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As a recently laid off mechanic, what the gently caress? Why would you bailout a dead airline industry with no revenue TWICE? How about a bailout for actual people instead of companies that don't need to exist. I was pissed when I heard about the first airline bailout of 2020 because I knew it would go down exactly like 2008. I remember the guy on NPR saying that the 2020 airline bailout money was 'earmarked' for preventing layoffs. Turns out all the major airlines (to varying degrees, American Airlines being the worst) took that 2020 bailout money and used it for buying back their own stocks. If you are a CEO of a huge airline and own lots of stock in that company, buying up shares increases your stock value making you richer and look better at your job (short term) without actually doing anything about the fact that your entire industry is out of business indefinitely. It pisses me off, I don't want taxpayer money being wasted on corporate welfare. Doubly so for corporate welfare for a trade I was a part of that no longer needs to exist. I'm unemployed, I'm taking online classes to be useful at something else. Airline businesses though, an actual concept that is not even a person, we gotta bail them out because their revenue continues to not exist. They serve no purpose, why should american taxes pay for them? Call it a cyclical or structural change, but airline travel is an order of magnitude less than previous years and that is not changing in the near future. Sorry, I meant to say AAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 
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I literally had a dead guy err... sleeping next to my car and that was last year when things were all gravy. So are we going to get Bill Clinton as the new 1st lady this time? 
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Oct 8, 2020 10:31
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So this is their atom bomb? An unreleased sex tape, alleged video proof of violent rape? If you dare to downplay or dismiss the claim then you are heartless and a pro-rapist! Whatever bombshell secret they pretend to have isn't helping Trump any by holding onto it this close to election day. If they had something to leak against Biden they would. Give it to us. And would it even matter if all the evidence comes from Russian spies?
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Oct 19, 2020 05:11
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Simone Magus posted:I wish more people truly internalized that it isn't just white redneck boomers who love trump. Hell just last week I met an 18 year old lesbian who loved trump and believe every bit of the QANON bullshit.
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Nov 2, 2020 18:03
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There is no single hispanic voter bloc, as evidenced by how split the hispanic votes are. But why are hispanic voters choosing Trump in 2020? Well catholic hispanics will vote pro-life as a single-issue. And uhm, as for the rest well... I really don't know why.
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Ivan Dolvich posted:Yeah, blaming the Dems or Biden at this point is misguided in my opinion. 66+ million people chose to vote for a blatant liar, racist, misogynist con-man. Running a more socialist candidate wouldn't have helped (there is a reason Trump tried to paint Biden and Harris as socialists). The people of this country are the problem, not the candidates. Trump is just a symptom, not the disease. I was confused by reactions about this election result somehow being a failure on part of the Dem party to do better against a president as bad as Trump. The Dems could have a much better or much worse candidate, they could have campaigned on stronger policies, there's a lot the Dems could have done different. But 66 million and counting people chose Trump in spite of everything. There's not a lot you can do to reach people when these past 4 years of Trump hasn't changed their mind.
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Nov 4, 2020 20:56
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mobby_6kl posted:The military is probably against him at this point so I doubt he gives a poo poo.
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Nov 5, 2020 01:58
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Trump can't run in 2024 if he is in jail. Surely our justice system won't fail us on this..................
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Funky See Funky Do posted:Nope! They very very carefully choose these people on their ability to unquestioningly follow orders. It's literally a national security thing that the state needs to be as sure as it can possibly be that if/when it gives the orders to launch that everyone turns their keys. Certain subs/silos are designated for attacking certain lists of targets. Those missiles need to be configured to arm and detonate over their target and nowhere else. There's a lot of safeties and checks drilled in to ensure all procedures are followed. We don't have nukes aimed at ourselves. If Trump wanted to do that, he'd have to get with the military to develop new plans to nuke US cities.
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Nov 6, 2020 00:38
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I sure wish my Biden vote from California wasn't worth less than half of what a vote from Wyoming counts for in the EC. But I'm sure we'll turn things around in the 2022 Senate election! That's where 1 vote from Wyoming counts as much as 65 votes in California for choosing Senate seats. And we wonder how scumbags like McConnell continue to plague the senate. Maybe we should fix the constitution so everyone's vote is worth 1 vote. Replace the Senate with a parliament.
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Nov 6, 2020 22:27
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And I'm sensing that dems aren't going to be able to do anything about unfucking the SCOTUS so yikes. On the plus side, stocks are up because markets predict a Biden win without congress will mean a paralyzed government which is good for stocks.
