Yeah. It’s called negotiating. You start at a number higher than what you’d be happy with, expecting to meet somewhere in the middle.

He seems to represent McConnell, who certainly seemed surprised about the dictator thing. His bitch ass still fell in line, though. Even if he does quietly complain occasionally.

Why? So that they’re officially convicted so that Trump can pardon them?

How, exactly? They own the courts, and have the presidency, senate, and likely the house. How exactly do we fight back? America gave them the authority to do anything they want that doesn’t require a super majority.

Except local refusal to enforce doesn’t really work with gay marriage. If feds refuse to accept gay marriage, they won’t be able to file jointly on federal taxes, and the protections to Rights for spouses like medical visitation / decisions would have to be repeated locally, which could (would) get challenged and ultimately overruled by SCOTUS

Biden is too old, I refuse to vote for Genocide Joe!

Ok, but Harris is really the only choice this late in the race, and her policies are probably pretty similar. Would you really vote for her?

Yes! Anything is better than an old senile man!

Biden steps down.

1 month of silence.

Screeeee I refuse to vote for genocide!!!

Lemmy “leftist”: ULTIMATUM ULTIMATUM ULTIMATUM ULTIMATUM ULTIMATUM

Dems: ok fine, here.

Lemmy “leftist”: takes one step to the left ULTIMATUM 2.0 ULTIMATUM 2.0 ULTIMATUM 2.0 ULTIMATUM 2.0

Dems: ugh. Shut the fuck up.

Lemmy “leftists”: so much for the tolerant left

And yet, the Overton window isn’t wide enough to fight a tiny slice of window, which is “far right fascists”

You give the media and social media propaganda machines too little credit. Maybe they aren’t directly tied to the official Trump campaign, but they’re funded and executed by the same organizations.

And in the same breath, they’ll say it’s the Dems fault for supporting genocide.

“Or votes wouldn’t have made a difference in the outcome, but Dems lost because they didn’t do the thing that would have supposedly gotten our vote”

Yep.

No, the difference is the extent of which they will enable genocide. And I’m not just taking about Gaza.

It’s a massive fucking difference.

I thought the Harris campaigns ads to encourage female voters in red counties was incredibly demeaning.

“What happens at the polls stays at the polls”

I’m male, but I cringed hard at those ads.

I wonder if the had good reception at focus groups or something. Maybe it really did play well, I don’t know. But it made it seems like women were too weak to own their opinions or vote.

Trump wanted to deport Haitans to Mexico. You’re not getting a free ride to Ireland. Hope you like tequila.

For me, it was the days and weeks after Jan 6th, when it became clear that outright insurrection, a violent coup, was not going to spark a course correct.

The republican party should have shattered. The non-fascists should have woken up, and fought with MAGA, and years later, a viable political party rise from the ashes.

But that didn’t happen. A few conscientious dissenters fell on their swords, most at retirement age anyway. Fascism took over completely. And the American people ate it up.

Weeks after Jan 6th, it was clear that consequences were not coming. They took their mask off, and no one cared, or couldn’t stop them.

And here we are. Convicted felon with absolute power on his way to the Whitehouse, who owns the SCOTUS, Senate, and likely the House.

Trump will have unchecked power to do whatever he damn well pleases.

Way to fucking go, America. I fucking hate my countrymen.

Possibly benefit from some brain drain too

Don’t worry, he’ll live comfortably with himself because all the bad things MAGA will do in the next 4 years and beyond will be the Dems fault. No self reflection or personal accountability will occur.

Don’t forget misogyny

Eh. The local elections are pretty hard to find good information. Candidates and ballot measures.

It’s hard to even find any kind of real debate outside of their written statements, which seem extremely misleading.

Edit - but at least the vote tallying makes sense

Not a problem. They lose one voter (if the conviction sticks) and strengthen the fanaticism of their victimization narrative. To them, that says that the deep state just covers up for the antifa, and suppresses their voice.

I hear Tar and Feathering traitors was all the rage back in the founding father days.