America is Fucked
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Becoming a Supreme Court Justice is probably peak career for most people in law. For any lawyer, it’s a dream come true. Your writings and opinions will be read and discussed for generations. Your biography will become a small part of US history. Amazing.
But it must lose a tiny bit of luster for the ones who were nominated and confirmed by a president who’s name will go down in history as “generally agreed upon to be one of the worst presidents in the history of the country.” That will also be a part of their legacy and bios.
- Millions of people, today, consider him the best president that has ever existed, and ever will.monospaced
- Yes but that’s not how history works. Popularity during presidency is no indicator of how history will view himnb
- People keep saying George Bush is a sound lad now because he draws cats and veterans.PhanLo
- Well, in Bush’s defense, if you have a much worse president shortly after then you move down the list of “worst presidents of all time”nb
- There is no amount of cat paintings that will change the fact that the Iraq war drew the largest protest in US historynb
- ... and broke the records for size of protest in many other countries around the world. History won’t refute those numbers (unless they are beaten one day)nb
- https://en.wikipedia…nb
- History books will not forget that WMDs were never found, and that Iraq had no direct connection to 9/11nb
- History books will not include stories of Bush’s retirement as a fine artistnb
- It can be debated which one is worse...Bush killed hundreds of thousands of people with his stupid wars and tanked the world economy.yuekit
- Trump radicalized half the country into insane conspiracy theorists and will possibly end up destroying American democracy entirely...it's a close contest.yuekit
- yuekit3
Roberts Is The Man Behind The Curtain
David Sirota writes about chief justice John Roberts’ crusade to legalize corruption...
- He's right that mainstream media portrayed this guy as a moderate...when in fact he totally corrupted American politics.yuekit
- Corporations and billionaires can funnel money directly into the bank accounts of politicians, this is legal now thanks to the SC.yuekit
- 6 of them are killers. Every way they can destroy us, they will.CyBrainX
- grafician0
- Not only the US, kinda the same in Europe
Meanwhile wages...grafician - i thought 4/20 was the all time high date.sarahfailin
- "Smoke weed every day"kaiyohtee
- Not only the US, kinda the same in Europe
- neverscared2
AP sources say the FBI has opened an investigation into sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in New Orleans going back decades, looking specifically at whether priests took children across state lines to molest them.
More than a dozen alleged victims have been interviewed in a federal probe exploring whether predator priests in New Orleans can be prosecuted under the Mann Act, an anti-sex trafficking law that prohibits taking anyone across state lines for illicit sex.
- yuekit1
Meanwhile..."Q" returns
- Ramanisky26
https://apnews.com/article/supre…
The court ruled 6-3 that the Clean Air Act does not give the Environmental Protection Agency broad authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that contribute to global warming.
- scotus has gone native!hans_glib
- kangaroo court is in session!brandonp
- They have to be stopped at any cost. We started this country for reasons were debatably more benign than what these killers have done to us in a week.CyBrainX
- This Rogue SCOTUS is worse than a politician. Virtually unlimited power. They must be stopped.formed
- Storm the capitol!palimpsest
- Who are y’all gonna vote for at the next EPA election?Gnash
- 6-3... why does that split sound familiar?akiersky
- Scrotustank02
- we fuckedutopian
- The Supreme Court is fucked in the head, they place some esoteric right-wing legal interpretation over survival of the planet.yuekit
- It's amazing that apparently there are no adults in charge...this decision will likely lead to climate change being much worse and wreck havoc on the world.yuekit
- The abortion decision is equally terrible and unscientific...all these decisions undermine America's influence and power in the world and set the stage foryuekit
- extreme social division for years to come, maybe worse...Russia and China couldn't have done a better job undermining America than the conservative SC.yuekit
- Everyone who supported this nonsense, because you were concerned about the social justice warriors or whatever, should be ashamed of your own stupidity.yuekit
- lol who said around here that what happens in the US doesn't affect the rest of us and we should mind our business
moransgrafician - btw the US and China are the biggest polluters, thanks guysgrafician
- formed3
EPA is just the start...
"Supreme Court Will Review Case That Could Spur Partisan Gerrymandering and Endanger Voting Rights"
- America is sooo fucked.brandonp
- Yup. It's like Trump disease has infected them, too, and they now feel empowered to destroy. Fuck them.formed
- SCOTUS rules against a livable climate. This is murderous madness.neverscared
- we fuckedutopian
- neverscared0
A quarter of Americans open to taking up arms against government, poll says
The data suggests that extreme polarization in US politics – and its impact on Americans’ relationships with each other – remain strong. These statistics come as a congressional committee is holding public hearings on the January 6 insurrection.
- "69% of self-described “strong Republicans”, 65% of self-described “very conservative” persons" feel like strangers in their own country...brandonp
- maybe, just maybe, if they pulled their heads out of Fox New's asshole, they'd be exposed to more than one ideology based on fear and division.brandonp
- but my faith in that % of the population getting over their distorted bias is extremely low. SO we're fucked!brandonp
- seriously considering buying a gun...formed
- They'd be better off taking up arms against the supreme court.Continuity
- The culture war seems to be going well.Chimp
- Ramanisky25
30 year old woman draws what she thinks the US map looks like. LOL I like this quite a lot.
