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Should members of the Trump family rule over the United States over the rest of this century?

Is this inevitable? Does this have to happen?

I honestly find this worldview kinda juvenile.

Are we currently witnessing one of the biggest and most blatant and obvious government coverups of all time?

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White people are so pathetically fragile and cannot even be bothered to engage with their own racial history, and this thread is plenty evidence of that fact. It says a lot when calling that out is seen just as racist as lynching a black man for no reason, hanging him, burning the body, calling it a barbecue, and then sending a postcard to another family member about said 'barbecue'

If this upsets you, you're pathetic. I'm not arguing about it, I'm calling you out.

Donald Trump owned casinos, which exploited people's gambling addictions, and he filed for bankruptcy six times in order to try to game the system. He is now considered by a subset of America to be the greatest President of the modern era because of these skills and capabilities. The Republican party either generally supports this or is merely using him as a means to advance their own agenda -- each possibility distasteful. Republicans promote opposite values in their campaigns.

One of the main reasons for appointing Kennedy as the Secretary of Health was so that he could launch mRNA vaccine studies to see if DNA fragments created in the production of mRNA vaccines integrate into human cells, potentially causing cancer. Yet, this hasn't been done yet despite all the other things that have been done already. It also seems like Republicans in general are now actively against mRNA vaccines, withdrawing research funding, including (apparently) not providing funds for research that would prove they are harmful.

I'm starting to think that Republicans never really cared about whether mRNA vaccines were safe to begin with and are simply against anything that is new.

Thoughts or any news that these studies are still going to be done? Or are they never going to be done because they know doing them would prove that they are safe?

Is superman woke or are you just the bad guy?

How could the Empire have been better off?

Why even bother if the government wants us all dead, zombies, or in a military cult?

https://www.kff.org/tracking-the-medicaid-provisions-in-the-2025-budget-bill/

of particular note ...work/education requirements have been enabled unless you can prove your mental illness to a government official, which is sadistic, and if you happen to get cancer without being on medicaid, if you don't somehow get a job or go to school immediately (they will only pay 30 days prior to coverage instead of 90 now, and you have to have worked 30 days prior to the application), you're not covered, which is also sadistic.

(also if a state that hasn't enrolled yet in medicaid expansion, the very good cost-sharing incentive is now gone, meaning they probably won't)

How is this supposed to motivate people to be proud of their country and participate in society, again?

Non-MAGA evangelical takes down MAGA evangelical's bullshit dishonest representation of the Bible to justify ICE raids.

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America should be at war with the China-x-Iran-x-Russian-x-North-Korean alliance (which I've seen sometimes called the 'CRINK' alliance).

This is very obviously the right thing to do. This is a completely ethically justified conflict. These are thoroughly evil regimes that're absolute dictatorships that engage in not just brutal violence against innocents domestically on the basis of bloodthirsty ultranationalist authoritarianism, with ethnic, religious, and racial hatred being let loose, but also against innocents in other nations. They're supporting organized crime. They're supporting terrorism. They're fueling everything from homophobia to religious prejudice to transphobia and more. They're making the world a worse place.

I support Donald Trump's invasion of Iran. I totally do. This is likely the singular first time in my entire life that I've ever seen him say or do anything that's correct, with him being so predicably wrong for multiple decades now that you can almost metaphysically set your watch to him in opposition, but "better late than never".

As somebody who's voted against Trump multiple times over the past several years and am extremely glad since Hillary Clinton very obviously would've been a better President (this is an objective fact) and Joe Biden very obviously was a better President (this is an objective fact), I'm saying this without any regret, let alone any irony: Thank You President Trump.

Down with China. Down with Iran. Down with Russia. Down with North Korea.

And, well, up with Trump.

Who's with me? Who has courage? Who has intelligence? Who is willing to stand against fascism?

...looks like republicans have begun their attack on students. I had been holding out that they might actually help students, especially ones who do well in school by increasing federal student aid and tying it to grades (a sensible conservative position), but they did the opposite.

In short, house republicans wanted to cut the Pell grant for people paying by the credit-hour by increasing the course workload for full Pell grant eligibility from 12 to 15 credit hours, but the senate has rejected the change. They also wanted to reduce the aggregate student loan limit from $57,500 to $50,000 for undergraduates, despite it hasn't been increased in 20 years and there is such a thing as inflation, which devalues that amount.

If you want to get a Master's (becoming a standard requirement for jobs, nowadays), your aggregate loan limit will be drastically reduced from $147,500 to $100,000 (undergraduate loans included) -- so, really if you max out undergrad loans a decrease from $90,000 to $42,500. As Master's programs are more expensive and the Pell grant can't be applied to them, the cut will price people out of everything but the cheapest, lowest-quality, likely online-only schools.

In addition, loans will now be pro-rated, the same as Pell grants currently are, based on part or full-time enrollment. So, if I'm understanding it correctly, you will only get half of your needed living expenses if you only attend part-time -- making it harder to be a student.

Lastly, Grad PLUS loans will be eliminated, which were loans that you could apply for if you were pursuing a Master's degree and your credit wasn't too awful, to help finish paying for college if you max out your other loans.

People entering law school would still have a $200k aggregate student loan limit, so if you want to be a student as long as possible, that might be a path if you can find a cheap online law school.

That having been said, there are still some fairly-easy online-only schools one can find and attend. But as for ever attending a nice college to get your Master's if you're from a middle or working-class family -- don't see how it would be possible, anymore, with these changes.

I expect that Republicans will continue to attack the working, middle-class, and poor so long as they are in power. As the divide between rich and poor increases, and the middle class disappears, recommended financial strategies include either 1) become an enPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Now that the dust has settled, I'll just be the one to say it...

Trump isn't that bad

Trump's ego could lead us world war 3.