I’m about done here, but I’ll take the bait this once. Republicans didn’t do shit until we stupidly voted them back into power. Trump was on his way to jail until millions of people who voted for Biden found some dumb ass reason not to vote for Harris. Every horrible thing the Supreme Court has done for the past 10 years would have gone the other way if the “But her emails” crowd had held their noses and voted for the admittedly horrible Hillary in 2016. If 1 percent of Florida Nader fans in 2000 had voted for Gore, we could have had someone who wrote a book about environmental issues instead of someone who got rich exploiting oil and gas. Obama wasn’t perfect of course but he did get healthcare access for millions of people who didn’t have it before and was working on other things that would have made things better until the 2010 “shellacking” swept democrats out of power and neutralized the rest of his presidency, just like what happened to the very flawed but better than republicans Bill Clinton in 1994.

I’m farther left than ANY of the democrats I’ve mentioned and it sucks we have to settle. But the things some people insist don’t matter baffles me. Truly, what would you have Senator Merkely do? Go nuclear and shut down the government to stop benefit cuts? Done. It’s not accomplishing anything either, because trump is a lawless president and the republicans in congress refuse to stop him. He just keeps paying ICE and uses the so called shut down to defund things he doesn’t like. This is possible because we voted republicans back into power.

The problem is always republicans. The only way to stop it is unity. Instead we splinter. Nice.

Yeah but nobody’s more exactly like everyone else than me.

You don’t know any people like me.

People: Vote Democrats out of power at all levels of government.

People: “Why won’t the Democrats do anything?”

Democrats: Do literally the only thing they can do given the people voted them out of power.

People: “Empty gesture.”

People suck.

Then nobody better tell me that protests don’t accomplish anything. Besides all the things you aren’t admitting they accomplish, getting republicans to shut up for a day is a damn miracle in itself.

Red flags caused by red hats.

here, have some boot straps.

I’m not even a little bit concerned about his health. I guess that could be taken one of two different ways. I meant for the mean way.

Ha ha if you believe this is about crime then you probably believed DOGE was about saving you money. 🤣

Martin Feldstein? He’s been dead since 2019. How did he get mixed up in this?

Krugman was a staffer on the Council of Economic Advisers during Reagan, yeah. He crunched numbers; he didn’t set policy. He also has a pretty solid 40 year track record of very much not being a Reaganite. He’s consistently called for higher marginal taxes, a stronger social safety net, universal healthcare, adequate funding for the sciences and education, and more.

He’s also an authority on this topic, since it was his work on international trade in particular that won him the Nobel Prize. Not really sure where the hostility is coming from.

I was kind of hoping the rampant gun nuttery of Reddit would be one of the things that didn’t migrate over here. But, no such luck. So long, Lemmy. It’s been real.

If saying he looks like Elvis is damaging to him when trying to overthrow the country didn’t, that will be weird.

“Singers aren’t qualified to comment on politics” --the politics network that has Ted Nugent on like every week

For sure. I’m switching to unaffiliated so I can.

As a resident of her new district I will be profoundly relieved if my neighbors prove to be slightly less nutty than they appear. I’m sure I won’t be super-excited about whoever they come up with, but I would appreciate being spared this person. 😂

I won’t even fool myself that we could ever elect a democrat in CD4. We’ll be lucky to scrounge up a candidate at all.

There’s almost always a monitor on set, which is basically a tv. So, yah. No exceptions.

According to Florida history curriculum, she’s right.

He said they used AI to fake it. I don’t know if they did or not, but I feel like that’s going to be the new, “someone hacked my phone and posted that,” any time someone gets caught saying something dumb.

Honestly forgot he was still in it.

Oh, wow. I hadn’t put 2 and 2 together that this is John Ashcroft’s kid. Chip off the old block it appears. 😂