Yes, indeed. So really what you need from a president is a trustworthy image and a baseline moral character, because all the actual governance minutiae is handled by the staff.
So why is it that all these people come out of the woodwork to insist the president NEEDS to be mired in one of the most corrupt political systems in the developed world?
Strange that an ailing old man has his administration behind him to do all the gruntwork but an actually popular candidate wouldn’t
And it will be again in 2026. And 2028. And 2030 if those don’t work…
The Nazis are in the Reichstag. It ends with the death of the Republic or a civil war, period.
It’s not elder abuse for Trump because Nazis aren’t people.
I’ll vote for a senile old man who wants universal healthcare and won’t help do a genocide any day of the week.
I’ll also vote for a senile old liberal who’s the opposite of both of those things when the alternative is a fuckin Nazi, but that doesn’t mean I’ll be quiet about my displeasure.
I mean, I think it devolved into a literal mental breakdown at the end. That or it was just a freeform poem all along.
And everyone who cares about facts would never vote for him.
People didn’t forget. They never cared. Biden didn’t win by 5 million votes (and that’s not actually a significant percentage), he won by 50k votes in a few counties that flipped their states.
What if that was the max?
Uh, if there’s a “rest of the world” why haven’t I seen it?
Yeah most of them know their balls are being busted by “Satanists”
Because they’re fucking Nazis, how many ways do they need to prove it to you?
I’m sorry that happened, but am still surprised that you’re surprised.
Just a note for people who don’t know:
Not only did the Italian Fascists not make the trains run on time, the German Autobahn was created and planned out by the Weimar Republic, and the Spanish Miracle was the liberal nations investing in Spain to fix all the damage caused by the civil war the fascists started and invented several war crimes in (a bribery scheme so Franco would stop still doing war crimes after he was forced to admit autarky is a moronic idea).
So whenever someone drops that “trains running on time” argument seriously and not to mock conservative idiots, feel free to hit them in the head with a brick.
You just found out why women tell their friends their exact plans for first dates.
When it’s to attack a foreign nation that’s not even threatening you, for sure. Definitely a weapon of the capitalist class against both their own people and other capitalists.
But when you’re being attacked?
I don’t have a problem with, for random example, the Soviet Union drafting millions of people to beat the Nazis. Or America. Or Britain. Just the aggressors in a war are committing enslavement, the defenders can at least be argued to being entitled to a collectivised defense.
I’d say even Mao drafting people for the Civil War didn’t count (all people living under capitalism being understood to be being attacked and the KMT being genocidal corrupt warlords regardless who started the first period of the war in the first place)
It will never stop being absurd to me that so called “fiscal conservatives” can’t seem to understand what a limited resource is. Or pollution.
Even if global warming was a complete hoax we should still be transitioning. Every nation that doesn’t have immense oil reserves should be transitioning! It’s literally in your national interests you nationalist fuckwits!
It’s only polite to assume strangers matter until proven otherwise /s
Hospitals won’t accept paid blood transfusions, but there are two paid markets for what they CALL donations but are sales.
If this person was talking about paid transfusions there’s a subset of parasite that literally just pays young people for elective red cell transfusions. This was actually a plot point in Silicon Valley and it wasn’t a bad depiction of the relationship. Basically, it makes the recipient feel a little more energetic because that’s literally how blood transfusions work, but these old leeches think there’s something special about it
The other is just paid plasma. It’s got a lot of use in industry but regular apheresis is both time consuming and much more risky than they pretend, so they have to offer financial incentives. This blood (plasma) is NOT transfused directly, it is used in various industries for anything from hemophilia treatments to makeup.
Direct transfusions have a higher risk to the recipient so accepting paid transfusions is just not worth it if you have any choice at all, and the nature of paid plasma products demonstrates quite readily why it’s an unacceptable risk, even with improved testing. Hemophiliacs were actually the highest risk group during the AIDs crisis by 3x the rate of gay men. You simply cannot trust people to be safe with other people’s health when money is involved.
Don’t think too much about the implications for for-profit healthcare as a whole.