Reading them, no. But fuckers love buying them and handing them out. Nothing a conservative uncle loves more than sliding a copy of Atlas Shrugged across the table and saying “Read this if you want to learn about Real Communism, kid”.

Imagine how many copies this sold

They say AI can’t replace us, but that’s exactly what I’d tell my boss

Maybe she gets a slot on Bari Weiss’s 60 Minutes and a credit on the next Mission Impossible film

Sort of like how “Al-Qaida in Iraq / Syria / etc” wasn’t a real organization, just a way of publicizing the War on Terror in a language Americans reflexively accepted.

We’re going to see random people persecuted as “Members of Antifa” in the same way we spied on and harassed anti-War Quackers and anti-Genocide college students by affiliating them with “terrorist groups”

When the revolution comes, I’ll change my views to fall in line with the party line established by the Glorious People’s Republic of JoeRoganStan.

She’s a different kind of stupid I guess.

She’s going to get a dozen book deals from conservative publishers. She’ll land a talking head spot on FOX News. She’ll hook up with Steven Mnuchin’s cousin or get Baron Trump’s baby in her or just marries a party mega-donor. Maybe she runs for AG in Virginia in 2029 and rides in on a Republican reactionary wave after President Pete Buttigieg shits the bed. If nothing else, they’ll be posting jerk-off material of her on Grok for the next twenty years. I’m sure there’s a way to monetize that.

If you think that’s stupid, you’re thinking she’s playing a different game. Her card is punched.

Okay, but in their defense, Lindsey Halligan is an absolute smoke-show.

Poutine backed Trump’s campaign

It’s so weird to see guys like the Mercers and the Adelsons put up hundreds of millions of dollars in support of Trump. FFS, the Qatars donated more money via the Kushner back door. Nobody seems to give a shit. It’s always Putin, Putin, Putin. Like, the entire domestic O&G industry is backing this guy, but nobody seems to give a shit about Exxon or Chevron or Energy Transfer LP.

The Nixon situation is a drop in the ocean

My Brother In Christ, please at least pretend to learn about the Vietnam War, the Chilean Coup, or the 1971 campaign to conduct a nationwide pogrom against brown voters and liberal organizers under the guise of the Drug War.

Nixon isn’t a drop in the ocean, he’s the mushroom cloud in the distance. You’re only now feeling the shockwave and the radioactive burn.

Biden came into office in 2021 with the promise to root out corruption. After four years, he’d dramatically inflated the incomes of Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, turned his back on Donald Trump, laundered billions to his friends at AIPAC, and spent two years trying to force the sale of US branch of TikTok to Steven Mnuchin.

With liberals like that, who can really be surprised when the nation swings conservative again? Biden effectively self-financed his party’s defeat.

apathy and not voting, which is exactly what Republicans want

Between 2014 and 2024, Republicans became enthusiastic advocates for higher voter turnout. Trump’s wins in 2016 and 2024 came through record numbers of Republican voters turning out in both the primary and general elections. Republicans have maintained control of Texas, Ohio, and Florida and tightly contested states like North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, and Pennsylvania by juicing their base voter participation.

The doggedly myth that Republicans only win when turnout is low was flatly disproven nearly a decade ago. Movement Conservatives have been more successful at turning out new voters in swing states than their Conservative Democrat peers, which is precisely why so many purple-ish states have swung red since the end of the Obama Era.

Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from?

The Ivy League mostly, with honorable mention to Stanford, MIT, and the bigger state Universities.

But also, they tend to come from the nation’s wealthiest families, or as personal friends and social relations of these ultra-wealthy elites.

they are elected by American citizens

We had a 44 year run during which a Bush or a Clinton was a leading contender for President (1976 - 2020). What do you do when your options are so limited? Hell, guys like Trump and Biden are the outliers.

Get down to the state and local levels, and you’ll see much the same. Perennial incumbents from entrenched social circles cement themselves into power and promote their cronies to surrounding offices. Down in Texas, you can point to the tight-knit social circle of former Bush-Era cronies running the state as their own private fief. Opponents are subject to a litany of subversive tactics, ranging from vigilante harassment to criminal prosecution. Voting participation is deliberately suppressed through both legal and illegal means. And misinformation runs rampant in a press owned and operated by outspoken fascists.

To say people are just picking its leadership on perceived merits is plainly false.

You elected an imbecile, twice.

Idk what you’re talking about. I voted for Joe Biden.

Stop blaming voters

Now see here. I know exactly why Donald Trump is President and it’s because Facebook told my snot-nosed nephew to say “Free Palestine” during Thanksgiving.

I said not a single word about exchange rates

You pointed to article that describes the poverty rate in dollars without asking why a Chinese population would measure poverty with a US currency.

You also failed to read any of the reasoning behind the Chinese claim of “eliminating poverty”, how improvements to public infrastructure contributed to that analysis, and how the UN Poverty metrics fail to include it in their own analysis.

You linked to an article with a final paragraph that you didn’t understand or interrogate.

It’s them who did the most work turning the US fash

Which Russian backed the Nixon presidential campaign?

I’ve been to China and have family from there

I’ve also been to China and I also have family from there.

Taking the train from Nanjing to Wuhan is a fundamentally different experience than driving from Houston to Denver. If you simply refuse to acknowledge the scope of public works and economic development, then dismiss these radical changes by citing the exchange rate between the USD and the Yuan as proof extreme poverty still exists, you’re lying to yourself and to everyone around you.

proof of how it’s done with some level of sense

So long as the government refuses to naturalize a long term resident, it reserves the right to kidnap and exile them for any reason or none at all.

That isn’t sensible in any real sense. It is simply a threat that goes unfulfilled.

I guess that was 4 years ago

Ah yes, the time China invested enormous sums in it’s infrastructure to improve the economy and quality of life of it’s poorest residents.

I guess if your devalue that investment, you can claim China cheated

Not a big deal until you get deported to Ghana, sure