Two million mail-in ballots were trashed because of irregularities. If you’re black, your mail-in ballot was nine times more likely to be trashed than a white person’s. There’s other proof. Search bullet ballot discrepancy. A bullet ballot is when only the presidency is voted on and nothing else. They aren’t unheard of, but they’re relatively rare. There were twenty times more bullet ballots in swing states than in the last election or in non-swing states.

https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/

The author’s credentials are at the bottom of the page.

Two million mail-in ballots were trashed because of irregularities. If you’re black, your mail-in ballot was nine times more likely to be trashed than a white person’s. There’s other proof. Search bullet ballot discrepancy. A bullet ballot is when only the presidency is voted on and nothing else. They aren’t unheard of, but they’re relatively rare. There were twenty times more bullet ballots in swing states than in the last election or in non-swing states.

https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/

The author’s credentials are at the bottom of the page.

Gouging will happen in every industry, by every corporation. The only ones that might not are locally owned, which has been dwindling since at least the 90s.

It happened with covid, it happened with bird flu, and it’s about to happen the biggest ever with tariffs as the excuse.

You are in agreement with the person you responded to.

I learned from this very thread that the administration has already bribed Amazon with $40 million for a documentary on Melania. Planet Earth cost around half that.

When confronted with this nonsense, I had started telling people that Biden had levers on his desk labeled inflation and gas prices. And nobody could get him to stop pulling them. Taking it to the absurd was surprisingly effective.

They’ve already had a phone call about it and Trump is back to calling him the most amazing leader of a beautiful American company or whatever. He stepped down in 2021.

They’ll push back the date like they always do.

Testosterone and steroids, at a minimum. Probably body dysmorphia brought on by destruction of his brain from decades of hard drug abuse plus a fucking brain worm

That’s the minimum. He probably got in with Elon’s hookup.

You think we’re past the peak? Honest question. As our lives get collectively, on average, worse over the next forever, you don’t think more people will turn to hard drugs to cope?

He is very much mentally unwell. Hanging at the dump eating animals his birds killed on acid. He gave his 14 year old cousin acid.

He killed people in Samoa, including 40 children, with his vaccine denial. He thinks he knows more than all the doctors in the world who disagree with him. He is mentally ill. Narcissist at a minimum.

I don’t know about his uncle, but his father was a horrible, disgusting man. Likely the reason Trump, self admittedly, has not emotionally matured beyond a first grade level.

More opioid users will die. How is that not doing it?

Sometimes the problem solving men jump to is annoying as shit. Like, I’m a man, and I want to complain about my cluster headaches. No I don’t need you to be the 20th person to tell me I just need to stay hydrated. No I would not like to hear your methods for dealing with migraines that are probably not real migraines. What I get are not migraines. They’re called suicide headaches for a reason.

Oh man. Few things piss my wife off more than suggesting her irrational behavior could be due to PMS. She gets it really bad, and she’s allowed to say that, but I’m not.

They donate money to gay conversion camps. They claimed to have stopped, but they were still donating to christian organizations that support gay conversion.

They threw a ton of money at Trump’s campaign as well.

Yeah I live too far from farmland to take advantage. Our farmers market is expensive but the stuff they sell is fantastic. I get ferns there every year. Cheaper than Lowe’s and higher quality. I boycott Home Depot so it’s nice to have options.

Just keep in mind the maxim- The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. It’s more of a vibes casino than it ever was before the GME stuff.

Even though I think you could be right, please don’t bet the barn. I don’t want to see you get hurt.

I hope you’re correct for your benefit and the benefit of people who have retirement funds in the market.

I disagree however. Even if that fucking toddler-brained jackass backs completely off the tariffs (which I don’t think his ego will let him) he will do more heinous shit that will ruin the world economy in other ways. He’s also got several accelerationists in his ear that would love to see another great depression.

In less than 90 days the tariffs are back on, and the insane China ones are currently rolling I believe. Adidas put out a statement today saying the shoes are going to get a lot more expensive. Also, as of today, the oligarch Jeff Bezos is under federal investigation over a rumor that Amazon was going to tell customers what portion of the price of an item was due to tariffs. Just over a rumor. A rumor about a legal action that would be a smart business decision.

I’m keeping my money in the bank, and some in cash hidden in my home. Hopefully FDIC insurance still works.

I think it was a terrible idea because it was just more colonization. Just like Israel it’s not like Liberia was just empty. There were more than enough resources for integration, they were just unevenly distributed, history of capitalism blah blah.