Perfect, except there wouldn’t be anyone on the lower track. But definitely gets the point across.

I was going to make this, but put Palestine before the fork. And then put the person away from the lever refusing to participate when pulling the lever would move it to a track with nobody on it. Or pulling a different lever that does nothing (labeled Jill Stein).

Palestine is and will continue to get run over regardless who wins the presidency, so they aren’t exactly relevant to the choice. It’s not a real trolley problem because it’s not a trade for different people. It’s just “let the trolley run over Ukrainians, lgbtq+ people, minorities, and immigrants” or… don’t. And then refusing to touch the lever because it somehow makes you “love genocide” to have anything to do with the trolley, even if to mitigate the damage.

Flying a confederate flag in Pennsylvania is about the most ridiculous thing I can think of off-hand. In the south, they’re all about “it’s not about racism, it’s about heritage!” People flying it in the north are, like, “Nope, racism! I don’t have any heritage with this, except its heritage of racism!”

There are people undecided on whether they will be voters. Plenty of people who would vote Republican who could not bring themselves to vote Democrat even against fascism, or a candidate with dementia, or a felon, might be convinced to just stay home. And plenty left-leaning types who can’t be assed to go to a ballot box might find the motivation when they have someone that actually seems presidential, who they might want to have as a president (when apparently the threat of fascism wasn’t enough of a motivation).

I disagree. If we sent 100 personnel with an air defense group to Ukraine, shit would get pretty real pretty fast. Sending people is a whole different commitment to sending weapons.

I had an old instructor who liked to say “when it comes to breakfast, what’s the difference between the chicken and the pig? The chicken made a contribution, the pig made a commitment.”

Sending our own troops stops being a contribution and starts being a commitment.

Perhaps, hold an opinion and then go on to Google to deny it… Sounds wrong…

No, that’s about right. If you have an opinion, you should be challenging it with additional information. The key is not tossing anything anything that doesn’t already agree with your opinion. Going in with the understanding that you are looking for information that proves you wrong is a good approach, though.

You’ve got exceptionally broad powers, King Biden. What are you going to do about it?

Places that flood bad enough that people and animals die in them?

Even if that were true, which is truly ridiculous, new factions would pop up. If it swayed so far left that the Democrats always won, all the further left people would demand all the things they’ve been left without just to keep fascists from winning.

Basically, it would just be a leftward shift of the Overton window, which is LONNNG overdue. But it certainly wouldn’t be the end of elections, that’s stupid.

It was that plus the “if Biden drops out it will be a whole ordeal establishing a new candidate.” It wasn’t. It was quick, painless, and even the VP choosing was relatively quick and made people happy.

If you got’em, I’ll take a Bismarck (or Boston Creme, whatever you want to call them, the chocolate covered cream filled one). If not, maybe you’re the type of donut shop that also has cinnamon rolls? No?

Just a coffee, then, please.

“Certified president? Certified…”

“I want you to notice… when I’m not around…”

Cut to Harris smiling and waving with some of her campaign goals on screen

“You’re so very special… I wish I was special…”

Cut to Trump with his duck face pose, with various SA accusations, “grab them by the pussy” quotes, and 34 convictions.

“But I’m a creep… I’m a weirdo…”

Cut to Trump looking confused and tired.

“What the hell am I doing here?”

Cut to Trump standing awkwardly near previous presidents, or just a picture of presidents from both parties talking without him in it.

“I don’t belong here…”

Cut to sad dejected Trump

“I don’t… belong… here.”

“But the body’s just… lying there. Right?”

DM stares

“Right?”

“Yes. Don’t…”

“LOOT THAT BODY, GONNA LOOT THAT BODY NOW. Loot that body, GONNA LOOT THE MUTHAFUCKAAA!”

And Trump’s wife, mother, and grandfather are and were immigrants, but it doesn’t stop him from hating immigrants. That type of inconsistency isn’t an issue for him, so I imagine calling Harris an antisemite is perfectly reasonable to him.

“But Your Honor, I never believed those delaying tactics would work so well! Who could have guessed we’d still be doing this?!”

Oh, he’s married?

I remember seeing a documentary about that in the 80s with a guy trying to escape a large city set up to be a maximum security prison. It was called Escape from New York.

They made similar documentary about Los Angeles in the 90s. Interesting stuff.

I prefer when it plays a song as the battle theme that is a version of what you’ve been hearing the whole time, where the lyrics start making sense and add a bunch to the fight.

Ex: FFXIV Shadowbringers, the theme “Shadowbringers” that starts out “One brings Shadow, one brings the Light…” and is just generally a banger that goes along with a great and meaningful fight.

Also the quest you’re completing is called “Shadowbringers.”

So kind of the same thing, I guess.

Seriously, try being the candidate talking shit about an astronaut and decorated servicemember. “I like people who stay on Earth.” Well I don’t!