In 2028 we can have a progressive with no neoliberal baggage
I'll believe it when I see it. I fully expect the superdelegates to crown another milquetoast neolib as nominee. Newsom or Harris probably. There will almost certainly be some silliness in 26 and 27 to get some lesser-known names propped up some so that they can have a chance, but we'll have a stage with 15 people on it and only about 3 will be taken seriously. Idk who specifically to even hope for right now. There are some good younger Dems, but they need more time in the oven before even attempting a presidential run. Fox News has done a good job demonizing certain names such that even people who aren't plugged into it have heard and believe the attacks.
For example, I don't think AOC could get elected for anything other than her current district or maybe Senate. She might even hurt a ticket as a VP pick. She might be good on a cabinet, but that's not elected, and that's probably the end of her political career.
Buttigieg has been doing the work of getting on right wing media to surgically dismantle attacks and explain how his policy positions benefit everyday Americans, and I think he usually comes off as intelligent and compassionate, not condescending. As with all politicians, I don't put him on any sort of pedestal, but he's putting in the work and proving he has effective communication, and that's an incredibly important skill for a president to have.
Idk. There's still a little hope in the tank here, and I'll vote in my primary to try to get somebody who isn't ass garbage, but I expect something like Newsom v Youngkin/Vance if trump isn't still alive and cancelling elections to cling onto power.
"I'm putting together a team. The best team. The best people--look, there's a lot of, shall we say, bad folks. Can I say bad folks? The woke don't like that too much, you can't say anything nowadays, but if they had it their way, I'd just say that I disagree, but I don't just disagree, they're bad folks with bad ideas and they're very low IQ. The sleepy Joe Biden people were just so incompetent and they left me with nothing and it's horrible, and they should be arrested for what they've done, and I'm gonna look into it. But with these South Park, have you seen this? It's unbelievable, but the left got to them and now they don't do Obama anymore, and they make things up about me, and it's actually not small, not even, like, it's really quite large, but you won't hear that because I'm very humble, but I have to tell you that I've heard many girls say that it's not small, and more than they want, and not just from the very young and small girls either, but I shouldn't talk about that. My lawyers say 'Sir! Sir! Don't talk about the young girls!' but I have a very popular, they can't keep their hands off me, and what am I supposed to say? 'No'? 'Wait until you're 16, 17, 18'? There's no, and it's very unfair how they're treating me, and it never would've happened to any other president. The Clintons were very bad people, both of them, and they don't even hide it, but it's always me that gets attacked by the fake news media, and I'll never get any credit for the deals...
But which one are you? Kanye or R Kelly? Because I want you both, you could really help me out with the blacks, and I could really help you with the pardon. And perhaps there could be a little get together at the southern white house, and we could talk about things and meet some young girls together, and it's not gay so long as the balls don't touch, they say. Many people say that."
You know what? You're right. But it shouldn't be. I'm wrong to assume that things are as they should be and that politicians' families are not dodging consequences.
I'm not OP, but I'm guessing that they're referring to the news story more than the law enforcement. I don't think that this is newsworthy. Criminal charges happen all the time, but this one is only getting attention because his mommy is in Congress; I have no reason to believe that she's involved in this crime in any way. I also didn't give a shit about Hunter Biden's drug addictions or gun crime or whatever else was going on with him. It would be newsworthy if these people weren't charged because that would indicate that there are no consequences for family of politicians.
You're 100% correct, but when the new way of doing things is to deny you your right to due process, then you will never get that day in front of a judge to argue that you were detained illegally. We have a police state that is kidnapping people and shipping them off to another country without their day in court, possibly in a prison for the rest of their lives. I would argue that the threat of that is no different than the cops threatening to shoot them; either way, they're dead with no hope for justice. At least getting shot would be a relatively quick way to go.
If the secret police break down my door to kidnap me, somebody will be dying that day, and it'll almost certainly be me, but hopefully also a couple of them as well. If I can't save myself, I'd like to at least help to reduce the number of kidnappers, and hopefully deter others from carrying out their fuhrer's orders for fear that it could happen to them too.
I think that the country is now at the point where it wouldn't take much of a spark to blow the doors off this bitch. Of course the Epstein files thing matters, but it's really heartbreaking that that's what's galvanizing the masses instead of when he started literally disappearing people to concentration camps.
Are you not enjoying your victory gin and victory cigarettes, comrade? And now that chocolate rations have increased from 30g to 20g, we have even more to celebrate.
It doesn't, and that's the point. He's throwing lots of random shit at the walls in desperate attempts to distract from the Epstein files. And it's not working.
