ChiGoose

This will be the first Christmas morning our son has had at home and I am so looking forward to it. His first Christmas was in the NICU and last year we were in Rochester with my family. This feels like a new chapter and I am excited for new traditions.

Bad people use civilians as shields. But do you believe it is good to just kill the civilians being used as shields? Do you believe all Muslims are bad?

“Yeah! Kill those kids! #ProLife” -Doc Pretty telling that your criticism of “hey maybe don’t kill civilians” is “LOL, those civilians don’t like you!” Do you think people only have dignity or a right to life if they agree with you?

Are we all still cheering on a government contractor being put in charge of where government money goes and pretending to be populists? Funny how one of the provisions that Musk got kicked was tighter controls about US investment in China. But we’re all still anti-China, right?

Looks like the terrorist was against Islam and a fan of Elon’s favorite German political party. What we know about the suspect behind the German Christmas market attack “Taleb’s X account is filled with tweets and retweets focusing on anti-Islam themes and criticism of the religion while sharing congratulatory notes to Muslims who left the faith. He also described himself as a former Muslim. He was critical of German authorities, saying they had failed to do enough to combat the “Islamism of Europe.” He has also voiced support for the far-right and anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. Some described Taleb as an activist who helped Saudi women flee their homeland. Recently, he seemed focused on his theory that German authorities have been targeting Saudi asylum seekers.“

100% agree. The best thing they could have done was treat him as a nobody. This is just going to feed into the stupid hero narrative.

I feel like the Venn diagram of people who want to keep the debt ceiling and the people who understand how it works are two separate circles that do not touch.

Telling that instead of answering the question, you make up a straw man argument to deflect.

Do you honestly believe that a non-governmental committee with no power, being run by two different people, one of whom is a government contractor, is actually going to do anything meaningful to increase efficiency? Do you believe that creating such an entity instead of better leveraging the existing GAO and making support for members of Congress contingent on passing laws that implement GAO recommendations is something that people who care about efficiency would do?

You’ve got nothing. You know you’re being grifted so you’re lashing out. The TDS is calling from inside the house, buddy.

One of the things you have to love about MAGA is how quickly and easily they reveal their own hypocrisy and ignorance. Anyway, back to the thread topic: people who pretend to want fiscal responsibility are licking the boots of the richest man in the world who is clearly grifting them. Ignorance, thy name is MAGA.

So Bernanke told you that 20-100% tariffs on all imports is a good thing?

Only if you understand basic economics. If you don’t, maybe tariffs magically reduce prices. You guys really aren’t sending your brightest.

Totally agree. MAGA is 100% about feelings over facts. Lots of people got mad at high prices so they voted for the guy who promised to raise prices. Now, a lot of people think that the richest man on Earth, who is a substantial government contractor, actually cares about government efficiency. Feelings all the way down.

Oh, buddy. If you think this whole Doge thing is actually about efficiency, I feel bad for you.

Unelected plutocrat singlehandedly overrides elected officials and the ostensibly pro-populism crowd cheers. We really do live in the dumbest timeline. Gonna have to buy stock in Brawndo soon...

Apparently Grandpa Ranty was going off in the middle of the night: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/113672861551554010 It’s becoming abundantly clear that this guy doesn’t understand basic economics.

I don’t agree with everything the Dems do. I never supported the Dems before Trump and I don’t support everything they do. But Trump represents the worst of us and that is worth fighting against.

I would step back from the “your side does X” thing if you’re supporting Trump or the GOP, lest you be painted with the worst of your side even if you don’t personally agree with it. You talk like a kid who spends too much time online and just sorts everything as black and white, painting with the widest brush you can find. You’re not stating “facts” so much as things that feel good to you.

As embarrassing as thinking that a promise to place tariffs on imported goods and reduce the labor force is not a promise to raise prices? You seem to have a need to brag about your ignorance.

Trump: I’m going to enact policies that will raise prices Economists: This is going to raise prices MAGA: BuT wAs He ExPlIcIt? Jesus, you people are jokes.

Wow, you really are bad at this, kid.

Man, you really are bad at this, aren’t you?

I appreciate you proving my point that many MAGA voters are ignorant of basic economics.