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    Add it to the pile of shit that should’ve ended his campaign in any reasonable timeline.

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      I don’t fucking get it. I seriously fail to see how past events have lead us to be so complacent. I just want an answer but I know we won’t ever get a good one. A single scandal used to have the power to make an official resign, how the hell have we gotten here?

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        He will make rich people richer.

        Those people control every aspect of what a large portion of the population see and hear from the moment they wake up to the moment they go to sleep.

        Never in human history has a power that immense being controlled by the greediest and most corrupt group of our population.

        It is inevitable that someone like him will be in control sooner (maybe in a couple weeks) or later. We’re at the bottom of the mountain watching a few boulders come down as the rest of the avalanche is roaring down the mountain.

        Even if he loses (unlikely) they won’t stop because stopping isn’t an option.

        Greed and Corruption. That’s all it is. There’s no other reason necessary.

        I hope that helps you understand what’s going on a bit better. You won’t like it, no rational person does, but it’s the facts.

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            To me it’s more like this:

            We all saw the brick wall coming. The psycho driving the bus refuses to turn. Now it’s too late so we’re all screaming and bracing for the impact.

            Some of us hope we survive. Some hope we don’t because survivors are going to be disfigured and crippled at best.

            Some of us are angry that half the bus was manipulated into letting the psycho drive.

            The psycho is laughing because they don’t care who they hurt and they’re having the time of their life.

            And the story is illustrated by Mo Williams, and it’s titled: ‘Dont let the Psycho drive the Bus’

            But like most childrens book; adults forgot the lessons.

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    Do funerals really cost 60k? Or what made this one so expensive? I’m not trying to defend Trump here because he’s a racist POS but that number is terrifying to me.

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      They really can. And you should know your rights. The death industry is slimy AF, about on par with timeshares. My late mother-in-law was Lisa Carlson, a pioneer of funeral rights and ethics. If you are going to be dealing with someone’s death or planning to die (and you should be prepared), it’s important stuff. You don’t want to get suckered when you are so emotionally vulnerable, on which the death industry preys. There are a lot of options which the death industry tries very hard to keep hidden from you and lobbies to remove.

      https://books.google.com/books/about/Final_Rights.html?id=-qxJEAAAQBAJ

      Also: this is the offshoot of Carlson’s funeral ethics organization https://funerals.org/

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      The murder made national headlines and there was a public memorial service. Most of us don’t have either of those

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      It was something like $9k to have my grandfather cremated and a small service for him. The funeral industry is even worse than the wedding industry at taking advantage of your time of emotional turmoil, and because even legally you’re kinda limited at what you can do with the body and you’re on a time crunch, shopping around isn’t exactly easy.

      Given that servicemember funerals can be quite elaborate, and I’m sure that number also likely includes a number of other things like death benefits paid to the families, I can totally believe that cost.

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        Guess I’ll just have to make sure to leave specific instructions to my family that I am to be thrown in the trash and to spend that money on something fun if they’re gonna spend it.

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          Absolutely! It’s something people really don’t like thinking about, but end-of-life planning is super duper important. Create and regularly update your will, ensure you have beneficiaries listed for stuff like stock accounts, and leave very clear instructions (and ideally money) aside for how to act on them. Have a lawyer look over them as well to prevent any family bullshit from going on as well.

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      I appreciate you bringing this up, but it still boggles my mind that we make any differentiation at all of someone’s worth based on where they are born.

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          Trump has talked about strong genes being the reason why some non Americans shouldn’t be allowed to enter…

          If Trump takes any more shit out of Hitlers pkaybook, I guess he’s going to invade Norway to get heavy water plants for atom bomb production

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            Didn’t he try to buy Greenland or some shit when he was president? That’s probably where we should look first.

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              I promise you he won’t go there, unless he doesn’t know that he people living there have the wrong skin color (according to him)

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        While it shouldn’t affect their worth overall, it’s entirely reasonable for citizenship and military service should affect how much a specific country is willing to spend memorializing someone

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          Citizenship and military service are a different topic than someone’s national origin or ethnicity.

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    Remember though…. Both sides are apparently the same according to some people.

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      There are a lot of racists in this country. They never went away, really… They just got shamed into (mostly) silence. Trump makes them feel brave again, because he’s just like them.

