My hopes were very low a few months ago, but right now, the tides are turning and I think his time may have come. If the entire party isn’t with him in lockstep, his efforts to remain as king will not succeed.

She’s swinging for the midwestern mom vote and it’s going to work, she can build a fanbase there.

Ranked choice voting is actually one of the fundamental reforms that could lead to Citizens United, and campaign finance reform even, anti-offshoring laws, all sorts of things that are currently off limits to think about even. Once a third party starts being viable in larger and larger areas, it’ll change the landscape completely.

Dems are the only party that’s supported it, they’ve been working on getting it statewide in places that can, now they’re bringing it to a national scope. And the only thing they have to gain is possibly being usurped by a third party for real. Sooo this is one of the perfect examples of the Democrats not being evil at all, actually being progressive at their core, albeit limp-wristed for the past few decades. They are not your enemy, they should be part of your tent if you want to grow it.

It really shows how delusional and untethered the national casino that is Wall Street is. They will keep partying until the boat is fully underwater.

plot twist: they are a prison

I remember in the 80s my dad having a Ducks Unlimited sticker on his truck. I asked him what it meant, and he said “conservatism is about conservation, because we all want to keep America’s natural beauty.” Compare that to today, we’re past the tipping point on so many things because they just refuse to allow the country’s rich to lose a cent to remediating our mess. In a movie, this would be an implausible timeline.

They’re shifting work that all has to do with education onto a bunch of departments that don’t do education work, which will cause massive reduplication of efforts while results are diminished. America’s public school system was once the envy of the world, when we invested in ourselves and our strong welfare state, our social democracy. It’s what put us ahead and made us the superpower we once loved, but now half of America hates and wants to tear down. Everyone benefits from strong public education, society benefits, that’s why we have a government to begin with. If you want to just be lawless, go somewhere else, that’s not America.

Weak minds enjoy authoritarianism. They like having a Strong Daddy to tell them what to do, what to believe. To them, this translates to law and order. They want the whip so everyone else gets it too.

Coolbeans

I’m still like 99% sure Trump doesn’t know what “fascist” or “socialist” mean and he thinks other leaders will understand that it’s Just Television either way. So this doesn’t really mean much one way or another to him, ideologically.

It was FBI and when it happened this summer, it was a gut punch to the queer community. I’m really glad he’s standing up in court over it.

He just got forced into signing a bill that will release salacious info on him, time for a media circus to get our attention elsewhere.

Lots of futility in this thread and I sure get that. But this time IS slightly different. Trump’s invincibility aura is gone, and the cuts are now making him bleed. The East Wing. The piggy comment. MTG flipping. Epstein files. Redistricting. Republicans are suddenly trying to put air between themselves and Trump, get MAGA to turn on Trump. The time for schadenfreude is nigh.

They know goddamn well a big contingent is willing to if they had the opportunity, so they’ve gone to great lengths to avoid such possibilities.

This should intrigue people who like a challenge idk

Yeah this halloween mask of a person is very well aware of who she’s been playing with this whole time, she just thinks now is the time to cut bait on MAGA and set herself up as a new voice.

Just like the 17th century villagers she originally terrorized did, we gotta get the incantations just right for this one to go away.

15% of Americans would tell you the earth is hollow and a race of horse people lives down there, if the question asked about it.

Unless they had rich parents, they also have mid-6-figures in debt, so things get a bit esoteric at that point. Money flows in and out very fast, and if there’s an interruption, everything can fall apart very fast. Also higher chance they have a substance use disorder and unhappy marriage. The average internist or general practitioner makes $144k a year, which is less than a lot of ICE agents now (who might actually be trying to arrest them). All in all, mixed bag, and I have friends I wish would have NEVER become doctors because it’s killing them slowly.

I was one of a small segment that used Covid not to fall down the ladder of alcohol abuse but to get sober and clean totally, and the ensuing mortgage pause saved my house, and I didn’t lose anyone - so my memories and impression of Covid is a lot rosier than some folks.

Actually during the weird week of 9/11, everyone was in a daze, and I used that to slip back into society which I had dropped out of for a year, staying in my apartment. Everyone’s in shell shock the next day, and my PTSD brain is just humming along like normal, it was like I had a superpower. I kind of have a history of using national emergencies to climb back out of holes.

Trump was worth like $6.3 billion last summer, now he’s worth less than $1b. Just something fun to think about. Hard to make and lose that much imaginary money but he did it.