Fuck this “we need to cater to moderate and swing voters” bullshit. It didn’t work in 2016 and it didn’t work in 2024. You could argue that it maybe worked in 2020, but I would say there were other, more important factors driving turnout then (namely the dumpster fire that was the first trump administration).

Catering to moderate and swing voters is how we ended up in this fucking mess in the first place and the sooner that Democrats focus on being an actual opposition party instead of cannibalizing disaffected Republicans they might actually get some traction. Unfortunately I doubt they will because they’re as bought and paid for as the Republicans are.

Both the Democrats and Republicans need to go as greater political parties. All the capitalist ghouls need to go.

Isn’t this EXACTLY what that orange windbag was saying other countries do to the US? It’s always projection with these assholes.

Shooting fascists could cut down the amount of fascism in the US.

Ok, but an apple, banana, watermelon, and kiwi sandwich actually sounds really good though.

Fuck you, Bitch McConnell. The Russians already have a stooge in the White House and you’re to blame for this whole fucking mess existing in the first place. Go rot in hell with Reagan you fucking asshole.

I hope Greenlanders chase him away like Vermonters did. Let him know he can’t go anywhere without people making it known how much they don’t want a little sycophantic dweeb like him around.

My favorite group, Rose City Band, put out a new record recently, Sol Y Sombra and I’ve been especially enjoying Lights on The Way and Wheels from that album. If you like something that’s psychedelic, groovy, a little funky, and a little country, I can’t recommend Rose City Band enough. Summerland and Earth Trip are also great albums.

Warning bells started going off in my head the moment that the Democrats announced that Harris was going to be the candidate after Biden dropped out, not because I thought she was an unqualified candidate but because there was no time taken to search for other candidates. Maybe it was too close to the election to take the time to go through the rigamarole of all that but I think even a cursory effort to do so would have gone a long way towards making it feel like people’s opinions actually mattered. Biden dropping out was huge (at least to me) because it felt like an acknowledgement of the voters who had consistently felt like they were held hostage for their votes because the alternative was a fascist.

It doesn’t help either that they went on to repeatedly shoot themselves in the feet while chasing moderate Republican votes, getting other prominent Democrats to chastise certain classes of voters and breeding the same voter apathy that hurt them in 2016, and their refusal to acknowledge that what’s happening in Gaza is a genocide that we shouldn’t help Israel perpetrate.

Nihilistic fruit

Jeffries won’t say anything substantive about Khalil’s abduction because doing so would contradict what I assume are his orders from his AIPAC handlers. AIPAC is Jeffries’s largest donor, to the tune of $866,425 (as reported by OpenSecrets).

The Democrats are spineless because a bunch of them are still capitalists and don’t want to mess with the status quo and disturb the money faucet that funds them. They’re just as bought and paid for as Republicans, they just try to hide it behind virtue signaling and empty words.

Zero difference. They’re both the same shade of conservative, far-right, religious fundamentalist.

I think people rightly don’t believe it because it’s apparent that the economic machine in the United States is not built for the benefit of the average worker, it’s built for the benefit of the capitalist class that’s captured the government. Republicans may be more up front about upholding the status quo, but there are plenty of corporate Democrats that will support the same status quo while chasing the social capital that comes with agitating for change that more progressive groups are pushing for.

People don’t have faith when they’re constantly sacrificed at the altar of “the economy” without seeing any of the benefits of an improving economy. For a good example, look at how the BNSF rail strikes were resolved before Christmas last year. Rail workers were striking for very reasonable things like 7 days of sick leave per year (up from literally 0, per the contract they had with BNSF) and appropriate staffing to prevent emergencies (like what happened in East Palestine, Ohio in early 2023), and what did Biden do? Biden, the guy who campaigned as one of the most pro-labor and pro-union presidents in recent history, stabbed them in the fucking back and made it illegal to strike because an unstable supply chain around Christmas spelled “economic catastrophe”. Biden would rather go to bat for a large corporation than for the workers that corporation is shamelessly exploiting.

I hope they’re considering changes to the Iron Throne sequence. It’s the only sequence in this game I didn’t have fun with. 6 turns is not enough, and the AI pathfinding in those narrow corridors leads to a lot of frustration.

I don’t think she really believes it’s an actual coup, Republicans have just been calling everything a coup since the Jan. 6th, 2021 Beer Gut Putsch, I assume to muddy the waters around that specific word and run interference for their wannabe dictator.