Batdog

Tireless warrior, fighting against FUD. I am the shadow that barks in the night.

[Batdog @Batdog16]

@elonmusk @SenSchumer Totally scientific anecdotal data…

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@WaldosMomkf @AJP_1776 @allenanalysis Don’t feed the bots

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@Zorglub597 He didn’t.

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@franklin_tzz @GavinNewsom “safeguarding truth” as long as it’s only the truth we want you to hear, right. Not like, the ACTUAL truth, because that would just be unfair…

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@donwinslow Your first mistake is thinking he’s a president. He may hold that position, but as a person, he isn’t.

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@IndomitableChad @GavinNewsom @realDonaldTrump Thank fuck

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@shop_pop_7795 @Shaan_KunwarX @TimHannan @grok “I believe it because my supreme leader said so!”

[Grok @grok]

Based on facts: Trump switched parties (not lifelong conservative), faced multiple bankruptcies and convictions (criminal record), tariffs burden U.S. consumers per economists, Putin invaded Ukraine unprovoked, and Acosta handled Epstein's plea deal before Trump's cabinet appointment. The poster's grounded in reality, not smoke.

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

TRUMP SUPPORTERS: We know you're uncomfortable. Things don't add up. You're conflicted. What you feel is COGNITIVE DISSONANCE. We'll be straight with you:
He was never a builder. He was never competent. He was never conservative. He was never "one of you." He is a lifelong criminal whose only skills are committing the con, grabbing the grift, fabricating the fraud, and avoiding accountability.
And come on now ... "The Apprentice?" It was ONLY A TV SHOW!
Stop the defiance and come back to the light. Foreign countries do NOT pay his tariffs - WE DO. Putin started the war in Ukraine WITHOUT PROVOCATION and is a war criminal. The guy who let Epstein off is Alex Acosta, and Trump rewarded him with a cabinet position. Half the people in Trump's cabinet now, are billionaires - Trump IS the deep state.
America is stronger with less tribal disagreement. Open your minds to truth, however unpleasant.
You know he's old and you know he's losing it.
You know Vance would soon be running things, and you know you don't even like or trust Vance.
You know America is way better without all this mid-census gerrymandering. That should piss YOU off too.
And if you can try to open your minds to the toughest truth of all, you'll know - the reason you feel uncomfortable and conflicted and cognitively dissonant, is because ... you've been played.

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

This rescue kitten was abused by her previous owners, but her new foster mom knows exactly how to gain her trust.. 🥺

[Machine Pun Kelly 🇺🇦 @KellyScaletta]

Addressing the dumbest arguments about tariffs.

1. Tariffs are ALWAYS paid by the importer. Every time. Without fail. The importer has to pay the US Treasury the tariff before it is released from its port. That's what a tariff is. It's how they work.

2. Tariffs are typically passed on to customers. How much they are passed on is called a "pass-through rate. Remember Trump's tariffs on washing machines? The pass-through rate on Trump's 2018 washing machine tariff was between 108% and 225%. And it also raised the price of dryers, since they are usually sold as a set.

3. "Buying American" is a myth. No matter what you buy, the cost is affected by tariffs on some level. Let's say you buy American grown beef. The cattle has to eat, right? So the farmer gets silage from a corn farmer. And that corn farmer needs fertilizer, and that fertilizer probably comes from Canada. So the cost of growing the corn goes up, which causes the cost of feeding the cattle to go, which causes the cost of beef to go up.

4. Even if by some miracle, you found something 100% home-grown in every imaginable way where all the manufacturing parts are also made in America and all the aluminum and steel and raw materials for the parts were made in America (Grok said there weren't any) the prices would STILL go up because the price of all the items needed to produce it would go up because of the laws of supply and demand.

5. Countries don't pay tariffs. Can we stop this stupid-ass argument? There is no transaction between COUNTRIES. An IMPORTER (a private business) imports goods from an EXPORTER (another private business) because people in the importing country want those goods and will buy them.

6. There is a big difference between "tariffs" and "corporate taxes." For starters, not all importers are big corporations. But also corporate taxes are taxes on corporate income, not taxes on costs. If you make the taxes on COST go up you make the sell price go up.

7. Corporate taxes are PROGRESSIVE which means the more you make, the more of your income is taxed. Tariffs are REGRESSIVE, meaning the LESS you make the more of your income is taxed.

8. Taiffs are already starting to affect prices, but we haven't had the full brunt of it yet for a couple of reasons. First, most of the tariffs have only just gone through in the last 2-3 months and it takes time for the ripple effect to hit. Second, many corporations stocked up on imports ahead of the anticipated trade war (hence the negative GDP growth rate in the first quarter, as net exports is part of GDP).

9. It is not about whether tariffs are "good" or "bad." It's about whether Trump's use of them is completely fucking stupid or not. And it is. Fire is a tool, just like tariffs. But if you burn down your house to cook dinner, you're an idiot. Trump's "tariff every product on every country in the world" is like burning down the house to light a match. It's appallingly stupid.

10. I don't have a 10 yet, but I felt I needed to put this here to round it out. Congrats if you read this far.

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@LastTrueRoman @RepMTG This is not a dictatorship

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@GigaBasedDad Religion

[ML Smith @maria48308]

It’s an old clip but what she said back then still stands today.

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@charliekirk11 Totally made forget all Trump’s crimes. And I’ve never even heard of the Epstein files…

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@akafaceUS

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@WurzelRoot He’s right about that (his supporters)

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@RedpillDrifter And you’re daft enough to eat whatever he vomits up

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@iluminatibot Corruption

[Batdog @Batdog16]

@grok Given that, what’s the likelihood of Trump being in the Epstein files, and/or a pedophile?