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Even if there was 4k 360° video of Renee being murdered by this scum the Trump administration would still side with the murderer.
An incident like this is great for MAGA. This is how you find who is truly loyal. The loyal ones will back your cockamamie story to the hilt, and parrot it loudly, often, and with conviction, no matter how indefensible it is.
This separates out those who still have some vestige of morals that can still be reached by an atrocity. Those people are untrustworthy, and must be purged. They want people who will cheer when they massacre peaceful protesters.
Exactly right. I work with a bunch of ride or die maga dick riders and it’s been interesting seeing them over the last year. When the Epstein cover up started last year they all got really quiet and stopped talking about Trump for a good part of the summer and ends of the year. Then he bombed Venezuela and then Renee getting murdered has got them all foaming at the mouth for violence and killing now.
Then you should ask them about Taco's best friend Epstein at every opportunity.
I have from time to time and they all say the same thing. “It’s all fake and a democrat hoax!” They are perfectly brainwashed cult members.
"FUCK YEAH! THIS is what I signed up for!"
That’s pretty much what they said the day after the Venezuela attack. Another thing they like to say now is how we are all gonna be rich because of the cheap gas prices.
You should ask them about the peace prize and how he was going to supposedly be the peace president.
I don't really get how the conservatives that supposedly lost it over W and Iraq, but came back for Taco because "war bad" (yeah right) can keep all that cognitive dissonance straight?
The fact is that W's big failings on: the economy AND Katrina AND Iraq made them feel bad because liberals were getting proven RIGHT. They needed a brief timeout, pretended to be for the made-up astroturfed "teabagger" movement (later rebranded the "tea party" when they realized everyone else knew what teabagging meant, and it made them look gay, not like they were some alpha males getting one over on Obama) and there were a lot of very sudden "independents" among us. So they did that brief timeout thing, then came roaring back and went ballz deep on being a Republican when Taco gave them a permission structure to escape their culpability for all of W's failings AND a permission structure to be openly racist, misogynist, etc...I don't think they really give a shit about wars of aggression being stupid and a drain on our society, nevermind morally objectionable, they just hated that the liberals were all proven correct about Iraq.
They still call Donny the peace president and that he brought peace to the Middle East and he is saving America. It’s hard to have an opposing view when it’s just me vs 9 other people at my job. Most of the time I just listen to them and laugh to myself.
It's those types of situations where I put on my "just asking questions" mode, LOL. Stuff like "how does it count as 'peaceful' to be invading cities and states of America, using ICE? How does it count as 'peaceful' to be sending in people to kidnap another country's leader? What would we do if another country did it to us? Donnie says he be glad to accept the Nobel Peace Prize from the winner of that prize, is that how prizes even work? Or is that just Donnie's participation trophy? In what other case has anything like that ever happened, and the second-hand recipient of a prize ever considered a legitimate owner of that prize?"
It absolutely drives them nuts, especially if they expect to get a rise out of you. I don't get mad, I don't raise my voice. I don't lecture or finger-wag. I just ask more questions; turn their answer around on them, ask them how that makes them feel, how they arrived at that line of thinking, how they personally think any of Taco's worst behaviors and policies will benefit them as individuals in their everyday real, non-online lives, etc.
I do it mostly to plant seeds, though. People tend to just dig in more if you get oppositional. If you ask questions, and don't get angry, it definitely changes the energy.
Oh yea I have done that. I like to play dumb and ask “oh really how does this help us?” And it’s like watching a cartoon first they get all excited to tell me their theory and it’s basically a cookie cutter retelling of a trump speech. And they go so off topic just like their dear leader it’s amazing. And by the end of it they are red in the face and pissed off at everything for no reason.
They are rather easy to get into this loop where they are getting more and more frustrated, since they are almost arguing with themselves. Even though they are also driven on feels and vibes in this mode, I still think they are more likely to have an original thought or question their feelings this way.
Going straight at them just has them yelling slogans and memes and jingoistic nonsense at you. They get to just reel off a playbook of whatever talking points du jour they've been programmed with.
Keeping cool and calm, never getting angry, never raising your voice, but looking them directly in the eyes and not taking the rage bait, and asking them questions about their assertions, their assumptions, and their feelings and their thought processes really puts them on the back foot.
Oh yes I’ve done that before too and it works wonders for me. One thing I enjoy doing is completely changing the subject when they are all hoped up on politics I like to just throw a random question like. “Did you try that new food truck in town?” Or something outa left field. And they just completely changed their attitude instantly. I swear I could probably be a good hypnotist in my town.
Here in Central Florida, the gas price pattern has been consistent for at least two years. It will drop down to about $2.90, maybe even a bit lower, and then on Monday or Tuesday, it will go up to $3.19 in nearly every single gas station in the area. Then it starts to slide down, and when it gets to around $2.90, it jumps back up to $3.19. Every time, for a few years now. Clearly, the prices are totally fixed.
But lately, since affordability has become the most serious drain on MAGA chances in the Midterms, gas prices have been lower. I just returned from a trip over the Holidays, and has is down to $2.70, or even lower.
Obviously, DeSantis is doing his part by forcing gas prices lower somehow, but rather than give him credit for helping out, that begs the question: If they could have lowered prices, why didn't they do it before it started to get them into trouble?
Immediately after the Vemzuelan attack, gas companies said that instability in the oil market was going to cause high prices (which happens anytime a dolphin sneezes near an offshore oil rig), and usually that means the very next fucking day. I expected prices to leap to at least $3.50, but they didn't.
Obviously, they are manipulating the gas prices, to fight the affordability issue. To counter that, I'd like to remind everyone that the average price of a new car is now over $50,000, with a monthly payment over $750. They are now offering 8 year loan terms.
BTW, cars have now become a viable, and acceptable living option. I just read about a college that is building a parking garage for student living in their cars. They could have built a residence hall for them, but better to teach college students that living in your car is a good career strategy, along with taking out tens of thousands in student loans for an education that won't lead to a single job.
What were we talking about?
Oregon gas dropped below 3$ in some places for the first time in a long while. Oversupply is lowering prices, tightening things for domestic oil producers https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/consumers-love-cheap-gas-but-the-oil-patch-will-pay-the-price/ar-AA1TMcpu
This is the point. They don't care.
The goal of releasing the video wasn't to prove the NKVD agent was innocent, it was to prove that the victim was a white liberal lgbt urban woman and thus deserving of death.