As someone in that group, there’s a huge difference between doing well on paper and actually doing well. My peers and I are worried about losing our jobs, and there’s a likelihood we won’t be seeing a significant portion of our paychecks due to the economic hits from the tariffs. Sure, my net worth is technically higher since last year, but that doesn’t mean much when you’re 30 years from retirement. I can’t just infinite money glitch my 401k by taking out loans like billionaires can with their net worth.

I realize that I’m a lot better off than most, but I only bring this up to point out that even people who aren’t poor are also feeling plenty of negative economic pressure as well.

Living in the US, it certainly feels like the GOP is a hostile foreign invader holding us all hostage.

I like the theory that they are literally possessed by demons and it actively rots them at an accelerated rate.

Just don’t acknowledge Alberta and it’s all good

Have y’all ever listened to or seen anything about Hegseth? He’s prattled on about this “warrior ethos” shit endlessly and was literally too stupid and incompetent for Fox fucking News. This is exactly the kind of stupid shit he’d pull.

I’m going to guess that you probably aren’t part of one of the many groups he actively advocated for violence and hatred against.

I don’t celebrate his death, but that a man actively advocating for violence and hate against so many has been silenced.

I wonder if they just hired too many and the effects stacked

My contribution

It’s pretty at this point he does. At one point I was very confused by the “emptying out mental asylums” talk, but after hearing him say something along the lines of “And you have the immigrants coming here from asylums, they’re literally sending us insane people”, it’s pretty clear at this point he absolutely thinks “asylum” means “mental institution”.

That’s kind of an insane gift for a first date given how expensive cheese is.

The issue is legitimately that they’re all a bunch of massively racist fucks and were told for over a decade how the world saw us as a laughing stock (because we had a black man as president), despite being ridiculously popular on the world stage, and so they think just by having a rich white asshole suddenly we’re respected again, even though he’s truly the biggest laughing stock ever.

I’m certainly not holding my breath, but it wouldn’t be a bad hail-Mary play for them

I thought that’s what his eyes were, and the lens just reflected the energy back into the “energy dimension”?

Honestly, knowing the dire straights the NRA has been in the past 10 years or so, it wouldn’t be a bad time to try and rebrand. Right wingers aren’t nearly as big fans of them anymore after they’ve rolled over on basically every gun rights case that’s come up, so I’m kinda hoping this is an actual attempt at doing something.

Perchance?

Honestly, I have hope that things won’t get that bad. Realistically, Trump could have easily already had his own Sturmabteilung outright murdering opposition members and doing far worse. Things are bad, but given the effectively unlimited power he’s got right now, they’ve been weirdly reserved with how they’ve used it. They certainly posture and bluster like they’re ready to do so, but have generally only done so in a largely performative way.

The difference is the Wehrmacht didn’t have hundreds of ICBMs, nuclear subs, aircraft carriers, and the ability to land an entire military base anywhere in the world in a week’s time.

New Years? I’m taking a week off work and my family is gonna have to call a search party to find me I’m gonna party so hard.

Of course not, because no one AFAB could ever compete with a real man in anything ever, so there’s no point because the silly little transmen will never be able to measure up. /s