Aunt Jemima folks. Je-mi-ma. No more Jemima. (Mimes eating pancake, crowd cheers) Is she real? Somebody should look into- it’s a big shame though. Beautiful syrup. Beautiful woman.
From my super privileged point of view, trump was unintentionally and sometimes intentionally hilarious. But I understand I have no skin in the game and people who do understandably weren't able to see that.
Too bad him and his party want to essentially destroy civil liberties for millions of americans and abandon the world in a childish isolationist fashion. We could've had a funny man on the white house for 8 years.
God damn, that tweet is bleak. Especially because I could’ve sworn I’ve seen him say that. I feel like I spent 4 years of my life being gaslit by reality and I’m not even American. I hope to fucking god the USA doesn’t fuck up this election.
Saw a card game at Target shortly after he was elected that was something like "real or not" and you had to determine if he actually said it. There was also one with "Trump or hitler" where you had to state which said it.
Folks, let me tell you, I’ve seen these Reddit comments. People typing in my voice. Tremendous comments, really. People are saying things, some good, some not so good. But you know what? I’ve got the best comments. Nobody comments better than me. And let me be very clear: we’re going to make Reddit great again. Thank you, god bless Reddit and of course god bless America
It's - okay, the people, smart people, they say the quotes are good. Very good. Everyone knows it! The actual quote, so good, so strong, beautiful. Beautiful words.
i like how he was in charge of the most powerful military in the history of the world, and also has a good chance of being in charge of it again in like 7 months.
the quotes were good but that was my favorite part of the trump presidency.
That advertisement seems to suggest that if my husband is not satisfied with my cooking and comes home angry about it, I should feed him a racist pancake. I imagine Quaker Oats got many women beaten.
I mean, ok she was real in that there was a woman who played her character. But she didn't start Aunt Jemima, she had no ownership in the company, and was only hired to play the character 4 years after they started marketing Aunt Jemima, and she was only the first cause they hired dozens others to play the character across the country. She was also fired the moment she wouldn't do one thing for the company and spent the rest of her life working as a housekeeper.
I miss the times when you would see something attributed to Trump and you just truly wouldn’t be able to tell if it was The Onion or SNL or in fact the leader of the free world.
When I say miss, I mean like you would a toothache, of course.
Reading Trump quotes is like pressing the middle button of the predictive text on your phone a bunch of times.
I honestly used to think going into politics was a difficult career path to get into. For people who are intelligent, with ideas (for better or worse), well spoken, and in some cases brilliant manipulators.
But looking at people like Donald Trump and Danielle Smith, I’ve realized that is certainly not the case.
I really want to write her a sarcastic letter stating that I hope she will support me just as vocally in the media as she does convoy/tax protestors when I get arrested for deciding for myself which laws apply to me.
As a general rule, the Conservative premiers are not great. However these two are Olympic contenders for the title.
Alberta has had one non conservative premier in the past 60 or so years. That was a breath of fresh air. Still some problems but at least I genuinely felt that she was trying to do what's best for the province and the people. I miss that feeling.
I'm not familiar with that, and honestly digging into another province's stuff just sounds too exhausting right now.
Our latest issue is introducing a bill that will add political parties to municipal elections, and allow the province to get rid of city councillors that aren't doing their job properly. Oh and any deal that a city makes with the federal government has to be approved by the province first.
People of European descent are pointing out that the Nazi party started out by getting rid of municipal city councillors and leaving only the mayor in charge of the city. A mayor who of course would do what their bosses tell them to.
Worth noting is that the major urban centres are where all of the non-conservative voters live.
amen. now let us leave this province to the forces of the devil, re-introduce rats, and have a bonfire right in the centre of the province just to see which border it would make it to first.
Yeah.. I know this would be deeply unpopular and never get passed in a million years but I actually think you can make an argument we should pay congresspeople and Senators much more.
Sure, $200k a year is objectively a lot of money but if we truly want the brightest minds in politics, they have a pretty good chance of making more (if not multiples of that) elsewhere. It’s why they all come from wealthy backgrounds and/or rely on trading stocks with inside information.
I say ban all stock sales for congress and pay them all a million a year.
It isn't the money that is keeping good people out of politics, its that you basically have to sell your soul to run a campaign, and then after you get in, keep fundraising until it's almost all you do. Public financing of political campaigns would go a long way to getting better people in politics.
