A new report from Rolling Stone claims that President-elect Donald Trump is “keeping tabs” on major corporations that have not yet forked out big bucks for his inauguration fund.

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Last time he tried to hide it. This time he is being completely open about the fact that he is for sale because he believes that he is untouchable.

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He doesn’t have to believe he is untouchable, he’s been proven untouchable over and over again, no matter what he did

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Yup. In the quest to not to appear politically biased the DOJ allowed US democracy to slip away.

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the wheat to not ajar

that’s some interesting autocorrect fail, I hope!

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“US Democracy” is bipartisan genocide support. It’s not great loss

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18 points

This comment works for basically aany Trump headline now.

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Apparently!

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He’s untouchable because American voters don’t care about any of this.

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They will.

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I think it’s beyond the point where

  • caring will make a difference

  • voters will realize that 1/3 of them are wrong

But I do hope to be proved wrong on this.

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A nationalized shake-down is somehow being couched as inauguration donations.

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Americans explicitly voted for corruption. There was no confusion on the matter. He has a rap sheet that spans an entire lifetime proving he’s corrupt. And the majority of voting Americans chose him anyway.

There should be no shock factor here. America wanted this. Americans are stupid.

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The majority of votes were for not Trump.

More people of voting age didn’t vote at all than voted for any one candidate.

The system is broken but nobody wants to fix it

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9 points

My take is anyone who can vote but doesn’t is implicitly throwing their support behind whoever eventually wins. On 2024-11-05, the majority of Americans chose to not be taken seriously by the rest of the world.

I’m not an American.

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As an American, non-voters can suck a butt. They’re effectively giving their proxy vote to everyone else, so they have no right to complain or engage in discussion.

I’m sorry for you other Earthicans who have to share the ball with my country. We’re stupid because we let ourselves be deregulated, gerrymandered, propagandized, and lied to, and can’t collectively ask for it to stop.

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The majority of votes were for not Trump.

The majority of votes for a candidate that could actually win were for Donald Trump.

More people of voting age didn’t vote at all than voted for any one candidate.

I specifically said the majority of VOTING Americans voted for Trump. Which is true, if you’re taking into account the only two candidates that mattered.

If you were of voting age and you didn’t vote, you don’t matter. If you were of voting age and voted 3rd party…well, I have an opinion of you that I won’t share here. But suffice to say, if you voted 3rd party, you may not have technically voted for Trump, but you still made his presidency happen.

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But have you considered both sides bad? My political sensibilities are far more finely tuned than yours, which allows me to see that the Democrats are not an alternative to fascism, but are in fact complicit in it. This is everyone’s fault but mine!!!

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Sorry which one was the no-corruption candidate again?

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You’re right, Harris would have done the same thing.

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But Americans weren’t voting for the same thing

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So it’s a protection racket.

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It’s all he’s ever known.

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Ok, so, I’m starting to be convinced that Trump does infact know the history of the Nazi rise to power, and instead of saying “maybe we shouldn’t do that” he’s thinking “I can do it better.”

We need to get him significantly more McDonald’s.

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2 points

The guy who slept with Mein Kampf at the bedside?

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It was not Mein Kampf. It was a book of Hitler speeches.

Even more damning, some said they had never seen a book in his penthouse. Except that one.

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infact

It’s okay to leave the space in there when you’re going for English.

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No

English isn’t a language it’s a mistake

My autocorrect did it too. These days I’m too lazy to fight it. I figure it knows better than me anyway, only the past 8 generations of my family have been in the country.

Plus I didn’t major it it I did something practical with my life. Fuck the only langage I can speak

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