right and that it's so self-evident that he's right that it would be a waste of time to go any more in detail than...

This is ridiculous by the way. All the way through the first Trump administration, there were self-identified conservatives regularly posting here. Just not conservatives who supported Trump. It's down to just Teufel these days, although I think the others disappeared when the forum reset (along...

Even Roddenberry knew the path to utopia isn't through peace.

Honestly, I've been avoiding even bringing up what Trump allegedly intends to do to "undesirables" because I still think whatever opinion he might have of minorities, immigrants, etc. takes a distant second to his own ego, the singular reason he wants to be President. If anyone's going to get...

No, you didn't. A Trump presidency will be good for Trump, and maybe those at the top who kiss his ass the most, and everyone else will be left to fend for themselves, at best. The man has no idea how to govern, nor does he care, because everything he has ever done in his life has been solely...