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      The morons pay taxes and have to be represented as well… It just sucks, that, apparently, it’s ~50% of the US.

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      He has said the sickest shit I’ve ever heard from a presidential candidate, yet, the reporting is easy beyond belief with Trump and media tries to reframe any Harris positive with passive language until it sounds like a problem.

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        They (media) are probably afraid that if Harris is elected, the news will become mundane and boring, unlike Trump, and their readership (and thus revenue) will drop.

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            If only it were so simple. The problem is so multifaceted, that there are probably more than two handfuls of contributors to the problem.

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          The media has been beat up for decades as too liberal. Now, simply reporting the truth will make the accusations of bias stick even harder in conservative minds.

          Pretty fucking mess we’re in, isn’t it?

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            They will make those accusation no matter what and they will stick just the same regardless. In fact, giving conservative politicians an easier go just makes it more likely for regular people to get caught up in the bullshit. Media that uses kid gloves for extreme right politicians actually does it because they are also on the right.

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      Nobody who is undecided or voting for Trump reads the Atlantic. It’s like screaming into the void.

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      It fucking sucks, but i think he is going to win. Half of this country is so fucking stupid, we deserve a horrible piece of shit for a president.

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        I especially don’t see how roe v wade doesn’t give a solid 51% against him everywhere

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        people give trump such a big platform his outreach is incomparable.

        American politics are just sports for some people and “my team” will win no matter what because the other team “the libs” will lose! I gain satisfaction from people “losing”

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    I’ve done more for the Mexicans than any other president. The Mexicans love me. When I see a Mexican I grab them by the enchiladas and they let me.

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    Remember “grab 'em by the pussy”? The crazy shit he says didn’t make any difference then either. Remember to vote.

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      That’s not even the worst of what he did. Let’s assume he was just joking about that and it was out of context

      Remember during covid when he went into public view and literally said nonsense like using light to kill covid in the human body and that they were looking at using bleach or whatever to kill it in the body, whilst his team clearly were cringing in the background

      That had to be the most awkward moment worldwide during covid (even more so than the fact that here in Australia, our right wing prime Minister, who had lots of secret portfolios didn’t order vaccines). It was literally like listening to a random druggo rambling and making stuff up.

      And here in Australia, we now have politicians mimicking him.

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    How much does it cost to bury an avaricious, racist, mendacious sociopath? Feels like there is a gag in here somewhere.

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    That photo makes him look like a serial killer wearing someone else’s face as a mask.

    I don’t usually comment on people’s looks, but this man is rotten on the inside and on the outside.

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      I come at it from a Roald Dahl perspective. If someone mainly thinks ugly thoughts, they will seem ugly no matter what they’re like, and vice-versa.

      Look at Lincoln, imagine he was a long lost twin who sold candy or whatever and suddenly you notice he’s actually an ugly dude from central casting. He makes .Willem Dafoe look normal… But the man is widely regarded handsome.

      Look at Ben Shapiro, whose conventional good looks do nothing to hide the malignant dogshit apt to emanate from him at any moment. You can tell by looking at him he’s about to talk shit.

      It’s plain that we shouldn’t value people on their looks, but if you really see someone, their worth shines through.

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    His defenders will ask, “Well… That does seem excessive, doesn’t it?” The racism will be missed or ignored, the service status will be ignored, they’ll try to approach it logically. They seriously won’t see those two items. They will latch on to what they can argue. “I’m just asking!”

    See how easy that was? Next one please.

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      No, it’s something he said when an American soldier of Mexican descent was murdered by a fellow soldier. He offered to pay for the funeral, then didn’t. This was while he was in office.

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        Heres the big problem. I’m assuming that this is some political bullshit spin job. That happens so much with him that it’s what I consider to be true until proven wrong. There’s tons of children’s stories about this. A kid lies non stop. He never learns and just lies endlessly. Then one day a serious event happens. He runs to tell the town "EVERYONE! EVERYONE! THERE IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION GOING ON! HURRY AND COME THIS WAY! "

        No one believes the kid then that bad thing actually happens. The main stream media is that kid that has been endlessly lying. Most people no longer believe them. Fox, cnn, all of them. They look like lying children now. Is this a true quote? Maybe. But no one will believe it. Without even looking into it people will assume it is a false quote. So if he said it or not will probably never actually matter.

