ImADifferentBird

Not sure why Elizabeth Warren would take over or why we'd all be fucked with her as president. Did you somehow confuse Warren with Kamala Harris?

Also not sure how we'd be fucked worse with Harris than with Trump, if that is what you meant. The list of people who'd be worse than Trump is exceedingly short.

Yeah, I wasn't a fan of R-Money, but at least he was just an out-of-touch rich asshole, and not a straight up narcissistic fascist.

Because everyone knows Covid can't spread at protests.

Fortunately, no. He did his time in the late 80s.

Yes, hand the executive branch to the guy who attempted a coup to stay in power last time, backed by the Project 2025 guys, and come back in 4 years for the election that will surely still actually take place. Sure. Great plan.

Hey, it worked for Ukraine.

Well, yeah, I agree in that sense. I just meant that, if Biden dropped out, there would be a bunch of Democratic electors who would be uncommitted. As opposed to if someone dropped out after being elected to Senate or the like, which would probably lead to the government appointing a temporary replacement and scheduling a special election.

The problem is, if Trump wins, there likely won't be a next time. He's out there saying as much on the campaign trail, and he's tried it before.

Lots of people are stupid.

In many ways, our society encourages such stupidity.

Technically, that only really applies for the Presidential election, largely because of the Electoral College. But still, you should never vote for any Republicans anyway, because even affiliating with that den of snakes at this point tells you all you need to know about that candidate.

You're preaching to the choir here. If I could throw Biden out and replace him with, I don't know, Sanders or AOC or someone, I would in a heartbeat.

I agree with you. Trump is, unfortunately, on track to win. And if Trump wins, the death of American democracy is imminent, and none of us are going to like what's next.

I don't get how anyone can see this debate as high stakes. I feel like anyone who's been paying any sort of attention knows who these two guys are and what they're about. If you're a fascist, you're voting Trump. If you're not, the only question is whether you're going to vote Biden or stay home.

Also, please don't stay home. Biden sucks, but Trump is basically openly promising the end of American democracy at this point.

The fact that merely acknowledging that LGBTQ+ people exist and are worthy of basic human dignity and respect is considered a "political opinion" is exactly the problem.

From what I understand, a lot of Israelis are rather unkind towards Holocaust survivors. Which is fucking wild to me.

Rabin was closer than anyone to ending it, and Netanyahu's stochastic terrorism led directly to his death. And he's been propping up Hamas ever since, to give Israel an enemy to hate and prevent peace from ever coming to the region.

Fuck him, he owns it now.

That picture isn't directly related. I think it was taken at the 2016 RNC. I know it's been a meme since roughly that time.

I swear, somewhere along the line, we all ended up living in Pleasantville.

If "treated with basic human dignity and respect" is "treated differently from everyone else" in your eyes, that sounds like a you problem.

Yeah, it is an interesting statistic, isn't it? It definitely doesn't seem like the kids moving away for better economic prospects is the only factor here.

I fought the info and the info won

I got really lucky, in that I had made a Costco run shortly before the shit hit the fan and didn't have to worry about toilet paper while it was in short supply (not hoarding, I had just stocked up like I usually do). Actually ended up handing out a few rolls to friends and neighbors who were having a harder time than I was.

It probably helped that I got a bidet a few months in, and that cut my TP usage dramatically while making my butt also feel cleaner and less irritated.

Perhaps we do. How sad.

“In the fake news media, there are two sets of rules, and conservative[s] are always treated differently,” she continued.

Well, she's right about that much, but not in the way she thinks.

Honestly, the fact that sociopathic whack jobs like Noem are even given the time of day by the media shows how beholden they are to conservative interests.

No, he shouldn't. OJ had a financial obligation to the Goldmans for years that he shirked. He shouldn't get to keep doing so after he's fucking dead. OJ gets to control the disposition of what's left of his estate after his legal obligations are fulfilled.

And that's not even getting into the fact that HE MURDERED THEIR SON.

This is the most incoherent thing I've ever seen...

By speaking out, these "totalitarian" protesters are silencing everyone else and challenging representative democracy? And to stop them from silencing others, they must be arrested to prevent them from speaking?

Dude, this couldn't have sounded good in your fucking head...

13 makes the most sense. There are 13 circuits, why not 13 Supreme Court justices?

That's the nice thing about being a Terry Pratchett fan. The more I learn about him, the more I love him.

Pulling the ladder up behind you is a proud American conservative tradition.

If Trump shares your values, fuck your values.

How many bets this asshole goes on and on about how people are too easily offended and cancel culture is out of control?

She had to put down three horses in one week?

Unless there's some sort of horse pandemic I'm unaware of, that sounds even worse.

Probably the last truly good person to hold the presidency. Godspeed.

You know, I kind of agree with her. I, too, am sick of politicians pretending to be something they're not. So I appreciate her candor in revealing herself as a puppy-killing sociopath.

On a related note, I wouldn't vote for her for any office on Earth, because the last thing we need is more puppy-killing sociopaths in charge.

(My dad would say, "I wouldn't vote for her for dog catcher," to say he thought she wasn't fit for any office at any level, but when I think about it, that's probably the office she's least suited for.)

That's because his supporters worship him as a new messiah and cannot conceive of him having actually committed a crime. Or they don't care if he did or not.

Because none of this is actually about bathroom privacy. It's about an excuse to hate and fear the other.

It distinguished between gender-affirming surgeries, which it rejected, and “genital abnormalities” that are present at birth or that develop later. Those abnormalities can be “resolved” with the help of health care professionals, it said.

Of course. God created males to be male and females to be female, and any attempt to change that is an abomination... but he didn't create intersex people to be intersex, and that must be "corrected". Just goes to show, this is just man putting his hate in God's mouth again.

Honestly, the main reason I don't believe in God is because I can't believe any all-powerful, just and benevolent God would allow things like this to be said in their name without any push back.

The problem is, they're already in a position where they can get charged if they do treat these women, and end up having to do something the anti-abortion assholes don't approve of.

Charging them for not treating the women puts them in a "damned if they do, damned if they don't" situation where the only logical course of action is to shut down the hospital and leave the state.

ONE OF US

ONE OF US

Live your life in such a way that, when you take a sick day from work, half the country doesn't hope it means you're dead.