This is true, but it’s also part of the power play - “what if I exchange them and he notices they’re not the size he bought, will that be enough for him to replace me”.

Trump apparently gives people shoes in the size he THINKS they are, and throws a tantrum if they’re not wearing them. Gifts in this style are a common narcissist power play.

Don’t forget their old boogeyman Mr Rogers.

Potential lame duck. There’s leaks that say his office has been accelerating attempts to try and effectively rule by decree via executive order, bypassing Congress entirely.

Mostly the relationship dynamic. There’s often also a racial component - a LOT of tradwife stuff is also white supremacist under the onion skin.

I was gonna say, isn’t this just the “free market” at work? Consumers chose the superior product and the inferior products decided to whine and bitch rather than put time into making their product worth a consumer’s money, attention, and time.

Looks outside at everything

Yeah, independent lich territory also works fine.

As an Ohioan, I’m OK with giving our territory over to Pennsylvania.

You leave Healslimes out of this.

While that’s partially true, the DOJ has a LOT of leverage, especially with how closely this version is tied to the executive branch. It wouldn’t take much to simply lean on a state legislature or even a local one and say “hey you either cut our guy loose or bad things might happen.”

Welcome to the Mafia oligarchy.

Nah, it would just be a liberal conspiracy to crack the arch in just such a way that it splats him. They’re a cult, cults can always find a way to posthumously martyr their dead.

Nationalist Christian no-loads-refused GoFundMe. They’ve hosted a bunch of Neonazi defense funds, and they’re pretty much where you go when your fund gets thrown off of GoFundMe or wherever for violating their TOS.

My local ads have reverted to the shaming tactic - “your vote is private, but anyone can look up whether you voted or not”. From my dad who’s been working the early voting location for my county, it sure sounds like they’ve had one hell of a turnout.

Yeah, this sounds like something you might want to see a doctor about.

I dunno, can we do those little parasite guys from TNG “Conspiracy” instead? At this point, I’m kinda willing to listen to their plan.

Don’t care, the government shouldn’t be in the business of executions. You can always, to a lesser or greater extent, make things right with unlawful detention and charging an innocent person. You can’t un-kill a person if you get things wrong.

See, and even this could lead into a fantastic lesson about how fascism is really seductive in these vague terms, especially to help clean up a lot of the questions of “well why didn’t people fight back” that teens have when learning about Italy and Germany pre-WWII.