America in the 2020s: Finding Incredible New Ways to Rip Off Morons
No surprise: this hat is “free,” but only if the customer is willing to pay ridiculous shipping and handling fees. And for every 100 people who make a purchase, there will be at least another 30 or 40 who buy additional products that enable them to display their hate and stupidity to their friends and neighbors.
This whole subject makes me think about one of the most repulsive facets of American society: its constant vigilance on finding new ways to fleece idiots.
Are the people who make these hats, flags, and signs actually Trump supporters? Maybe. But more probably they’re opportunists who have tripped across the latest way to extract cash from fools.
Fox News does this with incredible precision, but seriously, that level of sophistication isn’t necessary when you’re targeting the very dregs.
Here’s Athena Brattin. She’s a candidate for the school board in Pleasant Hill, Missouri.
The answer to the question raised in the meme here is clear.
Oh, that’s just the start.
The “Let’s Go Brandon” people hate the Hollywood elite.
The entire world is speculating as to which indictments against Trump are forthcoming, and in what order.
From a reader: “By normalizing and laundering DeSantis, the mainstream news media is presenting neofascism and authoritarianism, and all of the human harm such policies have already and will cause to the American people on an even greater scale, as something palatable.”
At left is an allegory I just came across. Its point, obviously, is that it’s impossible to lead a good, satisfying life when one is surrounded by suffering.
I don’t know. Why shouldn’t the votes of people in the Dakotas or Wyoming count three or four times more than ours do in California or Massachusetts?
Here’s a company that is advertising heavily to attract investors, on the basis of their claim: Eli is a different kind of electric car.
