Did that actually get paid out? Last I heard the judge said no, multiple times.

But he’s an idiot, and if Vance sees a legit opening he might jump at it.

“I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler,” he wrote privately to an associate on Facebook in 2016.

In another 2016 interview about his book, Vance told a reporter that, although his background would have made him a natural Trump supporter, “the reason, ultimately, that I am not … is because I think that (Trump) is the most-raw expression of a massive finger pointed at other people.”

The Chinese will destroy them

Largely because they can sell at or below cost and still make a profit, because they’re being propped up by the Chinese government.

Domestic production is the legitimate use of tariffs, especially when the target country is effectively hacking their prices lower through subsidies. China wants to Walmart green tech. They want to artificially lower their prices until they’ve driven out all competition permanently.

Just like how Canada’s high tariff on US dairy after a certain limit was valid because they want to retain some of their own production. And the US could literally drown Canada in milk.

He did win the popular vote this time. Not by much. He absolutely does not have a mandate.

Popular vote 77,302,580[2] 75,017,613[2]

Why not? We all know Vance is pretending for the position. If he sees a real shot, he might take it.

Nobody likes Trump as a person. They’re all just grifting.

The trick is getting enough to turn at once, and getting them all to know that there’s enough. A dumb one might rat it out because of greed, but they should know that doesn’t work. If they’re in that position, there’s no further loyalty rewards. The best they can hope for is avoiding retribution, and that’s not even guaranteed.

I wouldn’t go after individual Tesla owners. It wasn’t always like this. They adopted the earliest and cheapest (in the US) EV. I won’t buy one now, but I would have three years ago.

I understand the dealership thing. Are most of them directly corporate?

You know what a normal database is.

The Blockchain is a distributed database instead of a centralized one where normally people can verify that each other part of the database is correct.

Generally anything a distributed database can do, a centralized database in good hands can do better. Except for crimes. It’s more difficult to get away with crimes when they can be shut down in one place.

Also it’s harder to undo Blockchain/crypto stuff. They sell this as a benefit while the primary use is scams and rug pulls.

“The government can’t get your money back.” Yeah, gonna be hard to get back thr money you were scammed out of with a court order, isn’t it.

They also try to sell it as anonymous, but it’s very much not. Everything is on the record, so if they link you to an address (and they generally can), they can see every transaction you’ve ever made. There used to be services to obfuscate this, but the government has well and truly broken through those. They can find you of they want to.

Crypto is a an MLM for guys. You can make money, if you’re lucky enough to be the scammer and not the scammee.

There’s still a difference between “heading” and “already there”. Not as much of one as I’d like, but still.

It’s literally a quote from his debate vs Hillary.

The perfect example is the paranoid ethnostate in the middle east.

You say that, but are they wrong?

The independent Republicans were all pushed out of the party when they opposed Trump. Some were beaten in primaries, most saw it coming and retired.

No shit. His choices are to either double down or admit to himself that he killed his daughter.

Let’s not water down the term “traitor” during, well… you know.

I think it might be easier for them to access closed buildings and servers. I think it makes it easier for them to shut down agencies they don’t like, such as the department of education. And I doubt the federal workers would get back pay this time as they have in the past.

The shutdown would screw a lot of people. The CR could be worse. And the Democrats, as usual, are left to be the only adults in the room. Yeah , the Republicans might eat more blame, questionably, but a lot of people would get hurt regardless.

Plus it’s a great opportunity for dozens of trolls to push a republican narrative on social media. Maybe a message to anyone left-leaning to stop voting.

A shutdown can allow them to dismantle the government faster.

He had his green card. He protested against Israel. He’s now in jail, somewhere unknown.

The judge said he couldn’t be deported because he’s a resident, but he’s still in jail.

The numbers in that “bullet ballots” post were lies. They were convincing if true, but they just weren’t true. North Carolina didn’t have 7.1% bullet ballots, for instance, and the swing states weren’t significantly different from their surrounding states, as he claimed they were.

Part of the reason that post sounded so good is that he gave easily verifiable numbers. But those numbers didn’t verify.

This is the Clinton-era way of thinking. A losing campaign must have done everything wrong, and a winning campaign must have done everything right.

AOC’s district leaned way more heavily towards Trump. Either they cheated literally everywhere or the results were valid.

There was a misleading post about “bullet ballots”, but if you looked into the numbers they didn’t check out.