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One of the few things that he understands is to accuse other people of exactly what he’s being accused of. If Trump gets called a threat to democracy, he’s going to accuse Biden of being “the real threat to democracy”.

It’s from Steve Bannon’s playbook called “cover the field in shit”, and it stops low-informed voters from easily determining what’s going on, as it plays into a prevailing narrative that all politicians lie. It’s brilliant, it’s wicked, and it’s quickly pushing us towards fascism.

Gay billionaire knows his people are the billionaires, not the gays.

Only the poors think about cultural conflict, the rich know we’ve got a class-based war a-raging, and the score’s not even close. The rich are the one’s stoking the cultural conflicts as a ruse to keep the onslaught on the poors out of sight.

The state’s Republican governor, Jeff Landry, signed into law last month a bill that requires all classrooms, in K-12 public schools and colleges, to have Ten Commandments posters with “large, easily readable font”.

Given that Louisiana is 47th in the country for education, it’d be laughable if it weren’t so sad that the governor’s only reading-based concerns are “can they read the Bible laws?”

He doesn’t want to take responsibility for any of his actions, even the ones he hasn’t taken yet.

If racists weren’t dumb as hell, they wouldn’t be racist.

Nothing’s dumber than hating people for something they didn’t choose and were born with (gender identity, sexuality, skin color…etc.)

JD Vance in a bathtub stream for the Gen Z vote?

Don’t forget the queers. They’re going for the rainbow folk too this time.

Hopefully this means that we can get him via a prison swap now.

A disturbing amount of western products are made using (what is essentially) slave labor. The US government maintains a list, but it’s got everything from bananas to bricks and brassware (and that’s just the B’s).

A network of ultrawealthy Christian donors is spending nearly $12 million to mobilize Republican-leaning voters and purge more than a million people from the rolls in key swing states, aiming to tilt the 2024 election in favor of former President Donald Trump

Ah Democracy, when Christian business owners get to throw voters off the voting rolls by the millions.

Or at least, this is what our Supreme Court has decided our democracy should look like. We need to elect politicians who are willing to legislate us out of citizens united!

Did they merge Belarus and Ukraine on this map? Also Poland’s out here trying to be American.

“I refuse to keep doing the same things my predecessors did,” O’Brien said in a speech that criticized both parties. “Today the Teamsters are here to say we are not beholden to anyone or any party. We will create an agenda and work with a bipartisan coalition ready to accomplish something real for the American worker.”

Too cowardly to even admit he’s a conservative. I’m sure he’ll be speaking at the DNC too.

You can polish a turd, but it remains a turd

A movement which sees affinity in strong-man governments around the world. They view Putin (or Orban/ Kim / Xi, and even Modi now) as a model for what they’d like to bring about domestically.

Single party rule, sometimes with the facade of an opposition party. This is their end goal.

Mary Xjimenez, a spokesperson for the state corrections department, said in an email that the woman was transported to a medical facility on Thursday and died on Saturday and that the “death appears to be the result of an ongoing medical condition and not heat-related, but will be determined by the coroner’s office”. Tyson Pogue, the local sheriff-coroner, said it was too soon to say whether the death was due to heat and his office would conduct an autopsy.

Honestly, I’d rather Bobo get the seat than a Republican who may actually be able to legislate their awful beliefs. Boebert is a clown, but in the grand scheme of things, she’s a pretty ineffective member of Congress. Only 3 of her introduced bills have passed the House.

She may generate sound clips for the right wing media machine, but they seem to be able to generate endless hate porn without much want or worry. I don’t think Lauren is their golden goose, laying gilded shits.

So on balance, Bobo taking up a deep R seat isn’t the worst outcome.

Author Stephen King would write his own form of penitence for Howard’s death, as well. Two years after his murder, an eerie recreation appeared in King’s 1986 novel It, in which three homophobic teenagers throw a young gay man over a bridge and into the same stream, where he’s set upon and murdered by the novel’s antagonist, a shape-shifting embodiment of fear named Pennywise.

TIL It had some basis in (a tragic bit of) reality

These people have such a hard-on for a civil war. Anytime anything doesn’t go exactly their way, their first response is “let’s call for the bloodiest conflict in US history again!”

This has got to be some terminal state of being an ammosexual

“I’m not someone that is able to say how will be the outcome of American elections,” Scholz responded. “But I think it would be a big mistake to underestimate the president. He is successful in doing the necessary things, for instance, in organizing the NATO alliance.”

He’s talking about Biden’s electability using his work in NATO as an example. There’s dozens of examples of domestic things that Biden’s successfully done in his first term that prove he was an effective president.

That has nothing to do with him being able to do the job for another 4 years, or his ability to convince the electorate that he’s up for the job.

The Trump admin isn’t planning to deport the few dozen Swedes overstaying their visas. I actually don’t think they wouldn’t mind boats of white pilgrims landing here today.