I'm usually also following up on States Rights stuff. It's good to do that even with the illusion because when you live in the south, you're in the minority if you don't believe in states rights being the reason for secession.
I spent years trying to convince people to vote. Not just presidential elections, the yearly local shit too. It's become one of the big things I've been doing a lot.
When I had people I respected proudly tell me they didn't vote either way, I lost hope for this damn country that if one this fucking important couldn't get them to bother, nothing will.
I can't blame people for leaving after that, I'm not sure I have the energy in me to keep beating the drum if I'm completely surrounded by people who are in far more danger than I am giving far less shits than I do.
"All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction."
Dunno, a non-rebreather mask would would work as it doesn't let you inhale the exhaled air. So a 100% nitrogen flow through it would be on the more painless methods.
Of course, those who want the death penalty don't want painless so...
I mean, the bar isn't exactly a high one to cross in our situation. The ONLY good thing about Trump is his five year old with a shotgun strategy in he's as likely to fuck up a bunch of Republicans on his way of hurting everyone else. Trump is for Trump and no one else.
Vance at least will believe in the party... when I say competence I don't mean in running the country. I mean competence in when being in control if not a tyrant, but a good enough puppet that he won't tear down the foundations of the reign.
Understand, when I say competent... that's the worse category.
I saw on a conservative discussion group about making "TDS" (Trump Derangement Syndrom is what they're calling it) an actual entry into psychiatric work. I was wondering where this was coming from.
I've stopped asking about States Rights to do what, they just sidestep it. I just ask them about the confederate constitution.
Article I, Sec. 9(4), Article IV, Sec 2(1)(3), Sec 3(3) (I'll give a hint, it's where the CSA federal government outlawed states enacting laws to outlaw slavery. States Rights my ass)
If I get the sputtering boat of "butbutbut" after that it's what are the secession declarations of Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia.
At that point either they really didn't fucking know... I grew up in the South and I was an adult before I knew a lot of these, it certainly isn't in the education system I'll tell you that... but if it isn't the really didn't know category, then they're as much a lost cause as their myth.
Someone else pointed it out, Freedom Convoy was effectively the next "States Rights" Don't argue with them in good faith, they don't argue in good faith themselves.
They're the ones that cry "2A" about guns but worship the ground of Ronny Reagan who enacted gun legislation to go against the Black Panthers. This is the group that also talks about 2A and would storm the capital attacking police but calls Black Lives Matter riots and cheer when police show up. Hell, they cry about 2A when they worship Trump who said "Take their guns first, due process after."
They talk about "Freedom of Religion" but it's always their religion. War on Christmas, how dare they take down the ten commandments, while cheering for the guy who wanted a Muslim ban, attacked Sikhs post 9/11 because they couldn't even get the religion they were mad at right, and want to force their religion into schools and courthouses.
They talk about freedom of speech when they scream about being able to lie, but cheer that Musk will throw people off that will actually fact check. The party of "Fuck your feelings" cries how they're being attacked and needs protected when it's turned around on them.
They cry about discrimination with Affirmative Action, but it's simply the new Southern Strategy post Obama. Had a black president, racism is over, wave the flags. Oh, still helping minorities, RACISM! But they still stand with people who wave the swastika and the confederate flag and manage to say with a straight face they are not racist at all.
They made use of the social contract of tolerance, that we're all supposed to get along as a society. They have done so by spitting in peoples faces, enacting violence, screaming epitaphs and being the worst people ever, then run back to society every time it's turned on them.
Do not give them the good faith they ask for. Do not treat them as reasonable human beings, they are not. When they can act with basic fucking decorum that is required to be a person, then they can be treated like members of society again.
You'll have to rinse/repeat a lot with this administration. Vance will be marginally better/worse. Basically he won't be absolutely unpredictable, but he'll be competent.
No no no... we want a very RAPID decline to minimize the damage. If he were on his own, it'd be different but this is a time I'd rather minimize the suffering for everyone.
I'm usually also following up on States Rights stuff. It's good to do that even with the illusion because when you live in the south, you're in the minority if you don't believe in states rights being the reason for secession.