You forget that Vance is up next if Trump goes, and despite having the charisma of a tub of melted icecream, he’s got a whole panoply of yes-men who want nothing more than to see Vance’s version of a white, Christian America come true.

Bingo. The main body of the cult truly bought into the idea that Trump is either God’s handpicked man, a prophet, or Jesus Christ Himself. Morality doesn’t apply to the Selected.

Because DOGE is still running on Elon Musk’s strategy of “move fast, break things, and don’t fix anything until shit’s on fire”. People won’t be dying in concentration camps because of DOGE, they’ll just be homeless and probably half-dead of starvation (because of the repeal of the PFDA).

The larger part will eat it happily.

Sounds an awful lot like the old HUAC trials. “We’ll grant you clemency, all you gotta do is give us the names of your best friends that are communists. We just wanna talk to them.”

Nah, this is more stochastic violence. “Will nobody rid me of this turbulent college president” vibes.

I would say “shit we got President Kingpin”, but Wilson Fisk arguably would be good at things.

Except Collective Shout is Australian (which is unsurprising, considering that AUS is also a hotbed of hate groups).

The general difference, though unspoken, is that the kids being “trafficked” in their heads are white middle class suburban kids. A lot of conspiracy simply leads back to antisemitism, white supremacy, or both.

This is exactly it. The owner class thinks everyone below them is dumb as fucking rocks. They think they’re the smart ones for extracting value from people, even if they’re not terribly good at actually doing things like making money or doing business or anything like that.

Not half as many as the administration wants you to think, that’s why they’ve been snatching pretty much any immigrants they think they can get away with. The media messaging is trying to conflate immigration with undocumented immigration very deliberately.

Not just that, but VISIBILITY. Trump absolutely fucking LOVES seeing shit he’s done or doing in the mainstream media. Nobody from Fox or NewsMax is gonna pay attention to Louisville. LA is sexier because it’s their chosen symbol to represent the GOP’s enemy.

Yup. It’s not that soft tissue DOESN’T fossilize, it’s just that the conditions to do so are much rarer, and soft tissue is obviously much more susceptible to degradation before fossilization.

Yeah, this has been on my mind as well ever since ICE during the first Trump admin said “well we don’t have a way to make sure these kids wind back up with their families if they’re deported”. Even if the intended purpose isn’t trafficking kids into sex, it’s an incredibly target-rich environment for it - and when the DHS head says “yeah we don’t actually keep too much track on who these kids were with or where they’re actually supposed to be”, well…

My local library does first-come passes for local parks and museums and the zoo. They’re only valid certain days of the week, but it’s great for kids who might otherwise just not have access to those because of money.

34k-ish sworn members. They have more boots and better arms than a lot of small nations.

Remember kids, if you see someone shoplifting food/clothes/necessities, no you fucking didn’t.

There’s different levels of literacy as well. If we take things like math literacy and functional literacy into account (things like doing your taxes or filling out government forms), something like 60% of the adult population is functionally illiterate (below a third grade level) in at least one area.

I still wish they would’ve done the Spiders, but as I understood it, even setting aside the “literally worst record in pro baseball” thing, there was some weird licensing shit.

Every one of these is always “Parent’s Rights Act” and the text is like “murdering your gay/trans 10-year-old is now totally legal”.