Fuck you WaPo. You helped him win so now you can gargle his balls until you choke on them. Bezos and the rest of the billionaires were fine with the fascism when they thought they could insulate themselves from the fallout. I don’t want to hear your complaints now that you’re having to deal with tariffs.

State kidnapping charges

Being allergic to peanuts isn’t dangerous when the whole country prefers almonds.

I see you’re one of those people who think all CEOs are intelligent people who rose to the top through hard work and determination.

You don’t need to be smart to be a grifter. It’s not doctors and scientists buying most of the snake oil.

While “the media” certainly has its issues, it’s more of a convenient scapegoat than the root of the problem. Enough of us have access to all the information we could ever need to know this man was bad news and we decided it wasn’t worth the effort. You can blame the media for not making it easier but ultimately we didn’t do our jobs and become educated voters. That is our collective fault and no one else’s.

That’s the only thing that ever has

It’s not bait to say that I think you’re distracting from an important conversation by trying to play morality police on behalf of a group of people who didn’t ask for help restricting the language used on the internet. You took that upon yourself and decided that this was the time to try to shame everyone else into thinking the same way you do. Quit virtue signaling about ancillary bullshit and get pissed at your government.

I understand why you think it’s not OK to say and I disagree. Call that what you like. It makes no difference to me.

Some people are mentally deficient. Trump shares some common traits with them. That’s the way the world is. You don’t need to police other people’s comparisons.

You’re far from the only kid to learn that lesson the hard way. Not that that makes it better but at least you have company

Don’t make excuses for idiocy. Many of us grew up in those same places with the same ideas you’re talking about constantly thrown at us and we could see this for what it was long before now. Those people don’t see it because they don’t want to and that’s not anyone’s fault but theirs.

Obviously it’s Fox

Ok, fine, but is making the president put up collateral going to achieve that outcome? It seems more likely to encourage bribing the president to give wealthy criminals a pardon while ignoring those who can’t pay the toll.

I don’t think money is the solution. The pardon exists to correct errors in the justice system. It is inadequate and insufficient to solve all those errors on its own but it can be useful in certain contexts. I think we should be pardoning more people in a thoughtful way, not less.

Clearly the issue here has more to do with Trump being a piece of shit than it does with the existence of a system for granting clemency. You could make the argument that a review board or some other form of independent review would be a good thing to add to the process but you could also make the argument that the best solution is simply to not make a self-serving piece of shit the President.

Never seen someone give up on the last sentence they were writing like that

Good for him. I’m staying here. Not because I have to. In fact, there are several relatively easy paths available to me if I wanted to leave. I’m staying because I refuse to let these fascist fucks have my country. Leaving is the easy personal solution but it doesn’t help anybody else.

The person you’re taking to online has a vested interest in defending the position they put forth. Someone reading your response who initially agrees with the person you’re talking to does not have a defensive attitude to the same degree. Your arguments will be much more successful with the observer than with the other participant. You will probably never know if you had an impact on the observer. That’s what you should be aiming for though.

Military service is already pretty unappealing to any empathetic human being imo

I hope you don’t genuinely expect that to happen