Boddhisatva @ Boddhisatva @lemmy.world

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We are so fucked...

Trump wants a job where one of the rules is no having sex? I don't buy it for a second. Also, imagine the shock wave traveling around the world as every conservative head in America exploded at once if Obama had posted something like this.

He's going to pull a Henry VIII and make a state sanctioned version of Christianity called the Church of America, isn't he.

There has been a lot of disinformation out there about RCV so you can't even count on support from those who would benefit if they fall for the propaganda. It is definitely an uphill battle.

If we could pass Ranked Choice voting

Sadly, that's not going to happen any time soon. In fact, the Republicans are even now working on passing new legislation that will ban RCV in elections for federal office. Who's going to stop them. There are maybe half a dozen people in all of Congress that would support RCV. This bill is almost certain to be passed.

I don't think that it's really that strange at all.

• The uneducated are easy to frighten and coerce. The educated can be dangerous in part because they will likely be resistant to the rest of the methods of control that you listed.
• People instinctively trust people in authority, like a child believing their parents. Denying basic facts and reality lets the authoritarian create a new reality in the eyes of their subjects and keeps the people in blinders about what's really happening.
• Religions have always been used to control the masses.
• People who are poor have few options open to them. People with lots of children will almost certainly be poor under an authoritarian regime. Such people also cannot effectively resist the authoritarian since doing so would put their family at risk. In essence, it gets people to forge their own chains.
• Like religion, sex in general has long been used to control people. In fact, sex habits is one of the common tools religions use to control their devotees.

Why not just say, nearly all Trump voters think Chinese Americans are a threat. We all know who that 25% is.

“I don’t want my kids taught that crap. I mean, it’s crap,” Shelnutt said on the floor.

Then home-school your kids and let them remain ignorant of the real world. Public schools are for everyone's kids and you shouldn't be allowed to restrict their education based on your moronic conservative religious beliefs.

Sentient? Not sure I've go that far.

But other accounts show increased black-and-white thinking on issues such Israel’s massacre of Gaza, which has alienated many of his staffers, and an inexplicable show of support for certain Trump administration polices,

Is this finally evidence that brain damage can turn you into a conservative?

Good for her! We need more of this.

Conservative influencer Charlie Kirk said Omar “has no class, no gratitude to America, and no honor,” adding that she was “truly a disgrace to the U.S. Congress.”

Oh please, a Trump supporter claiming someone else has no honor and is a disgrace?

“Reminder: Democrats say Donald Trump has lowered the tone of political rhetoric,” conservative pundit Piers Morgan said.

Yeah, no shit. This is what happens when someone in a position like Trump lowers the level of discourse. It's incredible that douche bags like this think that the left should be held to a higher standard than their orange painted sewer pipe.

Mr. Trump has used words that would have once gotten a kid’s mouth washed out with soap at least 140 times in public this year. Counting tamer four-letter words like “damn” and “hell,” he has cursed in public at least 1,787 times in 2024.

“When Elon Musk came to the White House asking me for help on all of his many subsidized projects, whether it’s electric cars that don’t drive long enough, driverless cars that crash, or rocketships to nowhere, without which subsidies he’d be worthless...

Seems like that should be a fine place to save some money then. Trump is basically admitting here that we are cutting school lunches, medicaid, and poverty programs while at the same time we are spending billions supporting failing businesses just so Musk can keep getting richer.

He can fuck himself to until I see him standing in the streets with us not a podium with a microphone.

Like I said, I get how people feel about billionaires because I feel the same. They should not exist. However, I think Pritker is a good man and is using his wealth to actually do some good. In answer to your request, here are a couple pictures of him on the streets with marchers and protesters. There are more if you want to take the time to look for them.

Just do me one favor. Don't choose to vote for a candidate just because he tells you he it going to work towards noble goals over a candidate who has an honest history of working towards and achieving such goals. Look up Pritzker's history, actions, and accomplishments rather than dismissing him out of hand. I really think that he is our best option now that Bernie seems to be out of the picture.

At rally in south suburbs, governor urges ‘protests paired with policy and action’

Marching in Pride protest (from his instagram)

Marching in the 2020 Juneteenth parade in Chicago

I lived in Illinois when Pritzker first ran against Rauner, a republican billionaire. I was pissed that those were my choices. But I knew how bad Rauner had been. Illinois was in a debt spiral and Rauner had only made it worse. He was the latest in 20 years of incompetent and in some cases criminal leadership for the state. Quinn, the governor before Rauner had averaged one credit downgrade every 181 days. Rauner somehow managed to do worse! He averaged a downgrade every 101 days.. Illinois was literally a step away from junk bond status in 2017 according to Moody's.

