I think she’d be great because she would hire very smart people to advise her on her weak areas. “If you’re dumb, surround yourself with smart people. And if you’re smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you.” She’s smart, and she knows a lot of smart people.
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Yeah, I’m dismissing this as rambling, but of a bot account funded by a right-wing organization.
Yep. And we’re seeing some movement on the outside making inroads into the party itself, which is great. There are more people trying to primary their establishment dems, and a lot of them are winning. But even if every Democrat in office right now were to lose their next primary, it would still take the better part of a decade to turn the entire party over.
If we survive this thing, the democratic party that comes out of it will be stronger for having been infused with younger, more progressive voices; but the road to that future is long.
No argument there. But we can’t even get the man out of office right now; how likely is it that we’re going to change the whole system in light of that?
But again, a general strike is something out of reach of most Americans, who live paycheck-to-paycheck and could be fired (and thus denied healthcare) at any moment.
nobody in America seems to care enough to meaningfully change it
People keep saying this as if we’ve all got a lever we could pull to get him out of office and just…aren’t doing it. No, there’s no direct way to make it happen. There’s no meaningful opposition party, and no way to remove a president from office without one. The indirect ways to do it–namely, protest and primary challenges–well, a lot of us are doing that. And those who are and aren’t protesting are held back by needing to work in an economic system that ties our healthcare to our employment.
The problem can’t be solved in just a few months. This is a coordinated assault against liberty that began decades ago; it’d take a few years to sort out even if the entire middle and lower class was in agreement, and a sizable undereducated, propagandized population in the lower class is going to take some time to get on board.
“Wake up” and do what? Take up arms? That’s a pipe dream sold by the NRA to keep conservatives buying guns. So what are we supposed to do that we’re not already doing?
I moved to New Zealand at the first of the year, so for me it’s right on time.
Y’all, he backtracked. That’s big.
Let’s stop enabling him with headlines. He didn’t “sign an executive order limiting mail-in voting,” because executive orders can’t legally do that. He attempted to limit mail-in voting with an executive order. Stop granting the premise. If it works, it won’t be because of an EO, it’ll be because the USPS broke the law. Trump’s power requires others to treat it as absolute. We’ve got to stop agreeing to do so.
Why might they be afraid of what an up-and-coming young Texas Democrat who pushes back on their co-opting of “Christian values” could potentially say? Gosh, what a mystery.
I am so tired of this comment. Yes, I’m also worried about it. But this tired cliche doesn’t tell anyone anything they don’t already know, doesn’t raise any alarms or call anyone to any action, doesn’t do anything but spread more doomerism into an already oversaturated doomspace. It’s useless content, on the level of replying “first!” to a YouTube video circa 2013.
I’m sorry that you had to be the recipient of this tirade. But I swear, I see this comment several times every day, and I can’t help wondering, “so what do you want me to do about it? What are YOU doing about it?” No. We have to assume there will be an election until there isn’t, and then we have to respond. Until then, we have to help each other out and keep on doing what we can. We definitely don’t have to comment the same low-effort doom every time midterm elections are mentioned; it just demoralizes people and makes the Trump fascism machine seem inevitable and unstoppable.
I’ve been burned too many times for real predictions, but I hope we’re about to need all new words for “blowout” soon.
It’s even worse than that. He really wanted to go to Epstein’s Island, but Jeffy boy had his people brush him off.
How about this: the general public treats ICE as well as they treat their worst-abused prisoner. Deal?
Both things can be the reasonable response.
I wouldn’t. I want him to survive long enough to get thoroughly humiliated in court, and I definitely don’t want him to become a martyr. I want him to die in disgrace doing something banal, embarrassing, and publicly stupid. Something so embarrassing that people erupt into spontaneous and uncontrollable laughter just hearing his name. I don’t just want him dead, I want his whole movement to be completely discredited. If he’s assassinated, then forevermore his followers will remember him with fondness and his enemies will remember him with fear. But if he wipes his nose on the Epstein Files, trips on a hamburger, falls face-first into a diet coke, and drowns, he’ll never again be any more than a punchline.
His brain is tapioca. He probably believed whatever Fox was spewing about Walz until he talked to him and discovered that, no, actually Walz is working on this and not just eating bon-bons or something.
You should watch the Technology Connections video about “…but sometimes!”
FYI, you can replace the “shorts” in the link with “watch” and it’ll show up as a normal old video.
I haven’t been on Reddit in at least two years, maybe longer. I can’t remember and honestly don’t care enough to check. But that sort of statement sounds exactly what I would tell my staff to have the bots write when accused of being bots, if I worked at an agency aiming to stir up dissent on social media.
So how about this: if you want to prove that you’re not a bot, try being kind and thoughtful about what you say, be introspective about your edgelord views, and actually write something that has respect for the dignity of human life.