It’s really very simple.
If Haley sucks up to Trump and he wins, she’ll likely be appointed to a sinecure.
Harris isnt going to appoint her to anything, no matter how hard she sucks up.
And that’s it right there. To Haley, that’s the entire difference.
No - I mean Trump personally. Not the Trump campaign, which is a separate thing.
Yeah - the campaign, between the cultish rank and file and the cynically power-hungry donors and operatives - still has a lot of energy.
But Trump the person is visibly coming apart at the seams.
At this point, we’re watching Trump disintegrate day by day and virtually minute by minute.
I’m not sure if he’s even going to make it to the election. It’s really starting to look like he’s going to come apart at the seams before that.
Hexbear is sort of like a village of eldritch abomination worshippers in a Lovecraftian horror story - isolated, insular, entirely wrapped up in their own esoteric rituals and ideas and language, and immediately and collectively hostile to outsiders.
Trump is rather obviously profoundly mentally ill, and it’s long past time for that to be noted every single time he goes off on another of his delusional rants.
Exactly as noted in the article, it’s not even enough to fact check him (though that should be done as a matter of course) because it’s not just that so much of what he says is false. The much more significant fact is that so much of what he says is insane. It’s not ideas and beliefs shaped and presented by a rational mind, but the disjointed ravings of a lunatic, and that’s exactly how it should be treated.
Just be patient.
With all due respect, fuck the normies. The fediverse is better off without them.
It’s astonishing how completely and thoroughly fucked things are right now.
Think about it - the measure of how damaging a story might be to a deranged convicted felon presidential candidate is the eagerness with which a social media site owned by a billionaire troll and self-professed “free speech absolutist” tries to censor it.
How is that even possible? Does no one else recognize how jaw-droppingly insane these people are?
Because the DNC has no principles. It’s nothing more than a money-making machine, and the Clintons are enormously successful money-makers, and nothing else really matters.
Probably an odd take, but this is actually something I sort of like about this timeline.
I keep getting this amusing visual image of actual people tiptoing away and giggling and shushing each other, as somewhere in the background, the site they used to be on is nothing but corporations showing ads to bots posting to bots.
Most similar to Advance Wars:
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
Tactics Ogre: Knight of Lodis
Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation
Shining Force:Resurrection of the Dark Dragon
Just in general:
Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
Summon Night: Swordcraft Story 1 and 2
Drill Dozer
Golden Sun 1 and 2
Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap
Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town
Guru Logic Champ
Metroid Fusion
Metroid Zero Mission
Medabots RPG
Klonoa: Empire of Dreams
“Election deniers” is an inaccurate description.
They’re fraudsters and seditionists, pure and simple. All of their efforts in 2020 were to effectively overthrow the US government by fraudulently handing the election to Trump, and since they failed, all of their efforts since then have been to try to make it so that they can succeed in 2024.
I don’t envy him that responsibilty.
On the one hand, there will be legitimate protesters there exercising their constitutional rights. They need to be free to do so
And on the other hand, there will also be Republican-, Russian- and/or Israeli-backed agents provocateur there trying to incite violence in order to discredit the protests and the Democrats more broadly, and they need to be dealt with appropriately.
That’s going to be a tough balancing act.
It’s really amazing sometimes that so much legal and political policy is driven by men who are ashamed of their boners.
One of the greatest songs ever IMO, though I much prefer the original.
All songs start with silence, then build a series of sounds until a song is achieved, then return to silence, but few illustrate the magic and wonder of that process quite as well as A Forest.
All indications are that Trump doesn’t understand how anything works. That’s just not the way his mind is organized. He skates on the surface, focused exclusively on finding things that appear to serve his immediate interests, which are limited to greed, lust and the incessant demands of his insatiable ego.
Nowhere near as unfavorably as it deserves - that was my point.
It’s so perfectly on brand for crybaby Trump to file a suit claiming that he’s being persecuted because the Justice Department got a search warrant based on evidence that Trump was illegally holding classified documents, carried out the search warrant, and found the exact classified documents he was suspected of illegally holding.
“Waah! I’m being persecuted because I deliberately committed a crime and got caught!”
“Slammed by former president” as a reference to what Trump himself said is one of the most egregiously misleading bits of headlining I’ve seen in a long time.
And of course the entirely useless MBFC bot is fine with it.
Luckily enough, the actual story is Trump throwing a hissy fit over Harris “copying” “his” promise in Vegas to eliminate taxes on tips, as if he was the first and only politician to ever trot that one out, and no amount of diversionary headlining can fully distract from the fact that all this really is is a grown-ass man acting, yet again, like a spoiled child.
The donor class doesn’t really care about Trump’s mental (and psychological) issues, and really don’t even care much about Trump at all. They’re not actually supporting him - they’re supporting the handlers and advisers with which they intend to surround him, and the policies (and primarily Project 2025) that they intend to enact through him.
If anything, his incoherence is, to them, a benefit, since he’s just that much easier to manipulate. Since he can’t form a coherent thought on his own, he can be readily filled up with someone else’s ideas, just so long as they’re framed correctly.
He’s like a wind-up toy - all they have to do is feed him carefully crafted stories and get him wound up and pointed in the right direction, then just let him go.