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DZero

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USA will end like the soviet union divided and trying to concentrate into colonies... failing misserably.
 

nakedfrog

No Lifer
Apr 3, 2001
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No 3rd term, the constitution forbids it. It would need an amendment that's impossible to pass. Not only that, the withering lout will be around 82 and would term out at 86. His lackeys lack credibility. Everybody knows that. He's backed lots of people who lost, he's really good at picking shithead-losers.
Unfortunately the Constitution isn't magic, and is dependent on humans to apply the words contained therein. Simply being forbidden doesn't stop them from doing it unless someone stops them from doing it.
 

DZero

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Unfortunately the Constitution isn't magic, and is dependent on humans to apply the words contained therein. Simply being forbidden doesn't stop them from doing it unless someone stops them from doing it.
If Trump wants, can get rid of the Constitution with a new one, the problem? opposition and that leads into the failure of the country
 

K1052

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Aug 21, 2003
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No 3rd term, the constitution forbids it. It would need an amendment that's impossible to pass. Not only that, the withering lout will be around 82 and would term out at 86. His lackeys lack credibility. Everybody knows that. He's backed lots of people who lost, he's really good at picking shithead-losers.

SCOTUS said it’s fine already.
 

MrSquished

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Jan 14, 2013
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So the insults to Canada are paying off, Canadians are all riled up and pissed at America, and rightfully so. Boycotts are being inspired. One way is on travel. Even if just 10% of Canadian tourism travel was affected, that would be just over 2 billion dollars in lost revenue and the loss of at least 10K jobs. To all the MAGA owned businesses and employees that will be affected by this, couldn't be happier for you shitty fuckers. To all the non MAGA business owners and employees - you have our empathy and please let us know who you are, so we can book travel only to your establishments.

 
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“Media” only reaches about 17.5-24 million people during prime time. That’s roughly 720 million views a month versus 1.7 billion views a month for YouTube’s top 10 creators. We aren’t even talking about social media yet. It’s hard to blame the media when barely anyone is watching it.
Yes, it doesn't get as many direct views, but the headlines and topics do filter to social media and whatnot. The media can raise and hammer the salience of a particular issue and give it appropriate framing if they are willing.
 

mikeymikec

Lifer
May 19, 2011
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No 3rd term, the constitution forbids it. It would need an amendment that's impossible to pass.
Law and order is only a concept that carries any meaning while there are principled people with power, influence and most importantly willingness to defend it.


Not only that, the withering lout will be around 82 and would term out at 86. His lackeys lack credibility. Everybody knows that. He's backed lots of people who lost, he's really good at picking shithead-losers.

Trump supporters already believe any shit they get served up already, and technology has reached a point where a Presidential deepfake can be presented for as long as the GQP want to keep him "alive" for. Maybe at some point it won't matter who they present as long as that person keeps preaching the gospel of Trump. Joe Rogan perhaps, for example.

The only X-factors I can think of are if Trump's "celebrity" status is relevant any more and whether it has an expiration date (the last time he was on TV was apparently 2015, 10 years ago), and whether Elon Musk is too unstable an element to keep around. But then I thought that Trump was too unstable an element and yet here we are.

I really hoped that the US electorate would annihilate the GQP in the 2024 election and the US could start a slow process of healing with the Dems splitting into two opposing parties, but the GQP's destruction of government departments and embrace of complete corruption (e.g. allowing Musk full access to basically everything) is going to leave scars that - assuming that there even are meaningful elections in the foreseeable future - even say four consecutive terms of a truly progressive government are unlikely to be able to heal while keeping the country on an even keel.

It's faster to break stuff than fix stuff:
IMO the US at best is starting a cycle whereby the GQP slashes and burns everything it touches, the electorate decides that in 2028 that it doesn't like the GQP anymore, the Dems half-heartedly fix stuff, the electorate forgets about what two Trump administrations have done and decides that it doesn't like the price of something else by then so it votes the GQP in again, rinse and repeat until the US ceases to be a developed country.

Revolution is potential way out of this cycle, but keeping people from picking up the pitchforks is a trick that capitalism has been playing for a *long* time now, and revolution is a game that starts with the concept that "anything is better than this" which by no means guarantees that outcome.
 
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SteveGrabowski

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No 3rd term, the constitution forbids it. It would need an amendment that's impossible to pass. Not only that, the withering lout will be around 82 and would term out at 86. His lackeys lack credibility. Everybody knows that. He's backed lots of people who lost, he's really good at picking shithead-losers.
You're mad, the constitution died weeks ago.
 
