I would literally give away a kidney to see that live, through binoculars from about a half mile away.

Ah, but he didn't hire him, he just made him an advisor. Hiring him would required oversight that would have given others a chance to give a firm "Fuck No".

But they're winning! And fucking over "the libs" at the same time!

You don't have to be sneaky, just not fucking miss like the gormless cretin that last tried.

Damn, there's a blast from the past.

City of Heroes.

Such a great example of what an MMO should be. Old, and not without it's flaws, but it did so many things right that even contemporary attempts at the genre miss entirely.

He and his are absolutely immune from the effects. He has proven time and again that he holds everyone in utter contempt, and believes himself above reproach, literally untouchable.

Until someone proves him wrong, he will continue.

The bloke that told others to "Go die of ass cancer."

Oh boy, did he ever tempt fate.

Nothing to do with the plastics and their additives building up in our bodies that act on the endocrine system, no sir.

That really does explain a lot. People (and I use that term very loosely here) like that should be launched into orbit and fucking left there to think about what they've done.

It's as simple as this; he plays to their bigotries. Racists, homophobes, transphobes, xenophobes, religious fundamentalists, all catered for.

"I will hurt those you hate." That was the promise he was elected upon. That is what drives the voting populace, hate. So wrapped up in the hatred of their fellow suffering humans, they willingly choose a childish, senile, selfish, fat, old, "white", paedophile, rapist, reality TV star as their "leader".

And lo, observe the result.

The dildo of consequences, as the saying goes, rarely arrives lubed.

That's propaganda for you.

Rewatched the first half of "Civil War" again (shout out to my boy insomnia -.-) last night.

It's very close to the bone in a lot of places.

The reason you don't have such things is that you haven't, as a nation, taken it. That is after all, "The American Way."

For all you lot bang on about your liberty and freedom, you're a bunch of clueless, hand-wringing, nimbys when it comes down to it.

You have let them take the miles they have by inches. Every gerrymandered district, every disenfranchising rule change, every single lost vote.

Everyone was too scared of losing what they had, that what needed to be done, wasn't. The best time to stop them was back then, the next best is now.

Their loss.

I'd argue that the ultimate cost of these shenanigans is, in fact borne by Tesla and therefore the Nazibro that owns the most shares.

People are put off driving and owning one because they worry about it getting trashed means less sell, and the share price falls.

Side-effect of hurting the fee-fees and finances of the pompous arseholes that bought that stupid shit in the first place?

Awesome.

His point, I think, is the line of whataboutist thinking that got the conversation to this point, from the OP.

Living in the twenties.

It's almost like the vast majority of the country has been mushroom managed (kept in the dark and fed shit) since it's inception.

There's a good reason the dept of education has been assailed by all comers since forever. Privatisation and politicisation of the education of the people; make good, stupid little drones for the corporate machine, either in a cubicle or on a battlefield.

Those that refuse to conform, or are politically "undesirable" are run through the prison slavery pipeline instead.

I sound like a conspiracy theory nutter, but this timeline is so utterly fucked, that it's the truth. How batshit mental is that?

And how did that work out?

Fucking LOL