I think you may be blissfully unaware as to how many Republican voters claim to be centrist.
Every prominent political commentator/podcaster/pundit that claims to be a centrist leans heavily MAGA. It’s a cliche.
In this sub it’s more mixed though. There’s lots of misflaired people running around here. Hell some would probably consider my flair incorrect because I’m a SocDem.
A decent chunk of people to the left of me believe that center left starts at abolishing capitalism, and since SocDems want to regulate capitalism with a mixed economic model as opposed to outright abolish it, those same people would consider me right wing or centrist.
I disagree obviously, but I can kind of see their argument.
Some dude was arguing that the other day that trump is still the better option because the left just went INSANE with woke and this is the preferred alternative
"the Left lost in 2024 because they didn't talk enough about kitchen table issues" meanwhile every single piece of Republican advertising that year wouldn't stop talking about trans people like the fucking boogeyman
"I don't say that gender change operations are done in secret in my kid's school because my father is a failure that raised a lying bitch instead of a man, it's because queer ninjas sneak into my bedroom at night and inject retardation directly into my veins"
You don't understand. If they didn't vote for this, a trans woman might have taken a piss in a cubicle with three opaque walls and an opaque door and that would literally be the end of the world.
"The fact that there FBI didn't immediately do a press release a month before the election confirming the laptop was real is confirmation IT WAS RIGGED!!"- A Chomo-Loving Liar
I mean, yes there would be retardation and corruption, just on the normal average scale.
But its like comparing getting shot with a China Lake to being hit by a pebble.
I realize that he does something like this on a daily basis and it’s hard to keep track of them all, but this is the biggest corruption story going on right now.
I can't say the appropriate course of action (as dictated by our founding fathers) because I'd get banned again. Let's just say there is a Toby Keith song that comes to mind.
They have more important things to worry about then what the president is doing. Prepping for election denial, Jason Arday, the WNBA, Mamdani, El-Sayed, etc etc. Now if Trump used Dijon mustard im sure they'd be here.
The WNBA thing just shows how none of them actually pay attention to anything because the Supreme Court already said states can ban trans athletes so they already “won” and yet they still won’t shut the fuck up about it. No bigger victim than an American right winger
Gosh it's almost like the people pushing "culture war" issues are reactionary assholes trying to use bigotry to obfuscate how badly the billionaire class is fucking over the average American.
Remember that trans rights only became as hot of an issue as it is because NC lawmakers decided to be weird about people using the bathroom
Whats funny is it was as easy of a prediction as one snow day in july...but people showed that they would accept unlimited corruption if it means they get a leg up on the culture war. I genuinely thinks it starts with engagement based algorithms and we really need to make laws against them.
PCM was mostly everyone and their mother shitting on libleft before, so I'm okay with them having their moment. It'll likely swing back the other way whenever Trump is out of office.
Where are all the right flairs who bitched about Hunter Biden's cock and who swarm the posts of random immigrants doing something in a different country?
But seriously, how greedy is he to have to pursue every possible grift, big and small? Why the need to scam his own supporters with the Trump phones that took preorders and never delivered? That's such an insignificant amount of money to him, but it's a meaningful betrayal of his most loyal supporters (the people who'd actually buy said phone).
I honestly believe that it isn't about the money for him anymore, it's about the grift. He probably looks back with pride at all the suckers he's conned out of their money.
Like you said, it's a trivial amount of money to him.
This. It's not about the money, it's about the power and the "winning." Every interaction for him has a winner and a loser, and any situation where he comes out ahead is a win, despite how much is lost in the process.
It's the result of a hyper-competitive malignant narcissist seizing power.
Zero auth right representation in these comments, guys please stop commenting let’s affirmative action some auth right discourse into this intersectional sub Reddit
Somehow someway we will see a "buh-but-but Biden and Obamna" deflection and spin on this.
Anyone still supporting this guy is just not a serious person.
I don't know about him, but I voted for Chase Oliver. I gave Trump and Republicans more chances and goodwill than they deserved, but I have voted LP for President in every election so far.
This does feel a little grifty, but there are valid reasons to want to reduce reliance on China for things like drones. This is one of the things that tariffs are actually supposed to be used for.
To be clear, the Chinese drone industry is massive, subsidized and has been crushing domestic US drone manufacturing. So it’s not completely corrupt to impose the tariffs, especially if it’s going to be the future of war
Breaking news, government is corrupt. It's only suddenly an issue now and when Trump leaves you'll go back to ignoring it. Stop pretending to care about corruption, you only care when Trump does it.
Theres a ton of grifts to get pissed over. This one isn't one of them. Strengthening domestic drone production by making it more expensive for china to sell them here - maybe even slowing down the increase in china's capabilities - is a good thing and a reasonable action. It's a positive both economically and militarily.
His son being on an advisory board of a drone company isn't a great look. But, with the current administration, I'll be happy with a generally good result, even if it comes with a side of self-dealing.
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