dhork @ dhork @lemmy.world

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This is the way

He's such a stupid mother fucker.

In this case, quite literally. He has had at least 14 documented children with multiple women, and there are rumors of plenty of others.

It must be humiliating to be told "go fuck yourself" in 150 different languages

You're not wrong, but the Democratic Primary is not set up to pick the best candidate. It's set up to coronate the one who is next in line.

When Obama won in 2008, it was actually an aberration. The party made sure to fix it in 2016, when thet shut down the old Socialist's campaign in order to coronate the first woman President. How did that turn out?

If there were a primary in 2024, they would have put their finger on the scale again to pre-nominate someone. The only open question would have been if they were compelled to nominate someone without a penis again. It seems too many voters see having a penis as a requirement for the job. So if it came down to the quasi-incumbent, penis-lacking VP against an individual experienced, penis-having contender, then it might have an actual contest.

Sure, but that "genuinely popular candidate" may still have been Harris, or even worse, Gavin Newsom. Even though neither would have won the Lemmy Primary ...

"Why should we listen to them if they're so moody?"

Jesus Christ

Was a brown-skinned Palestinian Jew. If He were among us today, Trump would deport Him.

As far as these survivors are concerned, they are going about it all the wrong way. Instead of paying lawyers, they should start (very publically) saying they start a GoFundMe, and if the Administration rules in their favor, they will donate all the funds to the Trump Presidential Library for a hangar for the Qatari Air Force One, but only if they get a favorable ruling. Who's gonna stop them?

Although it is unsigned, the two usual suspects wrote a dissent. I guess we should be lucky that all of Trump's appointees are not as consistently wrong-headed as Thomas and Alito.

Maybe once God forces one of them off the court, their replacement won't be quite as bad ...

.... Who am I kidding, we're gonna get Emil Bove or Alina Habba or some other young moron who will make even dumber rulings for the next 40 years.

It's definitely something you can learn in just a few lessons, particularly if you are just driving around town here and there. There's a rhythm and muscle memory to it, and once you get it, it becomes super easy.

I think I traded in my last stick-shift (a Jetta) 13+ years ago, and there are still times when I am driving and my left foot instinctively moves toward an invisible clutch....

It's possible that this time is different.

Trump's budget will absolutely bust the deficit, because it relies on "savings" from DOGE that doesn't exist, and uses that to cut taxes further. There is at least token opposition from these folks who have campaigned on reducing the deficit and know their party is lying about it.

But let's face it. It is more likely that this is all just performative. These guys hold things up just long enough to get some token concessions, and they can campaign on the fact that they "stand up" to both sides.

Hey, the Nuge isn't dead yet, it could have been him

obligatory xkcd#37 link

Are you saying Kid Rock is a Big Ass-Honky Tonk?

But, unfortunately, these overgrown children have endless wealth.

Not only that, but in the US, the Supreme Court has ruled that money in political campaigns is a form of speech, and can't be regulated like it used to.

So while we have freedom of speech here, those overgrown children have much more speech than the average person.

I never understood the problem with what Hogg is doing. No politician should ever think their seat is safe. Every primary should be contested. If the incumbant is doing a good job, they will win, and the party gets behind them. But if the incumbent loses a primary, then they were probably not doing a good job to begin with.

What's wrong with that?

Y'all Qaeda

You are overlooking the most valuable thing that Newsom has, that makes him even more qualified to earn enough votes to win: a penis.

Unfortunately, if you don't have one, you can't get elected right now.

Ladies and Gentlemen, our 48th President (whether we want him or not)...

Furthermore, they are trying to make use of the precedent that a prior plane used as Air Force One was donated to Reagan's library. But that was done after new planes were in use, and it went there as a museum piece.

He was very familiar with that "drained of hope" look because many of his ex-girlfriends had that same look