Sununu was probably fudging by referring to the earliest age you can start social security, 62. You take a permanent hit on monthly benefits if you retire early though. He probably knows that too, so he’s a fucking liar. You want to make adjustments, fine. How about removing the income cap on payroll taxes? But more fundamentally, what do social security benefits have to do with the national debt?
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Sweet mother of Christ that video is an hour long
Sununu somewhat surprisingly just took himself out the NH Senate race, where he was the clear favorite to be the Republican nominee, and was probably even money to win.
He said it’s because congress doesn’t have the balls to balance the budget and personal/family reasons. Any guess what his real reason is?
I haven’t live in NH for 3 years, so I have no idea what the scuttlebutt is.
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His comments came just one day after burying Daisy and sharing a meal with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who, according to Hildebrand, never directly addressed the vaccine’s efficacy during the visit.
Worse than death?
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In fairness, he’s a really, really, really, really fucking shitty father, so he might inadvertently been right.
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His relatives that got vaccinated became WOKE which is worse than death, ldo.
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How does whomever interviewed this guy not ask him to explain how his relatives “had it worse” than his dead daughter?
Probably something about not wanting to twist the knife in a grieving parent. Maybe, I’m a sick fuck, but in this case, I say twist away.
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I think it’s just a high minded idea of “fair” journalism where you don’t ask follow up questions, you just transcribe what the person says and report it.
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These are ops to find the stupidest motherfuckers in the country, gotta be a pig butchering operation
https://x.com/NickKnudsenUS/status/1911873512052342994
Here’s that new fight-fire-with-fire edginess some of you have been calling for.
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Fascism isn’t coming, it’s here. It’s just a question of whether and how long we will tolerate it.
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When liberalism was firmly entrenched, its discontents could treat authoritarian ideas as interesting avant-garde provocations. Authoritarianism in power, however, was always going to be crude and stupid.
Trump’s tariffs have pushed some to the breaking point because they reveal the immediate material cost of that stupidity. The decadent cynics of the new right could dismiss Trump’s lies about the 2020 election as mere hyperbole. It’s harder to be sanguine about a collapse in one’s own net worth and economic prospects. “It kind of made the consequences seem real,” Hanania said of the trade war.
Well before the tariffs, Kaschuta, who trained as an economist, was moving away from the movement that once thrilled her. She recently appeared on the podcast of another dissident from the dissident right, the onetime conservative influencer Pedro Gonzalez, where they discussed their mutual disillusionment.
The mother of young children, Kaschuta described internalizing tradwife ideas about women’s primacy in the home. When she tried to take on all the domestic labor in her own family, it nearly broke her. She started to realize that while the new right’s racism and misogyny were often delivered with an ironic smirk, it was no joke. she said. As a woman, she said, “you’d have to lean back and just accept that people will belittle you.”
For all her mounting disgust, however, the tariffs seemed to push her over the edge. When she looks back on the milieu she was once a part of, she said, she sees no solid ideas for a post-liberal society — it was all just aesthetics, resentments and vibes. “And now the vibes have knocked into reality,” she said. “And it is so jarring to see that none of the vibes stand up to scrutiny. None of the vibes actually fit onto the 21st century. None of the vibes, if implemented, would lead to anything but immiseration and war.”
The Vibe Shifts Against the Right https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/opinion/dissident-right-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1._04.MOEU.mlOwn9sSWUZl&smid=nytcore-android-share
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The Hawk Tuah at the end was a nice touch lol
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Shoutout to everyone who cheered when the don’t taze me bro guy got tazed.
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