I held my nose and voted for Pritzker and his performance has been nothing short of amazing. He turned Illinois around financially. In 2023 Pritzker earned Illinois its ninth credit rating upgrade in two years. Illinois had not had a credit upgrade prior to these since June of 2000!. The state is now in the "A" category again. In 2024, the state was #1 in the nation for workforce development, #2 for corporate investments, and #5 for cost of living.

Aside from his financial wizardry in the state, he has been a progressive leader. He has increased funding for K-12 education and expanded childcare and early childhood education. He has worked to modernize infrastructure including bridges, schools, roads and broadband. He helped ban assault weapons and ghost guns. Passed the Climate and Equitable Jobs act. He was one of the first in the nation to issue a stay at home order during Covid, second only to California. He raised the minimum wage. He abolished cash bail. He banned state funds from libraries that banned any books. He even legalized weed and expunged eight-hundred thousand convictions for weed related crimes. He strengthened Illinois's laws protecting abortion access, and passed legislation creating protections for those who go to Illinois for reproductive care including abortions. He declared Illinois to be ground zero in the abortion fight when he addressed the state general assembly and called for the state to be a safe haven for reproductive rights.

When SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade he issued this statement. Here is a highlight from it.

To the right-wing officeholders who today are cheering the Supreme Court's ruling: GET YOUR IRON BOOT OFF WOMEN'S NECKS! Hop off your high horse and know that what you're calling a "celebration of life" today will actually lead to death — the death of women in abusive situations, the death of women whose health is at risk, the death of women and girls who will still seek abortions—ones that are unsafe and performed by unqualified back-alley butchers.

Let me make this explicit and clear to women throughout our state, the Midwest, and our nation: Illinois will be a safe haven for the exercise of your reproductive rights. In Illinois, Roe v. Wade is still the law, and it will remain the law as long as we have a pro-choice legislature and a pro-choice governor. Here, we trust you to make your own decisions about your reproductive health. We will defend your right to bodily autonomy.

In Illinois, we will hold firm to these rights and continue to work with stakeholders - many of whom are standing with me now - to expand them.

To that end, I am informing the General Assembly that I will be calling them into special session in the coming weeks to more firmly protect women's reproductive rights in Illinois and address the challenges posed by this radical Supreme Court decision. I'm grateful to have the support and partnership of House Speaker Emanuel "Chris" Welch and Senate President Don Harmon in this effort. Together, the Democratic leadership in Illinois is committed to taking swift action to further enshrine our commitment to reproductive healthcare.

I want to close by speaking directly to those who have the most at stake in today's decision:

To the single mom juggling four kids and three-part time jobs, Illinois will fight for you. To the teenage CHILD, who endured rape or incest, Illinois will fight for you. To the marginalized and most vulnerable, who are being attacked at every turn by transphobic, or misogynistic or bigoted politicians, Illinois will fight for you. We will NOT turn back the clock. Here in the Land of Lincoln and the home state of Barack Obama, where we were the first to ratify women's suffrage 100 years ago, we will continue the fight for freedom, liberty, and justice for ALL.

I absolutely understand where you're coming from. No one should be a billionaire. They should not exist. But in this one, probably unique case, Pritzker has shown himself to be a good man and has brought Illinois from the brink back to economic stability. Check out what he has accomplished in Illinois since he was elected. If runs and wins in 2028, he could be a powerful force in turning this country around.

Last time, Trump just appointed people that were recommended to him and who could get by the Senate. Trump kept having to get rid of them whenever they refused to break the law or violate their code of ethics.

This time he's appointed nothing but people that were already lined up for the positions by Project 2025 based solely on loyalty. Since the Republicans control the senate, they all flew through with flying colors. This batch are happy to break the law for him and they have no ethics.

The only reason this guy is out is that he's an astonoshingly incompetent DUI hire.

Punching someone in the face does tend to make them hostile.

Don't worry. Someone will need you to to pick produce in a field somewhere soon.

Yep.

His slathering hordes are something to be reasonably afraid of. Also, he did nearly manage to overthrow our government and did manage to get himself reelected four years later. He may be more effective that you think.

The Democrats in office can't do shit. There are not enough of them. Democrats cannot filibuster the president's appointments because they themselves removed the filibuster rule on appointments below the level of the Supreme Court back in 2013. They could use the filibuster on some bills, but you'd have to get all of the dems to vote in lock-step like the republicans do. Good luck with that considering how many democrats are only democrats in name so they could get elected in their districts and then they vote with the republicans more often than not.

If you want change, you need to convince the republicans in office that they are going to lose their jobs. They do not support Trump because they necessarily agree with him, they do it because, as Murkowski has publicly admitted, they are afraid of him. We voters need to rally, make noise, and make them afraid of us. There are not enough MAGA voters to keep the republicans in office if enough of the rest of us actually show up to vote. We voters need to convince them that they will be out of their cushy jobs if they don't stop this lunatic.