The success the right has had terrorizing sports and pop culture figures into never speaking out about politics can’t be understated.
Why the fuck is the NBA — amid a push to become a global sport — welcome the guy running migrant concentration camps.
the men's hockey team having to go to a 90 minute propaganda speech given by a ranting, senile old pedophile while the women's hockey team gets to party in vegas with flavor flav, wow, sophie's choice
So the scheme is Trump got to use the tariffs as leverage for a year, corporations get bailed out and refunded for costs they passed through to consumers by charging more, the American people pay the costs of the tariffs AND pay to bailout the corporations but don’t get anything in return.
This man is stealing billions of American taxpayer dollars right before our own eyes and officials we elected into public office are absolutely doing nothing about it.
It’s important that you understand what happened last night.
Last night, Stephen Colbert interviewed Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, a candidate who, by all accounts, is on track in the polls to flip Texas blue.
In response, Trump’s FCC reportedly threatened CBS if the interview aired.
CBS caved and pulled the segment, citing “financial reasons.”
In modern American history, no president has been more hostile to free speech than Donald Trump.
But censorship always backfires.
Here’s the full segment Trump didn’t want you to see.
This is, in fact, the kind of development that should terrify every American. The intermingling of private business with government policy, especially business that involves massive data and policy that lacks appropriate legislation, is an insidious pathway to long term fascism.
No bro you’re right the government is definitely looking out for you. The secret police force that doesn’t identify themselves and wears masks has our best interests at heart. Yeah dude the reason your life sucks is because of immigrants. ICE killing nurses is making you safer
I also wanna be clear that we were reported to get like 12 to 15 inches of snow and we’re getting double it and the reason that we do not have accurate forecasting anymore is because of this administration slashing the national weather service budget
the fact that we’re watching american citizens getting shot and killed like game tape, as if the stakes were “did he keep both feet inbounds” shows how desensitized we’ve become to violence
Cheesecake Factory training is up to 4 weeks and then even after that you’re still in a probationary period and have to follow lead servers around until they deem you fit enough to drop brown bread by yourself. Just leaving that here for some framing.