The GOP spent 40 years building a Big Tent Coalition. Their message was simple - if you share some of our values, you’re one of us.

The Dems have spent the past 10 years building a Shrinking Tent. Their message is now simple - unless you share every single value, down to a specific level of support for each community, you’re not one of us.

And look who’s winning.

Ding ding ding

One day I looked at the Everytown for Gun Safety placard in my window and realized, this is the problem too, we need to yield some battles to not cede the war.

But that was when there was still hope for that

A lot of folks still believe someone is coming to save them. It’s fascinating. But it’s why we’re so badly fucked, yeah.

Me on drugs washing the dishes

But instead states are rushing to ban lab meat.

Purity tests are one of the biggest downfalls of the left.

Yeah but now they can capitulate to the “bullying” and let the GOP do whatever as usual.

Well maybe someone will issue a strongly worded press release.

What good is it when your party loses, or just has elections outright stolen, because they’re so busy taking the high road and congratulating each other on it.

Careful Lemmy mods will randomly ban you across multiple communities if you hurt their feelings.

You’re talking about all the megachurches in my city

Shit this is the justification they need to be angry about it. “The crooked media and the dirty liberals forced me to put a bunch of stuff in the constitution that I don’t want there,” Trump will say on Truth Social, and by the next morning, reality will reflect that the Dems had to back down on the issue and, in fact, the changes Trump made are permanent.

Everyone has been put under a normalization spell, the trauma was too intense too long. I tried explaining to another liberal my fears about this term’s version of the January 6 insurrection, he looked at me like I was crazy. People are trained to believe the ping-pong will go on forever, save and easy.

So dumb, you can just order 8,000 discs and then order another 9,000 to your neighbor and they won’t even know 🙄

A lot of people, Fox News and Truth Social people, just never saw this shit in the first place. The bubble is very strong. Now we’re doing Trump the Pedo King’s Greatest Hits as a whole new group of fans tunes in.

That is a very cool story and I like it, even if it’s got nothing to do with this at all, the things they can do now.

There has always been a theoretical fear of someone loading up a Cessna with TNT and low-flying that into the oval. When civilian GPS first came about, they had to fuzz certain locations to make this less attractive. So far no one has tried with small automated planes.

These airspaces are controlled by the Air Force tho who would probably notice and implement countermeasures.

And Collins Wept.

My friend has a slumlord next to him doing this, he’s charging $250 per application and rejecting everyone. So my friend is renting his spare room to his last tenant and thinking about suing. Fucks up the neighborhood.

Trump overheard telling Eric: “This is like losing your uncle Epstein all over again.”

Nothing lasts forever especially in today’s trend-swinging world. Just like skinny jeans eventually found their way to the back of the closet, Trump WILL wear off and people will start flipping.

I don’t know when that will occur but I am certain it will, just out of basic consumer indoctrination. Heels to flats to heels to flats.

I notice all the Trumpers who found it fun to poke me during the first term are silent now, as if they don’t want the subject brought up anymore.