Which means, as the law is being followed in the US right now, only the plebs at the bottom might be held responsible.

The thing is, everything has gone exactly right and to plan for Trump and his cronies. All he meant to accomplish was making himself billions, making his family and friends billions, and keeping himself out of jail. Ten months into his term, he has accomplished that. He may even get the remaining 3+ years to continue the grift. Anyone who seriously expected different, is insane.

Probably the only way is to start anonymously recommending any Republicans/MEGA for deportation. Most people don’t live their day to day lives with official papers and passports on them. Just say they are good at faking being American but are actually here illegally from whatever country their ancestors came from. They might not get deported but they might spend some time in ICE detention.

My Pixel 6a has about 18 months of support left. I doubt I will be buying any other American based phone then so I’m seriously considering not having a smart phone. I think I have an old flip phone in the closet. It may come back into play.

I don’t know. Microsoft has a multi decade history of forcing people into using an trash product due to CIA/govt contracts corruption or something, never due to being the superior product on the market. So why would anyone think they’d deliver anything worthwhile now? A bunch of crap that you have to overpay to be underwhelmed by has always been their standard.

I’m sure that they will turn against him, much like the face-eaten crowd, right up until the next election when they will miraculously forget and yet again vote GOP no matter what. Only Democrats vote against their politicians for perceived or real infractions.

Should she have hit him? Probably not but I can understand the frustration at being abused and none of the adults willing to do anything about it. However, if they could expel her for hitting why hasn’t the boy been kicked out for producing pornography? Surely that is several times worse than a mere hit? Why haven’t the police charged the boy with sexual harassment?

All US benefits are the same - evil unless a specific conservative person needs them, then they are justified - see abortion, divorce, SNAP, welfare, healthcare, government loans, tax exemptions, etc.

That little? I would have thought it was much, much higher. Almost everything on every social media sites is marketing barely in disguise.

I will lose all respect for Kimmel and refuse to watch him if he accepts their proposal to make an apology and donation. Nothing he said warrants that. Plus unless he switches to constantly kissing Trump & MEGA asses, they will be trying to shut him down again in the near future. Unless Trump is gone, all US media will soon be propaganda only. Maybe he can get picked up in the UK or EU or Canada instead.

They have to believe it is a choice. If not, they are equally at risk of losing everything and becoming homeless and that terrifies most people. Picard’s “you can do everything right and still fail” is not something most people want to know. No one wants to be impoverished, homeless, sick, mentally unwell. Instead they find it comforting to believe that this is happening to others simply because that person made the wrong choice. The same happens for success. The one who make it would have everyone believe that if they made the exact same choices, they too would be rich and that opportunity, chance, luck have nothing to do with it.

I don’t think it will get better. Trump is doing shit that will be nearly impossible to reverse even if he and the GOP give up power sometime in the future. Trump will eventually bring jobs back to the US - by making the country into 3rd world status with incomes to rival the current poorest countries of the world and no government oversight or regulation. Who in their right mind would want to travel to that?

Since half of Americans are functionally illiterate, how would they read for fun?

I tried watching South Park years ago and it wasn’t for me. Funny though that many of the more conservative people I know, who embraced the show for years, now think it isn’t funny since they are on the receiving end of its humour.

I’m none of those however I believe they are right to view it negatively. The rest of us should be just a wary.

Anyone even remotely surprised?

I guess other countries won’t need to defend themselves against the US in the future because Trump is actively trying to kill off more Americans than any other country could.

Another reason not to buy American produce.

Last time housing prices crashed in the USA, people’s incomes crashed as well or their mortgage obtaining ability did. All it meant was that the already rich and corporations were able to buy up real estate cheap. Did not remotely help 90% of the population.

Bezos isn’t any better, just quieter than Musk.