It’s almost like cutting spending was never the actual plan, and they were more likely using that as a smokescreen for ideologically guided attacks on institutions they disagreed with.

Maybe that claim would hold water if there was any evidence at all that Trump wasn’t a brain damaged idiot spiraling into senility. It stops being pretending when every single appearance, every interview, every second of contact, every policy enacted, every opinion presented, and every decision made are all exactly what a complete idiot would do. He’s not playing 4D Chess, he doesn’t have some secret master plan, he’s a pants shitting moron who’s hateful rhetoric and willingness to punch down appealed to the low end of the bell curve and got them excited enough to vote.

On message for the goons who want to completely eradicate the Department of Education.

With all of the absolutely blatant market manipulation he’s done just since he took office, one more charge isn’t going to mean shit when there haven’t been any consequences yet, and probably won’t be any time soon if ever. Anyone else breaking the law this openly and this often would in the very least be in jail without bail awaiting trial, if not already firmly in prison.

This will be fine. Everyone knows that cutting costs and corners to make a buck works, and airplane repair is a hugely expensive and time consuming process! There HAVE to be corners to cut! Why are you replacing that part? Just give it a spit shine and stick it back on, good as new! Does that thing move when it’s not supposed to? Slap some duct tape on there, it’ll be fine. Was it supposed to move and it doesn’t? An overhaul is so expensive, just hit it with WD-40 and you’re clear for takeoff! And hey, next time a plane crashes, get a couple of flatbeds out there ASAP and grab up all those free replacement parts scattered among the bodies!

Good. Since that’s the only feedback he notices, then good.

Pretty basic really. People keep calling him a Russian asset, compromise, a puppet of the Kremlin. So, he’ll scream and shout and rattle his plastic saber about how he’s totally going to fight Russia for real in an effort to placate the claims that Russia owns him. He won’t actually do anything of substance against Russia’s interests.

Remember kids, doing crimes is only a crime if you’re poor. When you’re rich and connected you don’t even have to try to hide it!

And if anyone calls them out on it, they’re immediately branded as “pedophile sympathizers” if not actual pedophiles themselves. So, not only do they get to be violent monsters, saying that they shouldn’t commit horrible violence without any sort of legal oversight (or at all, really) makes YOU the bad guy!

Republicans would be the first ones to bend the knee to escape the purges.

They were completely fine with screwing everyone else over, fucking up the planet so long as the chief consequences didn’t hit until AFTER they died off, but now that their Social Security is on the chopping block they’re finally noticing.

Edit: Oh and they want to pay them below minimum wage!

Well obviously. Leave it to Republicans to encourage pushing children into the workforce to fill the gaps Republicans created, but then also insist that because children are poor workers they should be paid less.

So what, do we have to call it Sparkling Fascism now when the unelected bureaucrat does a literal Nazi salute?

It’s become pretty clear that Reddit has chosen to slide into corpo-fascism. Don’t be surprised when signs of dissent are squashed, when rebellious subreddits are systematically suppressed until they’re removed entirely, when the accounts of those who resist are closed and IP banned. Abandon all hope of free expression there, they’ve chosen their side and aren’t going to entertain the opposition any longer.

Ironic really, given how right here the cuntservatives are just chasing their own tail.

Now he needs to drive around in it while we all absolutely pray for the funniest thing in the world to happen.

Not just useless but actively unwelcome.

What if we just, like, gave you a little part of the measles? Like whatever’s on the outside of the virus, so your immune system can just know to attack that?

If only there was some way we could train our immune systems to fight off Measles without having to actually infect ourselves with it. That way an immediate immune response could keep the disease from ever taking root to begin with! I blame those fucking scientists for not thinking of this already, they’re probably too busy making fake climate change scare articles. ^/s

If the primary benefit was reduced electricity usage, then that’s not a function of crypto mining, that’s just less heating. You would get the exact same results with an electric heater maintaining the same temperatures. You have demonstrated that turning the heat down by a few degrees can save a noticeable amount of money.

You got some crypto out of it, about $13.50 worth, at the cost of whatever wear and tear and reduction in life your computer systems may have suffered, but in the end all you did was just put in a whole lot of effort to turn down the thermostat.