I thought this as well. This question feels a little lib-brained, but does Trump have any person or faction in his orbit who has the intelligence to understand and the power to act on this knowledge independently? And if not, is there a faction who has the clout and ability to relay this information to Trump in a way that he understands and favours over the advice of the more suicidally racist contingent of his administration?

In the stand up act he’s specifically responding to the criticism that he was perpetuating anti-asian stereotypes. If he was lying, it was a very bold lie.

He addresses this in a standup act. Apparently no, that’s just his dick.

Okay forget about American healthcare, just pretend the United States doesn’t exist for a second. Imagine there is a person whose sister needs special medicine to live. They live in the imperial core and they get their medicine from a imperial core hospital. Is that medicine a treat? What would make that medicine a treat? If it’s not a treat, what is it?

Okay but I guess my central question is whether access to life-saving medication is a treat. Because outside of South Korea and thebUS that is a first-world benefit.

Comforts allotted through super exploitation are enough of an incentive to passively or actively keep capitalism going, even without happiness. these people certainly won’t be any happier without their comforts, and in order to overthrow capitalism we would also end imperialism, and thus those comforts.

We talk about comforts and treats a lot but lately I’ve been wondering about that. What are we talking about when we talk about treats? Is it just exotic fruits, chocolate, coffee, video games and televisions? Or are we including in that other material benefits that a first worlder enjoys that the global south might be cut off from like cheap insulin, access to dialysis machines and chemotherapy? If that’s the case, why shouldn’t a person with a chronically ill loved one not resist tooth and nail an economic change that would result in their death, and what could we possibly say to them to get them on our side? “Stop being such a treat-brained baby loser and make your sister die in pain?”

Well the blackpill that was working it’s way out over the past few days just got jammed back down my throat.

Find out what they seem most passionate about and get them talking about that. Ask questions and try to illicit some sort of deeply held or very sincere statement or beliefs, at which point shout “AND TO THAT I SAY:” and make a huge loud fart.

Names for pets that would also suit a goblin. Wickershins. Elphie. Breadstick. And what have you.

Sometimes a cigar is a cigar AND a dick

He’s basing his picks on whether they’ve been on tv enough for their name to sound vaguely familiar to him. He’s choosing his cabinet the way most people vote.

Miller falling into proverbial lava and a more aggressive, delusional lickspittle like Inferno replacing him actually sounds more likely than him just keeping his job for four years.

Jake is both Trump and RFK. A bullet grazed his head leading to him getting a worm in his brain. Marco is Anthony Scaramucci.

I kind of empathize because Animorphs, Star Trek, Simpsons and Beast Wars permanently imprinted on my brain in a similar way. The difference is that I know to compartmentalize my child-brain and not trivialize adult issues by publicly saying things like Steve Miller is the Skorponok to Trump’s Megatron, regardless of how true that statement is.

Probably that sexy rabbit from zootopia. Hey guys is it okay to like her even though she’s a cop?

Keksburg

This reeks of 4chan

Even when I was a lib, it chaffed me that they changed the violent uprising/riot from the end of the book to blowing up a single empty building and taking to the streets in an unrealistically controlled, directed manner. It’s been a while, but I think the monologue even implied that the country’s government isnt even being overthrown, just reforming as a liberal democracy with this single bombing acting as a “warning” towards them.

It reminded me of the V for Vendetta movie where they bent the universe on a way that’s didn’t make sense so they could make it about bush doing 9/11

If he’d just thrown in a “now beat it, buster” there’d be no recovery

A Thiel/Vance vs Musk power struggle over who can wield more influence over the puddle of tapioca that is Trump’s mind is a possibility I had not considered, but it is extremely stupid and so will probably happen.