I just want you to know, I’m downvoting you for your thorns, not your opinion.

I feel like that’s kind of the core of the birth rate panics across the whole age spectrum by the billionaires. None of these fuckers think 20 years in advance to care about a smaller future workforce, but what a low birthdate impacts immediately is the financial solvency of those potential childrearing parents. Fewer and later births means one fewer pressure they can use to exploit workers.

Why the fuck would anyone care about that?

People who compare Biden to Clinton and Harris and see gender as the difference are missing the much more obvious difference in that Trump was the (chaotic) status quo. Every election except for Obama 2 has been a “this sucks, do something else”. Biden won, because he was something else, but he didn’t do nearly as well as he should have and he was cruising for a loss in 2024 even before his brain leaked live on stage.

And while that would point toward better odds for an uninspiring moderate, I do expect we’ll be in danger of vote suppression and manipulation and can’t trust simple “change” to push literally anyone over the finish line.

I think there are a large percentage of those people. I think they’re all MAGA though. There’s close to zero cost from anyone that would vote for Democrats though.

Charisma and policy are the two tent poles. Put someone up who has the charisma to navigate gotcha questions and policy that makes people think their lives will improve if they’re elected. Oh, and don’t do absolutely repugnant things like support genocide.

Identity is a flavoring at most. We know that because Barrack Hussein Obama was the best performing Democratic candidate in decades.

Polling published by Pew that was conducted last year similarly puts the number at 41% (including those who self-identify as “Lean Democrat”, “No Lean/Refused”, “Lean Republican”), while Gallup data puts the percentage of Americans who identify as Republican-leaning independents, non-leaning independents and Democratic-leaning independents at 45%, which the company said was a “new high”.

Bernie Sanders is a “Democratic-leaning independent”. “Independent” is not a synonym for “centrist”.

Yeah. Mackenzie Bezos inherited her fat stacks and she’s been dropping like a stone on the wealth rankings. Inherent in the state of being a billionaire is having more money than you could ever need and not using it to help others.

Reprieve found that only 23 of those killed had links to terror organisations.

There was a link. They were killed by one.

Press photography does not need to be flattering. It can also be framed to tell a story.

If it “works” it’ll be in being applied selectively. They can not apply it in red zip codes and apply it in blue ones, aided by whatever voter database Republicans build. Say some sort of grandfather clause where certain types of existing voters (like those whose grandfathers were all voters) didn’t need to reapply.

If anything, the more he leans on them the less they do his bidding. They’re all part of the same fascist project, but some of them want to do it the old way where they pretend to be serious people doing a job. Their words often end up as legal nonsense, but they’ve gone through the motions and formatted it as if they were professional. Trump showing up to stare them down is an insult to their pride.

One of the sources, who claims Banks tried to invite him along on one of these trips, told the Examiner, “I don’t know how he became the chief of the Border Patrol with his character. He’s going to third-world countries to take advantage of poor f------ women, which disgusts the hell out of me.”

This guy is so close to getting it.

Making matters more complicated, a fourth candidate, Cindy Burbank, filed to run at the last minute as a Democrat when she saw that Forbes was running. She said her goal is to beat him in the primary and then drop out and support Osborn in the general election, a move that could get her disqualified if the state’s Republican government believes she isn’t running in good faith.

This is the sort of thing you’d read in story satirizing politics. Guy enters primary fraudulently in order to receive votes from people so uninformed they don’t know who the candidates for the highest office are, woman joins to beat him with a clear statement of intentions in accordance with the goals of the party, and a politician from the opposing party will block the counter and not the actual fraudster.

Oops, you’re correct!

He desperately wants to be the Obama redux who shows he’s the bigger man by just forgiving all the crimes of his opponents. He dreams of an America where a black Muslim immigrant can share a Pepsi with the tatted up ICE agent in army surplus sent to deport his family.

That’s what it is. The A-Bomb or Atom Bomb was the type of nuclear weapon dropped on Japan. It’s a fusion weapon rather than the later fission weapons called H-Bombs.

Yeah, these are my supposedly the most political people around and yet few feel a compilation to join a flagship gathering of people from their party. There were a couple electeds at the last one that I only found out about after the fact. But only a couple in a very blue area.

Large protest gatherings are a demonstration that there are enough people out there who are also pissed off that a general strike could be feasible. They don’t make it happen, there’s still further steps, but you don’t get to the general strike in a country with so few politically inclined unions without the protests paving the way.

IIRC, there is no way to recall senators or representatives. Their election is specified in the Constitution and there’s no allowance for recall so even if states wanted to they couldn’t.

There were passengers in the car too! If this wasn’t in a legit paper I’d assume this was either madlibs or really bad AI.

The passengers flagged down a cop, so I assume they felt like they had a pretty solid explanation of how a quadruple amputee shot a guy, because otherwise they’re the number one suspects.