The chaos agent in me wants her to keep slinging shit at Congress

Religion is neither necessary nor sufficient to engender qualities of generosity, self-control, avoiding violence / advocating for peace, treating people well etc.

Those also aren’t the types of “beliefs” I’m talking about and you know it. I specifically mentioned magical thinking and in this context “belief” is not a reference to believing in being generous, but belief in the supernatural, god, spirits, etc … magical thinking. More to the point, believing in those, the books that espouse them, and expecting other’s around you to believe / act based on those same beliefs is my problem; doubly so when preached from my elected representatives.

Indeed we can. Because “belief” is not based on reason. Therefor it is ALL in the same basket as something I don’t want in my government. If I believed (get it!) any of them could be trusted to govern in a secular manner I might be less salty. But I have been given very little evidence that they** can.

** They = anyone who openly, loudly, repeatedly identifies themselves by their magical thinking while campaigning / governing. They are more than welcome to believe what they want so long as they keep it out of the way of deciding my way of life. I still hold a place in my heart that thinks that’s possible, but it is getting smaller every day as I watch the [religious text]-thumpers screaming louder and louder.

Yup, I 100% have a problem with Muslims in political office. Same as I have a problem with Christians, religious-Jews, Hindu’s, etc who identify by their magical thinking and uses it to govern.

I 100% have no problem with any humans in political office who use the best data available and reason to govern and elevate the human condition

Honestly a perfect job for AI. Input job description, input your full highly detailed resume, “tailor my resume to highlight knowledge skills and experience that align with the job posting” then do your final polish.

The most dangerous person is the world, is one convinced of their own righteousness.

They love to talk tough about 2A, and the three boxes of freedom, and peace thru power, right up until someone takes them up on it.

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Count this one that never voted for Trump.

D from top to bottom of the ticket

[bows] you’re too kind, I do what I can.

I won’t totally disagree. But a lot of employees will lose their jobs and an innovative competitor would leave the market. Maybe a middle ground would be like, a hostile takeover bid that also merged them with Rivian or something. Then a rename to “eXla” just to fuck with Elon :)

In an IDEAL world, Musk will be removed as CEO for both failure to perform (he’s literally not doing his job given that he’s doing all his DOGshitE) and the harm he’s bringing to the brand. No other CEO would be allowed to get away with this.

Then, in a JUST world the stock will stabilize, start to grow again, and everyone will get back on the EV train with Tesla included. While the Muskrat watches from the sidelines like the loser he is.

CAVEAT: only if he also doesn’t still own any more of the stock than he could get owning VTSAX like the rest of us.

You know, I had a gut reaction to your post, “If it’s in the law they have to honor it!”

But then I remembered what timeline we’re in. The one where congress and the courts have abdicated themselves to the Executive Branch. The one where there is nothing to stop the Republicans in congress from making promises, putting them into the budget, Trump flatly denying it (aka Impoundment), and congress and the courts not pushing back.

It can 100% happen and we have the evidence and precedent now to prove it.

“But still [he] persisted!”

Something about a leopard? I think, who knows.

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Yeah I know and I agree with that you say. My conflict is with the FAFO part of my brain. I’m not proud of it. Knowing and admitting is half the battle.

But come one, you have to taste at least a little bit of the irony; no? ;-)

Yeah my atheist brain is about to explode here with so many competing thoughts.

Exactly. His crowds weren’t small, they just couldn’t see him.

Please remember this statement when we see what exactly the Trump admin does to stop the genocide.

It is possible for two things to be true at the same time. Sure Kamala might have lost for the reasons you suggest. And it can also be true that another group is about to Find Out what Trump is going to do. Just the last few days alone are giving a lot of evidence that the Palestinian people are not going to be better off with Trump in office.

As for it not being strategic, well, that depends if you think the strategy was ONLY to win the election as opposed to trying to do what he thought best in a horrific and complex situation; and ONLY if you think there was an alternative course of action that would have actually won the election.

I’m not sure why folks are only hearing, or responding to, the coulda/woulda/shoulda side of the conversation. A side for which I haven’t really disagreed with in spirit, namely yes Biden/Harris surely knew there were electoral consequences to their actions, among other much sadder consequences, but you continue to ignore the actual topic of conversation … What the future holds.

Okay I can take a guess why [shrug] but such is life. Feel free to have one more reply, I’m done beating a dead leopard.