At this point it’s starting to feel like Biden’s holding the nation at gunpoint and making us have a second Trump term. He’s always been a terrible politician, running twice for the nomination and failing to get a single delegate, until Obama made him VP. Honestly I suspect part of the reason Obama chose him is because he didn’t wanna play kingmaker and figured Biden was too old to run again.
Then in 2020 I think the argument was Biden could benefit from Obama’s popularity. I certainly thought that was a terrible pick, but not totally lacking in logic. But in 2024 there was utterly no rational basis for Biden to be running in the first place. Now that he’s been a complete disaster, he’s just fucking us as a nation for his own narcissism.
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.
Anybody. Buttigieg, Harris, Sanders, AOC, John Elway, I don’t care. Biden keeps saying he’s the only guy who can beat Trump. After last night’s debate it should be obvious that he’s the only guy who can’t beat Trump.
It’s not as if these folks can just go off into the woods and build a cabin. There’s no where to go that isn’t owned or protected. You gotta sleep somewhere, it’s not a choice, people need to sleep.
I can’t wait to see how these laws get misused. My local municipality banned camping in various public places, and if I understand correctly the police used that law as justification to falsely arrest campus protesters back in March/April.
That’s exactly what will happen. Indiana University did that literally a day before the anti-genocide protests started in a field where I spent a month in 1991 doing odd jobs for the tent city set up to protest the 1991 Iraq war. Before that, there was a long-lasting shantytown protesting apartheid in South Africa. Before that, there were anti-Vietnam War encampments.
But suddenly, students weren’t supposed to be there protesting after dark and the cops moved in and started their violence and began arresting people. There was even a sniper on the roof. Seriously.
Was it when they said Hitler didn’t really mean what he said about Jews before he became Chancellor? Or when they knowingly printed lies to make the case for an Iraq invasion? Or be stenographers pretty much anytime the cops say anything? Or the IDF?
I made what might have been the mistake of showing my teenager Idiocracy recently, because now she compares everything to it. I mean she’s not wrong, but…
Absolutely not a mistake. When I read 1984 as a teenager, it forever inoculated me against doublespeak and propaganda. Maybe that movie can fulfill a similar function today.
I know it wasn’t actually a mistake. There’s just been a lot of “that’s just like Idiocracy!” “I know, I know” conversations now. She’s never wrong, obviously.
The fact it’s literally an official statement directly from the Virginia ACLU, on their own site, about the actions they took, is overshadowed by it being a “blog”, cool
Edit Legit what’s the point of this comment? The ACLU defends fascist violence. They did it while trump was in office, they’re doing it now with literal neo-nazi terrorists, and they’ll do that all throughout trump’s next term as fuhrer until he has them all put in camps along with the actually vulnerable people they protect. ACLU is not your friend. They’ll just act like it while also defending the fascists trying to kill you. None of this is changed just bc this statement is in the form of a blog post.
My god man. Are you actually trying to say that free speech should be regulated to allow only what YOU like to hear?
The ACLU adhered to constitutional law. That YOU don’t is irrelevant. They said they abhor his ideology but protect his right to say what he wants. Because … that’s how it works.
Do you also hate the military? Because they exist to defend the freedoms Americans enjoy. Like free speech. Which means they also defend the rights of asshole wannabe Nazis.
You can’t cherry pick the laws. Do you see how MAGA conservatives circumvent and violate the constitution on abortion rights and biblical studies in classrooms?
Yeah… you’re doing the same thing by whining about how the ACLU protected someone’s rights in a country where they’re allowed to speak.
If you don’t like what people say- don’t listen to them. But YOU have no right to dictate the rights of others. Even if they’re asshole Nazis.
Now go ahead and accuse me of whatever will make you sleep better at night.
It’s funny how MAGA bots pretend to have a cause so long as it reduces the amount of people That vote against their boy. I’m pretty certain there aren’t many people that actually believe that tire here in good faith.
Because we both know that your gEnOciDe is going to be worse under Trump. And you don’t give two shits it seems.
I disagree with you, that makes me a maga bot cx it’s funny how liberals can’t imagine for even one second the idea that someone besides a trump supporter wouldn’t be 100% on board with everything democrats do. I don’t tolerate nazis, therefore I am one. Very solid deduction, another mystery solved thanks to detective samtanko xD
Well, considering that you hate Biden, and according to you- the military… right there seems to be two things you have in common with Trump. The third being that you don’t seem to ever think before you speak. Because nearly everthing you say is either flat out untrue, or rearranged half-truths. So it’s not a giant leap to mark the similarities between the two of you.
And I didn’t call you a Nazi. Stop trying to be a victim here. That shit doesn’t fly. What I did say is that you possess very striking similarities to MAGA trolls.
What gets me is part of Project 2025 is planning on reclassifying all of the workers in the exact agencies this affects with sycophants and yes-men. As I understand it, the entire idea of that move is that Trump and the GOP can bypass Congress and the courts and essentially rule however they want.
Doesn’t this decision run counter to that? Instead of allowing the regulatory bodies that are going to be sycophantilized to just run shot over their domains, now the risk having a non-sympathetic judge or an unfavorable swing in voting in Congress?
I think it’s for when the law is considered vague, they don’t rely on the “experts” in these positions to give an answer they let the SCOTUS decide now.
What project 2025 would want to do is ensure the day to day operations are kept in a “business friendly” manner too so if they control both I guess it’s just more ways for them to get what they want. :(
It really doesn’t seem to be the political climate to do something good for the people right now, at least in the US. I feel dirty even typing the last part. It’s so sad.
I just don’t understand how a person could be so dumb as to send something illegal, regardless of what it is, to a single person over telegram—which is clearly not a private method of communication. It’s obviously a cop.
which is clearly not a private method of communication.
When Telegram touts itself as secure encrypted communication and how it values privacy, I can understand why he thought he’d be safe. He looks like he’s probably in his 40s like I am, meaning he’s old enough to not get this sort of thing because he didn’t grow up with it.
Edit: Not defending what happened, I’m glad he was caught and I don’t care that he didn’t understand what Telegram was advertising.
Anyone in their 40s grew up with technology and should know that it can never be trusted.
And it wasn’t telegram that (probably) gave them away. They probably met someone online in a an insecure place, then suggested they move to telegram to trade files. Dumb dumb dumb.
My prediction is that one of them doesn’t make it to Inauguration Day and the country panics as a result. Is likely? No. But on this timeline it makes the most sense
If Trump wins and dies before taking office would be a lot worse then Biden dieing.
Before Trump’s body is even cold there would be endless amount of conspiracies that Democrats killed Trump. The only saving grace would be Trump’s VP and other blood suckers all have diarrhea for brains and lack the charisma to take advantage of the situation.
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