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Nov 6, 2020 22:33
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I love that some Dems reaction to how close this election was is "We need the Democratic party to be more centrist so we can earn some of those Trump votes." Lol no you don't. Those people voted for Trump. Trump after all the horrible things he's done to this country in 4 years. There's no way you could have reached those people. Trump voters are indoctrinated, what you campaign for makes no difference because they never heard you. Tbh I don't think Trump voters even heard Trump's own campaign. Otherwise they would be mad that Trump has been promising a great new healthcare plan that's been 2 months away for 4 years now.
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Nov 11, 2020 20:15
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I feel like I'm still in this weird limbo, an alternate reality. I get denial but it's been over a week now and still he tweets about his landslide victory. How is this POTUS pretending he won the election?
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Nov 21, 2020 22:42
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Is there an actual shift in police arresting Trump supporters that threaten/attack BLM supporters? I want to believe it, but also doubt the cops can see the writing on the wall. There was the pink-haired woman who is probably going to be released the next day without charges. And the pool float mouthbreather who wasn't actually charged for assault (yet) and a sheriff that went out of his way to do nothing about it. Could easily be that nothing has changed other than the media wants to find a juicy story where a violent MAGA person fucks around and gets their just dessert.
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Nov 24, 2020 02:04
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Captain Beans posted:sorry about your current predicament, but also lol Fragile egos seem to be a thing with racists. I think that's why racism goes so handily with fascism. Racists need a political or philosophical mechanism to label white people who oppose racism as part of some other undesirable class. Fascist doctrine gives them just the thing they need.
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Strong Sauce posted:Meanwhile Trump authorized US Marshalls to kill the dude who shot a patriot prayer guy and no one did anything about it. There were three conflicting stories. The first police press release said Reinoehl had his hand on a gun and that they found shell-casings in his vehicle. This is likely the story cops thought they could get away with, it doesn't show up in the official report of the shooting. The remaining conflicting police accounts are that Reinoehl was reaching for a rifle in his car and that Reinoehl was reaching for his concealed weapon. At least these agree that he never pulled out a weapon. Witnesses interviewed by a NY Times reporter say the marshals never even identified themselves before firing and describe it more like an execution. So their official take is these cops shot a suspect to death because they thought he was reaching for a gun, although they can't agree on which gun. I'll never understand how the court of law allows this insane double-standard where an on-duty officer can shoot someone because they feel threatened or think they were reaching for a gun. Imagine if someone gunned down an officer because they felt threatened and the court let them off just like that. That is what our criminal justice system thinks is acceptable, but only for cops. Defunding the police is a start, baby steps.
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I know this has been a year of surprises, but I did not expect to be seeing sitting republicans openly advocating that their states secede from the union over completely made up reasons.
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Grondoth posted:Oh buddy, the Civil War started because Lincoln was elected and the south was afraid that slavery would be banned in their states. Did Lincoln say he was gonna? No. But they were sure he was going to, so they started a god drat war. I haven't seen sitting representatives advocating seceding before. Just a bit weirder that they would do it with no compelling reason.
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Light Gun Man posted:prob when he had covid lmao 
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Remarkable how the MAGA train, despite all their hate and vitriol, is still perfectly okay with gays and minorities in their ranks so long as they are willing to tie themselves to the MAGA image with the rest of them. As long as you are for Trump you are 'one of us.' Their ideals are fake, it's just about belonging. poo poo you could even be a pedophile, they really don't care. I wonder how far one could depart from the MAGA doctrine and still get them to accept you by coming off as a sincere Trump supporter. We need a new Sacha Cohen to infiltrate the Trump ranks with sincere but increasingly outlandish characters. Characters like: I'm a Leninist against the global elites, MAGA Trump 2024! I'm pro-child slavery, lock more children in cages, MAGA Trump 2024! I'm a satanist who also believes in every Trump conspiracy theory, MAGA Trump 2024!
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And it shocked all the totally real masker-wearers at the restaurant, just doing in-person dining with their masks on. I had a post covid date. She showed me a very real UFO picture and I tried to convince her it was a reflection of a ceiling light on her window but I never was able to explain that cell phone camera lenses are small and light resolution is limited by lens size so this image was clearly a close object otherwise it would necessarily be blurry due to physical limitations of lens resolution.
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AlliedBiscuit posted:This guy is apparently a cop. Really healthy to view your political opposition as pure evil and yourself as a WARRIOR for god. Especially when they have a badge and a gun.
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Rod Hoofhearted posted:McCain and Romney both ran on endless war, including Russia, and the American people were just like, "yeah... no, gently caress that." Obama was supposed to be the guy to get us out of Iraq and Afghanistan, and McCain made it easy for him by campaigning on staying in those countries, literally, for "one hundred years." McCain wanted to engage Russia over its attack on the country of Georgia, and nobody wanted anything to do with any of that. Romney wanted to escalate the mideast wars and start some poo poo with Russia, which also seemed laughable at the time. It's literally stupid to think we made it through the Cold War without firing a shot, and then in 2012 we were going to suddenly engage with the Russian Federation over some Eastern bloc bullshit.