You forgot "insurrectionist" too. Remember, a Colorado judge found that Trump had engaged in insurrection, but kept him on the ballot in 2024 for some stupid fucking reason. The argument was that, although the 14th amendment bars "officers" who engaged in insurrection from holding office again, does the chief executive officer of the country, the person holding the office of President, really qualify as an officer? And the answer to that question should obviously be yes. Per the 14th amendment, he should've been disqualified from running, and I have no idea how anybody could seriously interpret the intent of the law in any other way.
If you kill him, you make a martyr of him. That also leads to president couch-fucker. Of course the world would be better off if he'd never been born, but we can't do anything about that.
I'd rather he be painfully humiliated. Mutilate his genitals with garden shears in one of his oval office press conference tirades, live on TV. Added benefit of him never raping a child or writer or wife again.
Thankfully, Thomas Jefferson only ever had his female slaves do housework like laundry and dishes and cooking. I'm not even sure what else he could've possibly made them do for him.
She's not his press secretary. It's not your fault for thinking that though, given how much fucking time she spends in front of cameras defending trump. But that just helps you point even more. Why is half of this cabinet in the news dealing with scandals 24/7?
For the life of me, I can't remember any cabinet member from this time last year except AG Garland and DOT secretary Buttigieg off the top of my head. I just looked it up and thought "oh yeah" when I saw Blinken and Yellen. I recognized Austin's picture, but never would've been able to guess his name. I recognized nobody else.
Holy fuck, I miss having rational people in control. I was able to just deal with my own shit without worrying about total collapse. Fuck Biden and Harris for not taking the Israel concerns seriously enough, and fuck the people who withheld their vote over that to pave the way for what we have now. The options now seem to be basically either 1941 Germany or 476 Rome.
They also do "I identify as [blank]". But I haven't heard that one as much lately. Maybe they figured out that it was never actually funny and other conservatives were laughing just to be polite.
Or just run around the board, tracking your laps. Every lap, shit gets more expensive. The first player to go around the board 5 times without going bankrupt or drawing a "you died" chance card wins.
Other chance cards could include "you survived the round of layoffs, but productivity goals remain the same. Lose $50 buying coffee to keep up." Or "Take a mental health day. Gain $20 since you didn't spend it commuting." Or "Sunday brunch with friends. Lose $30 on avocado toast and mimosas."
Community chest cards can all be like $5 of help and specifically point out that social safety nets have been all but dismantled. Some can be dropping like $100 on you, but at the cost of your next turn because you spent all day on the phone and/or doing tedious paperwork to maximize assistance.
Somebody take these ideas and just make a new board game called Peasants or Surviving Capitalism or Proletarians or something. If you make a ton of money off of it, just throw me 1%. If you only make a little money, just throw me a free copy.
That's fine. I'm worried about getting kidnapped by ice at customs on my way back in, so I'm not visiting anywhere for a bit. White US citizen born in NY btw, but that will hardly matter when they go after leftists or non trump voters or anybody who seems a little too "woke" for their liking.
"First they came for..." famously has several stanzas. None of us is safe from them.
Supporting the conservative party which seeks to undo progress and maintain the status quo as a form of "rebellion" is so goddamn typical of idiot kids. The elderly and young people agree on one general stance: "idk wtf you're talking about and I absolutely don't like it or want it."
The shrink of our memories and attention spans will have been our undoing. It's probably already over, and it'll be another 50 years or so before people realize it. Idk if we can ever recover from all of this, so I'm just gonna drink and play video games between chores today instead of watching for current events.
It's important to take breaks from the doom and gloom. We can take a day off from rearranging deck chairs once in a while. We owe it to ourselves.
I'll believe it when I see it. I fully expect the superdelegates to crown another milquetoast neolib as nominee. Newsom or Harris probably. There will almost certainly be some silliness in 26 and 27 to get some lesser-known names propped up some so that they can have a chance, but we'll have a stage with 15 people on it and only about 3 will be taken seriously. Idk who specifically to even hope for right now. There are some good younger Dems, but they need more time in the oven before even attempting a presidential run. Fox News has done a good job demonizing certain names such that even people who aren't plugged into it have heard and believe the attacks.
For example, I don't think AOC could get elected for anything other than her current district or maybe Senate. She might even hurt a ticket as a VP pick. She might be good on a cabinet, but that's not elected, and that's probably the end of her political career.
Buttigieg has been doing the work of getting on right wing media to surgically dismantle attacks and explain how his policy positions benefit everyday Americans, and I think he usually comes off as intelligent and compassionate, not condescending. As with all politicians, I don't put him on any sort of pedestal, but he's putting in the work and proving he has effective communication, and that's an incredibly important skill for a president to have.
Idk. There's still a little hope in the tank here, and I'll vote in my primary to try to get somebody who isn't ass garbage, but I expect something like Newsom v Youngkin/Vance if trump isn't still alive and cancelling elections to cling onto power.