Obama and Biden have been the most normal presidents over the past what, twenty five, years. Bush, other than 9/11 and what followed might I guess be normal for a Republican President. His dad too. Clinton for the democrats, again normal. A fair question is why don't Republicans have a normal alternative to Trump.. how's that supposed to work?

Unitary executive theory, bringing independent congressionally created agencies under direct political influence. Because when your political views run counter to professional experience, obviously that has to go. Only the federal reserve was deemed too important to be fucked with, and God knows how long that will stand, but this SC is anything but consistent so maybe for quite some time.

The DOJ is now the presidents lawyers. Would be shocking in any other presidency.

Sweeping tariffs without congressional approval. Or just in general claiming emergency powers, to hurt people, and being repeatedly getting defeated by the Supreme Court. There's a long list just in this category.

Federalized national guard deployments against state and local wishes. Another imaginary emergency shot down by the Supreme Court, but big enough to call out.

Reimagining the 14th amendment. Simply, it does not say what it says, because I don't like it. Actual Supreme Court testimony, read the transcripts and prove me wrong.

Kicking the press out of the whitehouse and pentagon for unfavorable reporting. Should really raise some eyes in any other presidency, but it's blown out by the crazier stuff.

Executive orders targeting specific institutions over petty grievances, all waived away if they capitulate and donate to the president's pet projects.

The war on drugs is still hot, but gambling and money laundering are super cool. I think you can do stock backed crypto now, without dealer/broker registration. It's getting wild, but when law and order meets extreme deregulation, things were bound to get weird.

The weird immigration exemption for white South African immigrants, while cutting other refugee programs. Cutting legal immigration pathways in general really, then narrative has shifted from illegal immigration to just making everything harder for immigration of any form. As you put it "infinity immigrants", Republicans no longer have a reasonably law and order narrative against illegal immigration because it's morphed into immigration bad. Not knowing, looking, or caring about the actual numbers, any restriction is good because infinity is a really big made up number. That's by definition extreme, and radical.

I could keep going...

Republicans LITERALLY brought you Trump by way of their big tent experiment with like twenty crazy candidates in the 2016 primaries, and failed to stop a populist demagogue. The front runners at some points forgot the names of the umpteen whole departments of our government they wanted to cut, like five? entire Department of *somethings*, generally outcrazying each other, with Trump and his own brand of crazy. There WERE sane primary candidates in the 2016 GOP primaries, they were all washed out by the crazy. I remember 5/5/5 guy, he didn't seem too crazy, then there were you know, normal politicians, I bet you can't even name any. Guy famous for a bridge thing, another guy with a weird suntan. But MAGA won, and the cruelty was already evident. My Republican friends were already practiced at saying "pay attention to what he does not at what he says" by that point, the concern had not set in, but they were prepared.

The Democrat's big tent experiment in 2020 brought you a pair of milquetoast senators as front runners, and you got both as pres and vp. The 2016 democrat primary wasn't big tent fyi, that one was all about Hillary, you know, a milquetoast senator, lawyer, secretary of whatever, mainly famous for stuff she didn't do like supergirl into Benghazi or use the right blackberry.
Followed by the no primary 2024 election with the sitting President and then his VP, the same boring former senators, or lawyers, whatever.
You know, the candidates that were _famous_ for "I don't know what his/her policy is", controversial for taking naps and being a former prosecutor.

Look, you now know why you got modded down so hard, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt because maybe you weren't tracking politics back in 2016. The MAGAs are in power, and for a second term. Whatever you think is "as radical" as they are, it wasn't Biden or Kamala, or Hilary. Or explain how a bunch of center-left lawyer/senators are radical, because that's what's been on the ticket. The prevailing complaint has been not knowing their policies, because undecided voters basically can't read. Help me understand where you're coming from.

We can say this, but why's it such a pronounced problem NOW? It's always been your duty to be an informed voter, there's no one else to blame. It's like "we used to be able to trust the news" which to me is an admission of "we used to not use critical thinking before so why should we now". Because when the blame starts being thrown around, it all turns into why didn't somebody just tell me/them what to think.

I swear to god they were already doing that the day after the election, and we saw it here too.
The very next day, there wasn't any ownership, no back patting, it was all "the democrats ..."

Hammer that shame and ownership into their consciousness the rest of their lives.

Because the community of PlayStation hackers and game rippers definitely would never EVER brag amongst themselves on discord for example, and simply knowing something exists and where to look isn't 99% of a working exploit, which is why said hackers never ever read patch notes and change logs to discover partially unpatched vectors, and that's not at all how this hypervisor vulnerability was found to begin with.

OH WAIT!

What? Your chat doesn't get trained into a new model then made available to other users in an hour. That's not how model training works, that's not how any AI model works, and models don't just shove random shit in front of users like some Facebook stream of you might like this garbage. And that's not money, there's literally no reason to just keep you engaged. There are no ads, you're paying a subscription for CPU time, and the less you use the better for them. That's dirt fucking simple to understand.

There is no possible way your batshit theory makes any sense, that user session data leaked and was conveniently foisted in front of some other random PS5 hacker because the AI companies make money by real-time sharing information between user sessions. I'm embarrassed for you, god that is so fucking dumb.

That your session data can be used for training is right there in the ToS and in the settings screen where you can turn it off. That's not a fucking secret. It just doesn't work the insane way you think and wouldn't be worth doing so. Do you even know which models were used by everyone involved FFS, no, so you literally have a conspiracy where .. Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, whoever are sharing and exposing session data real-time. Wtf dude.

Always love how nobody wants to take credit for electing this fucking mess. Someone else made you do it.

Trumpets and Ayatollahs use each other as excuses to make the rest of the world miserable.

I wanted to say if it weren't Iran, Trump would be bashing some other boogeyman, but fucking hell, tariffs, Venezuela, immigrants, Europe, the news, Canada, Disney, everything is the enemy with you weirdos. Don't you get it?

This country is full of hypocrites that put their religion ahead of their country and everyone else living in it.

So I'm not sure how your argument holds water, like you're pulling the ladder up behind you and we won't catch the hypocrisy.

How about have your religion and respect others.. you know, the principle the country was founded on. It's in that little pocket constitution you're supposed to be carrying at all times.

You also ask indigenous peoples to be thankful for the great new country the colonists built. So... sign me up, let's get more K-pop in this bitch.

Oh that's not the way you wanted this to go huh. Well try out some intellectual consistency sometime, or either one, dumbass.

I'm going to go eat some halal tacos with rugelach for desert just to piss you off.

No.

Yah... this is a whole lot like those "IT expert builds underground bunker" stories from 1999. There are a lot of smart idiots out there.

Like saying people were to blame for the reflecting pool fuck up. Sure that was true, just not any of the people Trump or the justice department blamed, it was the installers and morons who managed the project. Yah we get it, thanks for the lying pro-tips.

We were all waiting for federal cases to be built, or some disclosures. When it became clear that simply wasn't going to happen, one year into Trump's term the Republican controlled House and Senate passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act in November 2025.

I don't know what Biden's DOJ was doing, but Congress figured out what Trump's definitely wasn't doing after more than enough time had passed. Republicans controlled the house for the 118th Congress, Biden's last two years. Try asking your congress critters why they thought 2025 was the right time to get involved.

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