I'm definitely an exception to this trend. Trump made me far more patriotic because his efforts to destroy the best parts of our country made me appreciate many things I had taken for granted. I now see it as vital to claim and contest American-ness.
The sheer scale of a trillion dollars can be hard to comprehend. Let me put it in perspective. You would have to earn a dollar a year for a trillion years straight to have that much money.
CNN = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.
CBS = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.
FOX = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.
WaPo = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.
WSJ = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.
Ah yes, tell me more about how the mainstream media is “far left.”
Trump is poised to effectively steal $1.7 BILLION in taxpayer funds to pay off January 6ers and other political allies, without any oversight by Congress and despite the fact that the people who’ll be handed cash straight from our paychecks don’t have viable legal claims.
As suspending the federal gas tax gains traction in Washington, a prescient reminder from our Senior Fellow @paulkrugman: gas tax holidays are largely a windfall for producers that barely move prices at the pump for the consumers suffering from inflation.
Average 50 year old in 2016: Hey! You wanna look up from your freakin’ phone and join the real world?
Average 60 year old now: [activates Meta glasses] We got a Karen here, yall! Wave to the chat you chopped ass ho!
I miss the internet of the late 2000s. People used to send free mp3 files to one another, and when you searched something on Google you found a relevant forum, not pages of AI slop.
The inevitable result of capital taking over the digital world.
Every so often (I mean frequently) I see a voter articulate their rationale in such a way that makes me want to smash a whole whiskey bottle across my head.
Am I the only one who remembers a year ago when a bunch of teenagers said we had to cut the funding to like Sesame Street and AIDS prevention because we were on the verge of financial collapse? Did we all just imagine that?