Tell me you don't know anything about Star Wars w/o telling me you don't know anything about Star Wars.
Of course, there is...
You know, maybe this is like some Emporor level shit, "only I can save you"
Dems: "He has control of the senate and the courts, he's too dangerous!"
Maga: "I need him"
Trump: *sends the dems to El Salvador*
I mean...
I MEAN...
Remember:
Most of the Republicans who are discounting universities, calling Dems elitist, and making college unaffordable went to college and will send their kids to college.
93% of them are college-educated.
Some universities are especially well represented in Congress. For example, about three dozen members of the House (9%) have at least one degree from Harvard University. In the Senate, 13% of senators have at least one degree from Harvard, while 9% have a degree from Yale University and 7% have at least one degree from Georgetown University.
JD Vance went to Yale law. Nearly all of Trump's staff are educated - many from Stanford, Harvard, or Princeton.
Don't let them fool you. There's a reason they don't want you educated:
College-educated folks tend to vote blue.
Just remember everyone - all this tariff stuff, it is just like a home remodel - it'll all be soo much better when it is done.
I mean, it is like if you hired a crew of meth-heads to remodel the kitchen when the kitchen was in okay shape already (just needed like a new stove and new hardware on the cabinets). They spent a week demolishing it, stole all your copper, and then didn't come back for weeks because of "other jobs". In the end you had to go hire someone else to finish, had to pay 2x the original estimates and just wound up with the same kitchen afterwards.
I mean really though, what's the plan? Gut environmental restrictions, remove collective bargaining and destroy unions, and then bring back low paying factory jobs? Fantastic.
We could've gone the route of creating an educated populous that lead the world in innovation but, yeah, bring back factory and mining jobs, that sounds great.
FFS.
Your daily reminder that there are no problems in the world that can't be solved - it is just that solving those things mean that someone will either lose power and/or money in the process.
These problems are caused by the worst parts of capitalism and the worst parts of politics.
That person someone is telling you to hate is just like you, a sack of meat surviving for a blip in time on a rock spinning through space. Always question why you hate those people.
FFS... skating around the law because it had a higher advertised price within the last 3 months. Be careful with products on Amazon and black Friday.
"When marketing products in California, companies need to comply with the State’s General Business Regulations. Within these regulations is a provision titled, “False Advertising in General,” also designated as Section 17501. The law is clear that, “[n]o price shall be advertised as a former price of any advertised thing, unless the alleged former price was the prevailing market price as above defined within three months next immediately preceding the publication of the advertisement or unless the date when the alleged former price did prevail is clearly, exactly and conspicuously stated in the advertisement.” Simply stated, to be “on sale,” the subject item must have had a higher former price within the last three months. This means that if an item is always on sale, then the seller is engaging in false advertising under California law."
A fascinating different look at the election loss: for the first time this has been tracked, the governing party across the board in every developed country lost vote shares in this year's elections.
From the financial times:
"...The incumbents in every single one of the 10 major countries that have been tracked by the ParlGov global research project and held national elections in 2024 were given a kicking by voters. This is the first time this has ever happened in almost 120 years of records.
Ultimately voters don’t distinguish between unpleasant things that their leaders and governments have direct control over, and those that are international phenomena resulting from supply-side disruptions caused by a global pandemic or the warmongering of an ageing autocrat halfway across the world."
For those of us who paid attention to what was going on, we voted accordingly, to those of us who didn't... well... they'll get to see the results in the next few years to their pocketbooks.
https://www.ft.com/content/e8ac09ea-c300-4249-af7d-109003afb893
