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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Pressed whether his administration is following the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, which says no person “shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law,” Trump said he wasn’t sure.

    “I don’t know. It seems – it might say that, but if you’re talking about that, then we’d have to have a million or 2 million or 3 million trials,” he said. “We have thousands of people that are some murderers and some drug dealers and some of the worst people on Earth.”

    It might say that? Might? This isn’t something that is debatable you hippopotamic dung heap. That’s what it fucking says.


  • I don’t think that it’s really that strange at all.

    • The uneducated are easy to frighten and coerce. The educated can be dangerous in part because they will likely be resistant to the rest of the methods of control that you listed.
    • People instinctively trust people in authority, like a child believing their parents. Denying basic facts and reality lets the authoritarian create a new reality in the eyes of their subjects and keeps the people in blinders about what’s really happening.
    • Religions have always been used to control the masses.
    • People who are poor have few options open to them. People with lots of children will almost certainly be poor under an authoritarian regime. Such people also cannot effectively resist the authoritarian since doing so would put their family at risk. In essence, it gets people to forge their own chains.
    • Like religion, sex in general has long been used to control people. In fact, sex habits is one of the common tools religions use to control their devotees.


  • “When Elon Musk came to the White House asking me for help on all of his many subsidized projects, whether it’s electric cars that don’t drive long enough, driverless cars that crash, or rocketships to nowhere, without which subsidies he’d be worthless…

    Seems like that should be a fine place to save some money then. Trump is basically admitting here that we are cutting school lunches, medicaid, and poverty programs while at the same time we are spending billions supporting failing businesses just so Musk can keep getting richer.