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trenchfoot

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Aug 5, 2000
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It's faster to break stuff than fix stuff:
IMO the US at best is starting a cycle whereby the GQP slashes and burns everything it touches, the electorate decides that in 2028 that it doesn't like the GQP anymore, the Dems half-heartedly fix stuff, the electorate forgets about what two Trump administrations have done and decides that it doesn't like the price of something else by then so it votes the GQP in again, rinse and repeat until the US ceases to be a developed country.

I've noticed that cycle of Democrats fixing things only to have the Republicans exploit it for fun and profit over and over again going back many decades to the time when I became old and wise enough to realize that the war on the middle class by the aristocrat class was real and ongoing.

Of course, it's the American voter's short attention span and even shorter memory that perpetuates that cycle. Add to that how easy it is to fill their minds with fake scary terrible things that the liberals are doing to the country and oh how convenient it is that just by coincidence it's the Republican party who's spreading these fake horror stories that can fix it all up. And it works because these same voters are a lazy bunch, not wanting to take the time to dig around for the truth and facts that would set them free from the lies and disinformation that the Republican party is filling their heads with.
 
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mikeymikec

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Of course, it's the American voter's short attention span and even shorter memory that perpetuates that cycle. Add to that how easy it is to fill their minds with fake scary terrible things that the liberals are doing to the country and oh how convenient it is that just by coincidence it's the Republican party who's spreading these fake horror stories that can fix it all up. And it works because these same voters are a lazy bunch, not wanting to take the time to dig around for the truth and facts that would set them free from the lies and disinformation that the Republican party is filling their heads with.
I'm not sure whether memory is really the biggest issue here, as you say it's propaganda.

Let's say that the electorate has a short memory (it's certainly possible, people have a lot more going on in their lives in general to inherently keep a good track of political events (I use the word inherently to mean that the average person does not go out of their way to achieve this). However, in a society where news sources largely tell the truth and do not attempt to obscure it in any way, people would be reminded of how past events and current events link up, therefore IMO the electorate having a short memory isn't necessarily a serious problem.

The problem we're seeing is that a "democracy" is asking the electorate to do is to a part of the journalist's job themselves, so learn to sift through information to separate the chaff from the wheat. This is a *skill*, and it's not taught in mandatory education. A portion of the electorate believe that the sifting has already been done when it hasn't (lies by omission or otherwise). Some people also want to believe the propaganda because it appeals to their prejudices.
 

Muse

Lifer
Jul 11, 2001
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You're mad, the constitution died weeks ago.
AFAIK it was attacked, it didn't die. The courts are in play here. The courts deal with the constitution and precedent, yes, all the way up to the Supremes. Constitutional law is a thing. Obama was expert in it. It exists. We'll see.
 

Indus

Lifer
May 11, 2002
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AFAIK it was attacked, it didn't die. The courts are in play here. The courts deal with the constitution and precedent, yes, all the way up to the Supremes. Constitutional law is a thing. Obama was expert in it. It exists. We'll see.

Who's going to enforce it?

Trump's Pratorians?
Trump's Congress and Senators?
International Peace Keeping Force?

Faith can move mountains but it can't bring you out of this mess.
 

mikeymikec

Lifer
May 19, 2011
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AFAIK it was attacked

I disagree with your general argument but I especially disagree with your use of the past tense here. As long as Trump is in power (and leaves the role in a normal manner), the Constitution has been undermined.
 

SteveGrabowski

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AFAIK it was attacked, it didn't die. The courts are in play here. The courts deal with the constitution and precedent, yes, all the way up to the Supremes. Constitutional law is a thing. Obama was expert in it. It exists. We'll see.
The clerics of the supreme court have shown time and again they'll Calvinball the law into backing this right wing coup.
 
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Moonbeam

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Not sure why something would be experienced as delicious and tastes that was clearly inevitable. There’s no free lunch and ignorance of the laws of of human psychology doesn’t allow one to escape them. People have been conditioned to hate themselves and trying to escape that fact by projecting the unconscious memories on that conditioning by projecting onto others they are the cause of your misery by voting to screw them via electing a psychopath like Trump, will inevitably redound to one’s own further misery.

Those who sleep on the road lose their hats or their heads. A saying
 

hal2kilo

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Feb 24, 2009
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Unfortunately the Constitution isn't magic, and is dependent on humans to apply the words contained therein. Simply being forbidden doesn't stop them from doing it unless someone stops them from doing it.
SCOTUS pretty much kicked the legs out of that proposition.
 
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Muse

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Jul 11, 2001
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I'm not hungry to hear/read tales by Trump voters of how they're suffering post-election. I want to hear the stories of and by the pawn pushers, the Trump loyalists whose careers are careening into oblivion because they surrendered their agency by parroting the lies of stolen election, etc.
 
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