I have to say that while it’s a stupid idea and motivated by spite , it’s more logically consistent than the usual MAGA shitshow

A swat on the butt with a magazine is a humiliation fetish now? Holy crap, I thought I was too vanilla

Don’t forget the office vacancy rate in downtown Chicago matches his number. So someone told him there was 28% office vacancy, and someone told him there was a “Magnificent Mile” shopping district, and he conflated it to miracle mile shopping center 28% vacant because crime

By far the two largest races for my local election were nyc mayor and prop 50: all the press, all the publicity, all the talk …. And my ballot held city councillors and school board candidates who were mostly unopposed.

It’s actually unexpected: my town has had some contentious issues lately on school funding, higher density housing , bike lanes, pedestrianizing a section of our “main” street, and a war between a strong mayor and ineffective city council …. I expected to attract more candidates, more voters

At the very least, maybe there will be a few people whose echo chambers ring with “it’s the dems fault”, who will hear this and finally start to think.

Presidential elections hinge on one or two percent of voters do every little bit helps

My mind always goes toward the Fermi Filter here. Maybe I need to get off the internet for a while

Healthcare is an excellent place for democrats to hold the line, especially now when so much is lost.

Usually I blame republicans for shutdowns but now I blame republicans, and cheer on the democrats.

Ironically, on the enshittification front, it was progressives that I first noticed ….

Yes, back to the face-eating leopard party. A huge logic gap as one of the many reasons we can no longer understand each other.

• Unsatisfied with the guys not doing enough to make your life better? Burn it all down assuming you can walk through the flames unharmed.
• Don’t like being in a bad spot? Destroy all attempts to help you, with the expectation it will hurt those people more and you’ll be ok because you are one of the “good ones”.

It did.

• Spring wasn’t close to any elections so brinksmanship then would have been forgotten.
• Elections are like 6 weeks away. The may not be the biggest but they are elections and people won’t forget the shutdown.
• the big midterm elections are still a year away, but the federal budget is an annual thing. This years brinksmanship will be long forgotten by then but there’s a new “opportunity “ every year

I’m ambivalent about this. It’s really not as important as everything else, but I feel like it’s the only thing that will resonate with half the country

Yes, millions losing healthcare and an autocratic regime are the democrats fault. the shutdown will be the democrats fault. If they don’t cave, mass permanent firings are the democrats fault. Now it democrats decision whether to insist on medical rights for a marginalized population vs insist on medical rights for millions of low income people.

It’s all projection, blame, outrage, and will only end when those forms of manipulation stop working

Believe it or not, just a tactic. The “art of the deal” is only bullying or doubling down. Find something more horrible for your opponents to fight, to distract from the real battles. We need to stand firm on healthcare for millions and the rule of law, regardless whether they threaten permanent firings, regardless whether they threaten worse to marginalized people arts of our population.

I’m not saying this behavior is in any way acceptable, just that it’s trying to move the battle lines.

Holy abusive relationships, Batman! Are they really getting set to hit us and say “look what you made me do”?

Maybe hes nervous about JDs proclivities too

It’s definitely frightening how one “influencer” being killed seems to have made things worse. They not only didn’t learn from the consequences of stoking the flames of divisiveness, but keep piling on the fuel. How does it not hit them that their own actions are what is causing this crisis, and how do they not think it might have gone too far? How are they so cynically exploiting the situation without the slightest hint of awareness that “this could be me next”?

I hear diy law enforcement is now ok. Just modify the bill to let any concerned citizen file suit. Let the gestapo deal with millions of pesky lawsuits

I never paid attention to the guy in life so was surprised that this is becoming a thing, but on reading his wikipedias entry …. I’d say he deserves partial credit for political violence becoming normalized

This hits me especially hard. My little one had a medical crisis as a baby: Harvard sponsored research over a couple decades turned his condition from 70% fatal to 90% survival. My baby is alive and going to college this year because of this research. How dare they play games with this?

It’s not just that: I have a brother who’s not even that conservative but seems to sincerely believe the Gaza protests on college campuses are terrorism and Trump is justified in cutting medical research associated with those colleges

I really hate upvoting such a tragedy but this really needs more attention