In Hell with 47

[Paraselene]

Jesus fucking christ, you're insane. 74 million people who voted for Trump are all nazis?

Collaborators at best, yes.  If you ask me, most of the magats are worse than nazis.  At least the nazis believed in something. All the magats keep telling me they were just suckers who got had by a con man out on bail.

@ Taylor Swift. Poor magats, just a couple years ago they thought she was singing coded love songs to white supremacy, now they have to watch the other guys kiss their imaginary girlfriend.

I don't know how you can get had by a man who has consistently told it as it is.

[The Grand Nudger]

They don't hear what he says, mostly because he's a babbling lunatic. They ignore what he says and imagine he said whatever they wanted.

For clarity, they keep telling me they got had, but I don't believe them. Ethnic cleansing was a winning message. It polls well across the aisle right now. Republicans came out to get it, and democrats stayed home to allow it.

[Paraselene]

So they're channeling 1940s Germans.

[The Grand Nudger]

Indeed, and they melt down about it because they know they are. They want to be nazis, but they don't want to be seen as nazis, because our society has very effectively stigmatized this. An impossible dilemma. Consider our friends retort. It wasn't any dispute over the facts, instead, he pleaded with us to let the numbers change the facts. On some level, they vote for the chump because they believe him when he says he's their salvation. A win would validate them, and automagically make them not the very bad thing™ they very much are and wish they weren't. Poor things just can't quit him.

[Paraselene]

Isn't there a saying about how all empires eventually fall? Appears as though it's America's turn.

[The Grand Nudger]

The american empire fell awhile ago. Russia is the only place that escaped decolonialization. What we're watching now is the death of a culture.

[Ivan Denisovich]

Indeed, and they melt down about it because they know they are.  They want to be nazis, but they don't want to be seen as nazis, because our society has very effectively stigmatized this.  An impossible dilemma.  Consider our friends retort.  It wasn't any dispute over the facts, instead, he pleaded with us to let the numbers change the facts.  On some level, they vote for the chump because they believe him when he says he's their salvation.  A win would validate them, and automagically make them not the very bad thing™ they very much are and wish they weren't.  Poor things just can't quit him.

Original fascists were bunch of whiny, cowardly, lying bitches. It's no surprise that their successors embody the same traits. It's however riot to watch.

[Paraselene]

In Harry Potter terms, republican officials are death eaters.

Although a more fitting comparison might be to the despair demons of Dragon Age.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Trump has been saying that his proposed tariffs will bring jobs back to the US. Not so fast… 

Shoe Company Steve Madden Getting Out Of China

Steve Madden, a $3 billion shoe company, announced Thursday that it would rapidly halve its Chinese production to avoid Trump’s tariffs. Those plans have been in place for a long time, in anticipation of a Trump victory, according to Steve Madden’s CEO Edward Rosenfeld.

So, all those shoes will now be made in the US, right?

The point of tariffs, in theory, is to incentivize US manufacturing by making imported goods comparatively more expensive to made-in-the-USA stuff. But here’s the catch: Steve Madden isn’t moving its production to the United States. It said it will be sourcing its goods from Cambodia, Vietnam, Mexico, Brazil and some other countries.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Boru

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

In Harry Potter terms, republican officials are death eaters.

Although a more fitting comparison might be to the despair demons of Dragon Age.

In LOTR terms, Republican officials are the Nazgûl, party functionaries are the Uruk Hai, and rank-and-file voters are the goblins of the Misty Mountains.

Boru