Andy @ andrewrgross @slrpnk.net

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Did you not read the graph? She's a lock.

I mean, Kelly is a lock too. Anyone who can fog a mirror and doesn't get an erection watching Starship Troopers will win this election. But Harris is kind of right there already, so that works for me. She could probably keep using the same email address and business cards. That's a nice plus.

Just to be clear: this post is my way of endorsing Kamala.

Harris 2024! I'll certainly end up protesting something terrible she does, but when I do I will very much enjoy not being rounded up by the Department of Homeland Security for it.

You got me. I confess: I have a bias against hitlers.

Yasss.... queen?

First: I don't get to vote in presidential elections (I'm a Californian).

Second, Biden isn't going to be on the ballot in November.

Yeah, but you can tell his heart isn't really in it.

He's weak sauce even when he's trying to hitler.

I've actually been casting him as VP in my head for like four weeks now.

I think it's more likely than Biden being president next year, so fingers crossed.

I didn't say young. I said he is "somehow alive".

I thought about something like that, but the flow here felt easier.

Feel free to make another version. If it's more popular, I won't be mad.

Great video. I love this.

This is actually a misrepresentation of the law.

The law bans school districts from requiring teachers to report if students start experimenting with different pronouns.

Teachers can still report this to parents. There is nothing barring them from doing so. The only change is that they aren't policed by their school district.

Technically, this is actually the classically conservative position!

This whole thing is extremely stupid. Parents should take care of their own shit. You want to know what your kid is thinking? Talk to them. Demanding that the trusted adults in their lives who DO pay attention to them narc for you is a weak-ass move for parents who run to the nanny state to help them raise their kids because they don't know how to manage their own damn family life.

Oh man... this conflict is so, so, SO hard to watch or bear. It's so hard to process this kind of devastation.

Sometimes I feel kind of numb (like right now), and other times it gives me nightmares. Both are unpleasant. Even though they certainly don't compare at all to actually living through all this in Gaza.

Why must we divide the tribe? I don't know how leftist who can't identify as such plans to exercise collective power. But you do you.

That's a leftist. You're a leftist, buddy.

I relate a bit, though. I think it's cringe when socialists call each other "comrade".

People joke about the shooter "missing", but at a few hundred feet away, a 2" miss is clearly within the influence of wind.

Trump got extremely lucky. I don't think this was the result of a poor shot.

It'll be interesting to see how he responds to this. I think an appropriate message would be something like, 'This is terrible: assassinations only weaken democracy, and so no matter how great the threat Trump poses, his defeat must be electoral.'

To quote Dubya, I don't think Biden "does nuance". I doubt he's equipped. Perhaps this big event will give him an excuse to exist the race and say it's because of something other than the debate performance.

That's a great point: I'm not saying that you have to draw them a footbath. Sometimes violence is necessary. But it's gotta be part of a larger strategy to remove their sources of power. Domestically, direct physical street confrontations and assassinations seem to usually belie a lack of larger strategic goal.

Yeah, on reflection, I agree.

Fair. If you've got better terms, let me know. My point is that I think it would be silly to worry that the guy who tried to assassinate a fascist is going to make peaceful, non-violent antifa activists look bad. Using violence to fight fascism is the name of the game, right?

To be clear, I'm not hating on antifa. It's a strategy, and I don't like to fight with allies over tactics. But I think it's silly to be engaged in violent struggle and worry about the bad press of being associated with violent struggle.

You know what? I guess that's fair.

I guess we'll likely see.