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Big Beef City posted:Which is quite a bit different than "openly declaring war" against a nuclear armed adversary and directly attacking them, isn't it One good thing is that Biden will be seeking to secure NATO alliances that Trump shat on.
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insularis posted:My favorite unofficial military patch Idiot buys a nuclear silo and documents his renovation of it, the trainwreck that ensues is impressive even by today's standards. Also I think his family becomes homeless as a result, unless you count the silo as a home.
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horse_ebookmarklet posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXpYFtI0nqU
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Big Beef City posted:Well. Reminds me of a southern coworker saying "People like to worry about politics, but does any of that poo poo have a direct impact on your personal life?" And, lol. That was the same year we saw passengers needing to take buses to and from the planes because of all the protestors outside the airport terminal after Trump's regressive border policies. But hey it's just people protesting, people 'worrying too much' even though they aren't personally affected by those bad immigration policies, right?  That guy was spot on about one thing: me caring about foreign politics was a luxury. Now that the US has become the pitiable shithole of the world, I'm not following China politics or middle east politics anymore because things are so bad here. I'm worried about where I'm going to get food and if my relatives are going to die.
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bees everywhere posted:Man, those suicidal posts on TDW are somethin' else. Their mental health would improve dramatically if they just turned off the internet and thought about something other than Donald Trump for a week or two. 
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Strong Sauce posted:https://twitter.com/mmcauliff/status/1344380432662593536 Trying to decide who should or shouldn't get the $2,000. Come on. Give $2,000 to all the millionaires, all the homeless, and everyone else. Everyone gets $2,000. We don't have time to debate who does or does not 'deserve' or 'need' the money. Let republicans start deciding who is too rich to get $2,000, suddenly you'll have the rich getting all the money again. That's not what we want. Just give the bailout to everyone.
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I'm guessing he threw it in the oven without pre-heating and started the timer from there. The perfect way to slowly burn the outside without searing it so you loose the meat juices as they heat up.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Thedonald.win is dying for FREEDOM Sadly real. They attend a trump rally. Attending the trump rally is protesting a trump rally if you are muslim though, in racist doublespeak.  
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Sydney Bottocks posted:From a few pages back but I'm wondering why people think Biden is just going to automatically pardon Donald Trump, the man who sent Fartin' Rudy out to try and destroy the life of his only surviving son (who already had his own slate of mental and emotional problems) by claiming he was a pedophile with hard drives full of child porn, solely so he could potentially tank Biden's chances at the presidency. Biden doesn't strike me as the sort of fellow who's so  Well Obama and Biden did not give a poo poo. They sent Hayden's rear end packing. I wish I could find the book because Biden might've said something that rubbed him wrong. Mostly he was pissed about being a CIA director being fired on the spot.
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A lotta loving around and not a lotta finding out today
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LifeSunDeath posted:Trump prolly slamming the button on the nuclear football right now but it's been disabled.
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This is the part I was not expecting to happen. I haven't watched all the videos, I know some cops were using pepper spray before they broke into. But cops were doing nothing when they started breaking down the door to the capitol. Standing off to the side and watching.
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What I don't get is how there were so few officers in the first place. Someone made a decision to have that many officers in no riot gear on the 6th. The police knew the chuds were coming, they warned vendors not to come yesterday. Police set up some barricades and manned them with what I could only call skeleton crews. If the police thought they might, potentially, not have enough security, isn't it their job to address that? Congress was also aware of the issue so perhaps some congressional committee is to blame for not taking calling additional government agencies for security? Surely there is some person or people whose job it is to protect congress and lol they suck at it. Absolutely does not forgive the fact that some officers waved the chuds along. "Just a few bad apples" like that doesn't bring shame and dishonor on every officer. They had no idea what people in that mob would do once they got inside the capitol.
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Thank you thread I got my answers a lot faster than I expected to.
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its_my_birthday posted:*reading history books in the future* so trump attempted the first coup and they let him still be president and didn't think he'd try again? an egomaniac psychopath that just had people to prove they'd die for him and people thought then, of all times, is when he would stop? lol what fuckin morons
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My favorite trump moment is when a crowd cheers him for drinking water, it's just... So trump https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO_BdivESOk&t=90s Over 100k americans are already dead and he spends a rally complaining about how people made fun of him for not being able to walk down a ramp at his last rally because he didn't want to get water on his tie.
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