Unfortunately, stupid breeds too fast for nature to fix it.

Pressing x to doubt

I don’t understand how Newsom can’t just order the CA national guard to not follow unlawfully given orders.

I’m not a lawyer but the statute in the Constitution that is written into the executive order as the authorization for it literally says the national guard are under control of the state Governor.

Why can’t Newsom give the guard orders and tell Trump to go fuck himself and see what happens? I guess at that point you’ll have conflicting orders from federal and state but, in theory, the national guard are under command of the state Governor and he’s their highest authority. So they should follow Newsom’s orders.

Like I said IANAL so I’m sure I’m missing something but for fuck sake this is outrageous. We’re rounding people up for not having a paper, they’re not even hardened criminals. If this was hardcore enforcement of actual dangerous people that would be one thing. These are just innocent undocumented migrants trying to live the their lives same as the rest of us.

This administration is really trying to fuck us all but in particular some of Trump’s most ardent supporters,

Same thing that’s been going on for millenia now. Humans being humans, look around the globe and through history. This is not new and we are not special.

Sucks though.

And here we see a sighting of one nature’s truly disgusting creatures.

The internet troll.

Right enjoy the MAGA boot leather.

Bro, I get it, but I’m a pragmatist more than an idealist. I hate our electoral system with a fiery passion too. I’m just operating in reality and trying to get the least bad outcome we can with what we have.

You can draw a line from the Tories and Whigs at the USA’s founding to the modern day Republican and Democrat parties.

They didn’t just spring from the ether, they were birthed from internal party politics. Why do you think the most progressive people we have in our Congress are Democrats or, in cases like the incredibly rare independent like Bernie, are working with the Dems?

It’s not a fluke. Being surprised that sitting on your hands and pouting that the party won’t pay attention to a person who won’t do anything to help them win is crazy.

What’s your pitch? “hey as someone who will do literally nothing to improve your odds of being elected you should pay attention to me!”. No, it doesn’t work like that.

LMAO ok so what are you gonna do light your vote on fire and help the Republicans? Nice plan.

So I remember a political party behaving like one? Yeah, I do.

The party spends money on candidates that’s how politics works (which sucks but whatever).

Is that not just how the DNC/political parties in general normally works anyways?

It’s not but party unity is also important and we won’t find perfection. Working within the confines of our real world is important but I agree that we need better representatives. Booker is just what our system gave us and he’s a lot better than many alternatives and worse than others.

Mostly I think having a unified message and party is important but hard when you’re dealing with people who actually care.

Well Booker is doing a hell of a lot more than most other reps when it comes to this, no need to shit on the dude.

Like, I’d take him over the GOP candidate that ran against him.

Bro I didn’t feel like fucking with the free fillable forms (basically an electronic version equivalent to filling out and mailing in paper forms) so I used H&R Block this year. They forced me to pay 60 because I can’t file if something somewhat arbitrary “needs done” and having an HSA meant they forced me to input info about it for determining itemizing vs standard. I knew I was taking the standard, could tell them to ignore that HSA shit and still it wouldn’t let me file for free.

It was so stupid.

Next year I’ll not wait until the last minute and go through the trouble of actually filling out the forms but it’s a pain in the ass.

I wish our taxes were like everywhere else on this planet with a reasonable and effective government. Send me a check or a bill. If I think I’m due more or shouldn’t owe I’ll do my own audit of their math and can say “hey fix this” but 99% of the time it’s just right. So much easier and cheaper and simpler.

This country is a joke sometimes.

I did say it was a conspiracy theory or whatever you want to call the fantastical delusions my brain dreams up.

A bit of a conspiracy but I kind of believe the reason that guy got so close to shooting Trump is because Trump’s security detail probably secretly despise him.

Imagine having to deal with that asshole all the time, at some point you’d just be like, “I’m not risking my life and leaving my family without me for this piece of shit.”

I mean I’m sure I’m just being a crazy person and it’s a bit of a joke but … Idk … Maybe?

These fucking Democrats are watching a dude successfully lie and bully his way into the presidency (not to mention that same playbook get adopted by the GOP in general) then think the answer is to be nice?

Newsflash, the voters on the other side aren’t going to be swayed by a “broadly appealing message,” I’d say an insignificant number of people could even be swayed to switch voting from the GOP / MAGA bastards over to the Dem sonofabitches anyways. So galvanized the troops, motivate people to vote and stop pussyfooting around.

Adopt the playbook that keeps working for your enemy, tweak it some sure, but stop thinking a milquetoast “we’re the nice guys” campaign will ever work. It’s failed so many times now, maybe learn a lesson?

This is Lemmy, we’re all yelling into the void here good fellow.

“oh the people who won’t do anything will keep doing nothing”

Oh shit whatever will I do with their feelings being hurt. Poor little fee fees. Fuck the people that sat out or protest voted or were dumb enough to pretend Trump actually would help bring peace anywhere much less to Palestine.

What are they going to do, be upset that they have to hear the truth?