SE Hoya Containment Thread (aka Politics)
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72 you saw this right?
Genocide Joe is a pretty catchy nickname though.
Trump has this election in the bag. Almost no chance Genocide Joe gets 4 more years after alienating millions of his own voters from 2020. He has decided that supporting genocide is more important to him than winning in 2024.
Trump has this election in the bag. Almost no chance Genocide Joe gets 4 more years after alienating millions of his own voters from 2020. He has decided that supporting genocide is more important to him than winning in 2024.
After 8 years of back and forth. Who'd have thought it was Trump's anti-genocide policies that would give him the nod. Crazy time to be alive.
In other news, poor Elon. In his defense, running a business is pretty hard I'd imagine.
Man this Kari lake story is ****ing wild lol
DeWit, a former Trump campaign chief operating officer and NASA chief financial officer, said that the conversation had taken place in Lake’s home 10 months ago, while she was an employee of his private business.
In a statement posted Wednesday by the Arizona Republican Party on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, DeWit said he believes he “was set up” in a bid by Lake “to have control over the state party.”
I know he's MAGA, but how ****ing dumb do you have to be to go to someone's home, offer them a bribe, and NOT assume they're recording, especially when it's a loon like Lake.
teslahhhhhh
In a statement posted on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter
side note but i love that everyone always still has to clarify what x is because no one knows and it just sounds like some off-brand pr0n site
anyway what happened with melon usk now?
Teslahhhhhhhhh revenue tanked and Musky went on some ranting tangent on the call that can best be summed up as him telling everyone lolidk
Stock predictably gets shelled
I wouldn't trust a car made by Mollusk.
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen anything as predictably doomed to fail as Tesla having a trillion dollar market cap
Trump has this election in the bag. Almost no chance Genocide Joe gets 4 more years after alienating millions of his own voters from 2020. He has decided that supporting genocide is more important to him than winning in 2024.
wow so true! alienating your own would-be voters sounds like a recipe for disaster!!
shine on forever. shine on for Yemen. Sultanic son
you guys hear about the guy that cut his dad's head off because he was a federal employee, then broadcast the head in a plastic bag on youtube? just today apparently. right-wing garbage of course. I like to think id have seen that shiit coming and made provision for it.
Holy ****ing Christ you were serious
accidentally caught 30 seconds of cnn and it seems like the republicans are trying to impeach the homeland security guy for failing to solve "the border crisis", while the good guys dems seem be countering by seeking some mega-bill to fund their palestinian genocide + their wars in ukraine & iran + war with mexico (more border funding) + future war with china and whoever else
(did i forget any wars? feel like i am)
usa#1
save us donny da dove
DHS impeachment fails
This is all a ****ing joke
Haley lost the Republican primary in Nevada to 'none of the above'
Trump is "None of the above" FWIW...outside of the educated areas of the state (which are only Las Vegas & Reno), he is popular. Which is puzzling because he has nothing in common with those people and would s**t on them at any chance to benefit himself...but somehow they think "he is just like us".
Trump is "None of the above" FWIW...outside of the educated areas of the state (which are only Las Vegas & Reno), he is popular. Which is puzzling because he has nothing in common with those people and would s**t on them at any chance to benefit himself...but somehow they think "he is just like us".
I mean this can be said for any state in the middle of nowhere. Trump is outwardly bigoted, and uneducated people are far more likely to be bigoted because they are ignorant. It's actually really easy to see why these people like him. He is the loudest about one thing that resonates and are either too stupid or don't care about everything else. Most Republicans hate poor people.
Some people were shocked when he won the first time because they didn't realize how stupid (and poor) this country is.
It's just enemy of my enemy is my friend, always has been
Evergreen
“I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” Crystal Minton told The New York Times in an article published Monday. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”