        On this point specifically I believe this is the one where the actual family that buried that person said this quote was a lie. But they will probably just be called Mexican kkk nazis. Racist assholes.

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          of course the timing of it has to do with the fact that the election is less than 2 weeks away, but do you not remember the shit he did while in office? Every day there was a fresh scandal. Shit like this got swept under the fresh hot garbage that he spewed.

          This isn’t surprising to me at all, especially knowing how racist trump is, how he actually does refuse to pay bills and also about how he does treat fallen soldiers with nothing but disdain.

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            He did a good job last time. I’m looking forward to him not caring about getting reelected and just being a dick lol

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              he did a good job with what exactly? with the deficit? nope. with the covid response? also, nope. with the economy? no. What about with the plan he put in place to pull out of afghanistan? fuck no. He didn’t do a single good thing while in office.

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      I see you made an account just to post tankie propaganda.

      How’s that working out for you?

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    So the sister of the fallen troop spoke out and said this was a lie. So tell me this who do we believe? A made up story or actual facts from a direct family member

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      What would the family member even know about it? No one was saying Trump said it to the family’s face, although I can see why you’d assume he did.

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        The sister said the story was false. You obviously read some news and took it as facts. Good job on confirming how stupid people are nowadays

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          You say that I’m stupid, let’s assume you’re correct. Explain to me like I’m Forrest Gump how the slain woman’s sister would know that the President didn’t call her sister a “fucking Mexican” in a private meeting.

          Because from the original article, it’s clear that the family did send a bill to Trump, and never received a penny in return, and this was verified with the same family lawyer who released the sister’s statement. And no article I’ve read says the sister claims the bill was paid, a pretty damning omission. How would the reporter even know about that bill if the story was made up?

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            https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4948836-trump-meadows-guillen-funeral/

            Here ya go bud, you are served real news. This was a hit piece and you are eating up false stories like a lil girl in high school. It’s a sad state we live in where one reporter can write a story and a majority on one side makes into absolute facts. Personally I’m not voting. This is a shitshow we all are in, one hand we have a socialist that the left thinks is the best choice because Trump is the worst no matter what. She prosecuted black men for weed, she was the border chief and did nothing, she is part of the worst 4 years of all of our lives with how we live. Gas is high, my grocery bill is 4x, a dollar cheeseburger is almost 5 fucking dollars in most places etc. We literally have multiple wars that we are spending billions a year on that we have no reason to be a part of, she & Joe didn’t give AF about the 13 soldiers who died on the Afghan withdrawal or they do zero for all of us that are suffering here in this fucking country!!! Then on the other hand we have a egotistical rich dude. He did some cringe shit, he says cringe shit. As a poor kid from the Midwest that grew up on a farm and became a pretty successful business owner I just feel sadness. I wore hand me down clothes, I got picked on for being mixed race, hell I got jumped on my first day of kindergarten for being different. To this day when I’m asked what race I am, I say I’m American. Everybody else in the world looks at us as Americans but us. We are so divided and that’s exactly what the powers want us to be. If we are fighting then we can’t pay attention to what’s really going on. I’m just sad tbh. It’s literally the worst point we have ever been in as a country and it’s like we’re all at a high school party, too drunk to think clearly and everyone taking sides.

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              Ok I know you have a lot of reasons for not voting Kamala, but I just gotta push back every time you say I’m eating up false stories, because most of what you said just doesn’t support that at all.

              I think you should consider that maybe I have good reason for my beliefs. Let me spell it out:

              1. The claim is that 2 anonymous people in the room, plus notes taken at the time, include the outburst.
              2. This claim is made by Jeffrey Goldberg, a reporter with a decades long career unblemished by journalistic fraud.
              3. No one - not the family, not Meadows or anyone else associated with Trump - denies that the bill was sent to the white house, but not paid by Trump.
              4. No one has offered an alternative explanation as to why Trump did not pay the bill.

              I think those are some good reasons to believe the story. I also get how people want to believe the family on an emotional level - what happened to them sucks and they have every right to feel whatever they want about Trump. As do you. But I will stand by the fact that on a rational level, it makes far more sense to believe this actually happened as reported.

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        Their source is that the woman’s sister, who wasn’t in the room when Trump would have said it, says it isn’t true. Even though the rest of the details check out according to the lawyer who released that sister’s statement.

        So definitely false for sure!