If he dies in office, we get President Vance, which could be a worse prospect for democracy than Trump.

Musk: violates a federal law by giving away a cool million every day until election day

Feds: “let’s fine that guy $10,000, that seems like a pretty serious amount for a fine”

“The Democrats are using their power to push an alarmist and false narrative that there is a problem accessing contraception,” said Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy, the top Republican on the Senate Health, Labor, Education and Pensions Committee.

If he really meant this, there’d be no problem passing a bill to protect contraception access. If there’s already no problem getting it, and you’re not intending to prevent people from getting it, a bill protecting access is at worst window dressing and harms no one.

I can only conclude they are intending to find further ways to prevent people from getting contraception, and don’t want this bill to get in their way.

A lot of his base admires precisely those qualities you mentioned. They dig the idea of someone who appeals to their shared prejudices and wields power capriciously and cruelly. Either because they think he will wield that power on their behalf, or because they wish they could wield that kind of power themselves and are enjoying it vicariously by watching him do it.

Gas I do not use so I do not care.

I don’t own a car and don’t use gas either. But my food, clothes, toiletries, mail, and lots of other things I need all probably required gas in order to get to me. If you live in a city, especially a US city, chances are high that you rely on gasoline a great deal just to get food, even if it’s only indirectly.

I feel like, if the USSR is to blame for modern Russia, then Tsarist Russia shares some of the blame as well

There are way more evangelicals supporting Israel than there are Israeli-Americans, so I’d say mainly evangelicals. And that difference only gets bigger if you start including other conservative Christian groups.

Beehaw definitely reminds me of the couple of vBulletin forums I used to post on back in the day. Smaller scale, mild pace, and I start to recognize people after sticking around a while. Much more of a community feel. I really missed that.

I can’t believe they would expel the only Navy SEAL to ever walk on the moon and win the World Cup twice! This is an outrage!

Personally I hadn’t heard the red-to-black story debunked at all until reading this thread, so I appreciate the thorough clarification.

You’re not kidding!

https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-conflict/

Musical chairs, Nazi shit edition

The problem is “for the moment to preserve American democracy and freedom” winds up being every election, unless a genuine leftward push is made at some point down the line.

If that leftward push never happens, every election is a choice between temporarily halting fascism, and allowing fascism to metastasize.

Fun fact if you’re not aware: many American police recieved training from Israeli police and military.

https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2022/03/17/revealed-adl-us-israel-police-exchanges/

https://www.amnestyusa.org/updates/with-whom-are-many-u-s-police-departments-training-with-a-chronic-human-rights-violator-israel/

“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain”

This is what they mean by all the “real American” rhetoric. It’s a rhetorical shortcut to ignore the increasing popularity of economic and social policies they don’t like and declare the ones they do like are the only ones that count.

Sounds like Threads has lost the thread…

I’ll see myself out.

I used a dumbphone up until 2017. I actually still have it, it’s just not hooked up to service anymore. I can still turn it on and play Galaga or Final Fantasy I and II though!

I never pass up an opportunity to link this article: CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them?

“Woke is when I hate something, and the more I hate it, the more woke it is”