- She got the Canada / Florida ratio pretty close (from the point of view of a seagull in Miami).mort_
- Viva MexicaYakuZoku
- Canada. Wow.monospaced
- Alaska is warm this time of the year._niko
- Also those damn Hawaiian immigrants always escaping to Florida on rafts_niko
- its only a sketch..neverscared
- I note with some amusement the Pacific swapped places whilst I wasn't looking.Continuity
- There are the miserable fucks who bullied anyone carrying books as a child.CyBrainX
- Ramanisky22
- Where is democracy? They were not voted in, this looks like tyranny, this looks like fascism. Next step theocracy._niko
- lol Trump was just a tool in the GOP plans to rule SC and impose their willgrafician
- Don't you love when people refer to this as threats to our "democracy"? When do we admit we don't live in one?CyBrainX
- yuekit3
Meanwhile Clarence Thomas is babbling about how vaccines are made from the cells of aborted children
- fucker is batshit insanetank02
- Nope https://twitter.com/…NonEntity
- And this uncle Clarence is in charge of making laws based on science. What a fucked up system.monospaced
- nb2
I’m honestly confused as to how most Americans are surviving this inflation. We’ve heard for 5 years that a 40% of Americans could not afford an unplanned $400 expense with cash or credit that they could pay off quickly.
Personally, I’m part of what Fox News calls the liberal elite. We live in NYC, don’t own a car, WFH is readily available, and we have far more than $400 in an emergency fund. We have decent health insurance and are generally healthy. Our landlord is lovely and doesn’t raise the rent much.
But many years ago I was a guy who relied on his car for work, lived paycheck to paycheck and was always in debt. I had no one to bail me out. I know what it’s like to struggle financially for years. To be underwater with no way to get your head above your debt.
If I was living that life now? With gas and food skyrocketing? With rents going up 20 to 60%?
I hear everyone complaining about inflation on social media, but my question is HOW are they paying for things? Where is the money coming from?
- More debt?
Also EU inflation at over 8% now...
Same situation.grafician - Is credit card debt endless for them? And you usually can’t pay rent or mortgage on your credit card.nb
- Isn’t a third of the country going to go bankrupt within 6 to 12 months?nb
- @Grafician, do they blame Biden for EU inflation too?CyBrainX
- Blame on Putin, war, China, pandemic, local govs, Putin...grafician
- Who'd have thought that printing shit tons of money in the pandemic would have an effect on inflation.Chimp
- Household savings skyrocketed during the pandemic and still remain at some of the highest levels. That money is contributing to inflation as spending isn'tformed
- going down. Until spending goes down, inflation will go up. So once those savings are depleted, we'll be in a real recession and inflation will taper off.formed
- We have to pray it's a 'normal' recession and not a real 'crash'. Either way, everything is going further down.formed
- https://www.youtube.…Chimp
- Just read in WSJ that the savings will be depleted by September. Just a couple months.monospaced
- More debt?
- Bluejam0
- via https://twitter.com/…Bluejam
- Beyond dumb as fuckmrAtor
- Not stab proof, could get knife through that gap on the front thereshapesalad
- Arm the children!fooler
- obviously this is political commentary.sarahfailin
- Ramanisky20
From last nights Primary debate.
Wyoming is not sending their best.
- Amazing soundbytesnb
- This is all a set up by The Democrats, Ukraines, all the major internets and Mr Fauci. Because they love Liz Cheney... she’s an inside job!!nb
- And Liz is losing in the polls. It's repeat Trump conspiracies or be voted out. How is this real?aliastime
- The political parties operate like mafia families. Trump is a perfect mob boss; too powerful for the familia to take him out. Yet.nb
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- Oh pleasenb
- This is a ridiculous statement and a good example of why many people hate the young leftnb
- omahadesigns is a troll account who just posts stupid takes, ignore themyuekit
- And you wonder why people like trump gain traction.Chimp
- Why chimp?monospaced
- Because they relate to bigoted assholes with poor education and an ignorance of basic human decency?monospaced
- nb0
The used car market is on the brink of an auto loan collapse that can shake the entire industry.
I am shocked that more people are not talking about this!
We are facing a 2008-ish scenario in the used car market and honestly, it's a disaster waiting to happen.
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https://twitter.com/grahamstepha…- I will say this won’t crash any banks. Nor will people lose their homes. So it ain’t 2008nb
- Well, if they’re on the line for $20-50k for that vehicle, the house is certainly next in line. It could easily domino.monospaced
- From Graham Stephan...a clickbait Youtube troll?BusterBoy
- neverscared2
“All the major internets”
This wasn't SNL on a Thursday night.
This was Wyoming's Republican primary debate.
