Joe Bauer
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One of these things is not like the other.
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That’s the appeal of Trumpism to a large segment of the population: you don’t have to pretend to aspire to better things, just revel in your assholery.
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They recycled their "both sides are the same" bullshit.
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South Park’s “Turd Sandwich vs. Giant Douche” 2016 plot line has a lot to answer for.
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They’re gonna dispense with hearing cases altogether and just issue fatwahs.
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Can everyone who didn’t vote for the tariff guy get a tariff relief check and others suck it up and get what they voted for?
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Canada and Australia were well on their way to an anti-incumbency backlash (toward far-right), and did a 180 after Trump put on the crown.

Not sure how this fits into the premise here, but people are not (yet?) being completely puppeted by right-wing internet saturation.
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We have governors and mayors coordinating to protect their constituents from the President of the United States. I read that three times and it still seems surreal.
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Was his attitude "when will Trump bail us out" or "why did Trump do this"?
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She’s good but I resent a system where billionaires pay no taxes and select good ones shower us with donations like mana from heaven.

Tax them, and then we as society decide how to spend the money.
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Trump literally saw a clip from 2020 on Fox News, thought it was current, and sent troops to Portland. Now the whole admin will triple down on it rather than admit the mistake.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/u...
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This didn’t come out of nowhere. In the last 40 years the GOP and conservative press referred to their voters as “real Americans”, with the obvious implication about the other half of the country.
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We voted for the same guy who did this last time he was President, and promised to do it again. Please save us from this unforeseen disaster!
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Almost all of his unfavorables are “strongly disapprove”. That’s set in cement. Less than half of his favorables are “strongly approve”. Room to fall.

The top line number isn’t everything.
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He’s teaching Dems how to win without consultant brain, so naturally it’s a five-alarm fire for consultants. They’re not in it to win races, they’re in it to get paid.
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You give him too much credit. He's aware he won't have to deal with it in his neighborhood, and he's happy to have it imposed on others.
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The GOP is going to create another Federalist Society to do to senior military ranks what they did to the judiciary.
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I’m sure DHS got charged like $5K for that Tippmann.
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Trump to military: worship me or get fired.
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Trump opens with a threat to the generals:

"I've never walked into a room so silent … Have a good time. And if you want to applaud, you applaud ... If you don't like what I'm saying, you can leave the room. Of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future. but you just feel nice and loose."
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The question could have been “Do you think Trunp should have shot that random person on 5th Avenue?” and those numbers would be the same.
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Not to mention that we’re being lectured on “having to wage war to defend freedom” by the same people who demand that Ukraine gives up a chunk of its homeland to Putin, and won’t lift a finger to defend it.
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"My friends across the aisle" Democrats need to purged from the party.
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A President above the law with unlimited pardon powers is uncomfortably close to a king.
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Half of the GDP is now just AI capex by 3 companies.
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Which is what happened. Twice.