We gave out risky and predatory loans to people with bad credit and now they aren’t repaying them
Shocked pikachu
Live by the DoorDash bnpl die by the DoorDash bnpl
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Pretty hard form trump to physically kneel and kiss Xi’s ass over the phone.
Fart of the deal
Gru meme
- Gain power by being a reality tv star who denigrates immigrants
- make immigrants reality tv stars
- Make immigrants popular and relatable
- make immigrants popular and relatable
The best defense against hate is familiarity. Please go forward with your stupid plan, show hardworking dedicated immigrants, tell their inspiring backstories, put them on week after week for people to root for and cheer on, then deny all but one citizenship and see how people react.
It is easy to hate an abstract caricature of an immigrant. It’s a hell of a lot harder to hate Jose, who you’ve watched struggle and succeed for the last 8 weeks only to be shipped off to CECOT because he lost the immunity challenge.
I think the Simpsons summarized this best
Marge holding up a new baby on board sticker
Look what I got. Now people will stop intentionally ramming our car.
This second puddle is MUCH DEEPER!!
Look at cameraman who appears to be standing in roughly the same depth of water.
It’s a real shame we have no way to measure the depth of water beside la how much of a beast and tank something is.
I think there is something of a concerted effort to lionize these boring jobs that used to support a family.
It is amazing how many country / blue grass songs are about coal mining.
The thing the wealthy don’t seem to understand is that what made these jobs worth identifying with was that they could support a family. People were proud to provide a good life for their loved ones.
They are hoping they can get people to identify with the jobs, be proud of them, without having to hold up their end of the bargain.
The entire world right now seems to be the wealthiest people going “can’t I have a little bit more though?”
I wonder what kind of plane Syria gave him
I get sometimes going “I’ll roll the dice”
- Me: I’d like my steak medium rare
- Government: That could expose you to some health risks because it’s not cooked well done.
- Me: Yep, I’d rather enjoy a medium rare steak and take my chances.
What the fuck was the logic on this one though?!
- RFK: I want to swim in sewage
- Government: it’s a bad idea to swim in sewage
- RFK: I LOVE SEWAGE!!!
- Government: you are a Kennedy right? You all dont have a pool?
- RFK: worm in brain need poop, poop in water, yum yum poop
Good thing we are saving so much money we can afford to hire 20,000 brown shirts.
The median annual salary for DHS personnel is $72k
That’s an annual expense of $1.4B in payroll alone. Billions of taxpayer dollars so trump can have his own little army.
Not to sound like a starry eyed idealist, but it’s both.
It sucks that it’s just a weird mandatory box, but if you don’t cheat your way through college you should better yourself in lots of ways. Learning how to independently organize tasks and time and research and challenging your preconceptions and struggling to really grasp complex ideas.
It should be all those things.
Americas relationship with our military is weird.
It’s something we actually have poured tons of resources into so it has impressive stats. You get this kind of weird split brain where you are impressed by the immense scale of what we’ve built, and horrified by the massive expense, but then kinda glad that you have the biggest stick on the playground.
As for conscription, the last time we had a draft it was deeply unpopular. There is a good sense of national pride that we have an all volunteer armed forces. I think most Americans are aware that a draft could be instituted but consider it so unlikely and think that if it really happened it would be because of a serious threat that people are mostly fine with the idea.
All men are theoretically eligible for the draft, but with no draft in a half century and with drafts only ever targeting young men, it’s something you kinda vaguely are aware of for a little bit and then you establish a life and realistically aren’t going to get drafted even if they instituted one.
Especially because there no mandatory service requirement in America, most citizens can pretty safely ignore the possibility of serving.
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I’m sure after a crisis of that magnitude we put robust safeguards in place that have only been strengthened over time.
Right? panic right?!?!