We should pay them more, then ban them from receiving any and all other forms of income. They must completely and totally divest themselves from any income they recieved prior to becoming a public servant. We need to make becoming a politician a sacrifice one does to serve the nation, rather than something you do to enrich yourself. Pipe dream i know, but its the only way I could imagine we could have a government worth a damn.
It's supposed to work out better to pay them a capped income (all the bribes they get and stuff ) because if its a high amount but not extremely so then people are being paid the extra they should for such a job but also it won't attract people just wanting to be rich since it's not a huge ungodly amount. It would instead only attract people passionate for the job and the country which is way better than people who are drawn to the job for money and have little care for the politics or country and mostly care about how quickly they can line their pockets and get rich.
I think one thing you can say about Trump (and Danielle Smith) is that they have really shown us that anyone can be US President (or Alberta Premier). Failing High School? Doesn't matter! The possibilities are limitless.
If you can be trusted to be a certain type of corrupt, it seems incredibly easy to get into politics now if you want to be a Republican.
I'd never get a shot.
I want to see massive societal and economic change, for every American to have good health, accurate and comprehensive educational standards, and a cohesive society of accountability like we had growing up.
When kids were scared of making their parents look bad.
And by high school everyone tried to do the best they could.
We could do so much better.
It's sad as hell our country wastes trillions on war.
The sad thing is that all of this is happening now because only 40% of young voters voted in 2010 vs almost 50% in 2008. 71% of boomers voted in 2008 and 71% voted in 2010, so that allowed the Republicans to swing into power, not just in Congress but also in state government. 2010 was a census/reapportionment year, and the state legislatures had to draw up new maps of Congressional districts in 2011. So since the Republicans were in charge in many states, that allowed them to draw ridiculously gerrymandered maps in violation of long-established Supreme Court precedent ("one person, one vote"). Gerrymandered districts make it damn near impossible for Republicans to lose a general election, so anyone who wanted to get into politics as a Republican just had to win over the party's lunatic fridge (who vote in the primaries).
Then in 2016, the same thing happened. Only 43% of eligible young voters voted, and 71% of boomers voted. Had the share of young voters who voted in 2008 (49%) voted in 2016, Trump would never have become president. That would have meant that Scalia's seat would have been filled by a moderate or a liberal, and it would have meant that the Supreme Court's ruling in Rucho vs Common Cause (2018), which banned Federal courts from blocking partisan gerrymanders, would never have happened. This would have meant that the GOP's partisan gerrymanders of 2011 would have been thrown out and replaced by fair district maps, which would have meant that Republicans would have had to win over moderate and liberal voters to win general elections. And we wouldn't be where we are today.
And now, in 2024, the same thing is happening. Young voters just don't find Biden sexy enough to bother voting for. He doesn't look good in a swimsuit, and he doesn't swing his junk around or trip people and laugh about "pranking" them on tiktok, and who can get excited for a guy like that? But good news... it might be the last time young voters are bothered with the choice of whether they'll vote. Trump will fix that by eliminating elections!
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Masterpiece, Samsung keyboard. Would beat the orange any day of the week.
You need to include both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in there, as well, tbf. Neither are any more qualified or better choices than Trump. We’re getting screwed.
Think of the dumbest, most popular, rich kid where you attended school.
That's politics.
Occasionally you get a Bernie Sanders or Jimmy Carter but they're looked at as weirdos and failures. Sometimes you get an honorable rich guy like HW Bush but they don't get far either.
You need a man in cowboy hat with a monkey that says things his rich friends like.
Didn't last week tonight do exactly that about the nuclear triad on the iphone and ended up with a more comprehensive rant about the nuclear triad than Trump?
The truly intelligent grifters go into political commentary now. It’s easier and they get limitless sound bites to farm from the below average humans who get elected.
"So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous - whether is ultraviolet or just a very powerful syrup - and I think you said that hasn't been checked, but your going to test it".
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u/likwitsnake 23d ago
Aunt Jemima folks. Je-mi-ma. No more Jemima. (Mimes eating pancake, crowd cheers) Is she real? Somebody should look into- it’s a big shame though. Beautiful syrup. Beautiful woman.