circuscritic

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[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 40 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Can you think of any other types of people who might be financially able to volunteer their time here....?

Maybe those who have a vested interest in any number of outcomes that may result from their work there...?

[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Maybe you don't remember Jeff Sessions.

Matt Gaetz could bring another dozen or so, 17 year girls across state lines, and still not reach the scale of evil contained within Trump's former OG AG Keebler.

That's my point. The best you can hope for is someone who also dipshit maxes, hard.

[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Let's be real, he cleared the bar with this one.

Don't forget, the bar was set at Jeff Sessions, and it was even lowered to the doofus who ran the patent protection scam company.

Look, he's not going appoint anyone that isn't awful. The most you can hope for, the best outcome, is favourable funny > evil mix.

I'm comfortable saying that Matt Gaetz, on the grading curve necessary for Trump appointments, clears that bar. He's has at worst a 51% funny to 49% evil ratio.

[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Impressive.

Only one of those words is actually English, and you still managed to use it incorrectly.

Unless it was an extremely misplaced and subtle nod to Alanis Morissette.

[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Stop trying to police language.

Jokes need only to be judged on if they're funny, or not.

[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Star Wars is dead. Long live....wait, no...sorry, it's definitely dead.

[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It is the entire national Democratic party and their gigantic horde of consultants.

People here don't seem to understand that Trump winning to them, is a preferable outcome to someone like Bernie Sanders ever holding power.

I'm not saying they want Trump in office, I'm saying that Trump in office means they retain their jobs and influence. Both of which are predicated upon keeping their voters trained on the idea that campaigns are only about marketing, and politics is about anything other than how it can directly improve their material conditions.

Imagine a Democratic politician broke through the existing power structures and enacted something like Medicare for All. That is is the biggest threat to their power: an actual FDR Democrat. Someone who takes money and power from the donor class, and uses it to directly improve the material conditions for the rest of us.

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