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  • Podcast Bro Turns on Trump: ‘I Voted For None of This’

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  • That's why I'm not down on Fetterman's voters. Hell. I won't be down on them next General if the choice is him or a GQP shill. That's the thing about people like Susan Collins. At the end of the day, we have no leverage on her. She answers to the GQP, not to us. Fetterman knows he's leashed by the DNC. He is risking a lot stepping out of line. Committee assignments. Connections. After-Retirement positions. He keeps fucking around, his only play will be switching parties. Once he does that, he's not a Democrat anymore. Until then, however, he has to to deal with our pressure (and after, well, he'll have to deal with the GQP's pressure...and we'll see how much he's willing to throw away for power!)

  • Podcast Bro Turns on Trump: ‘I Voted For None of This’

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  • It is not a good faith question.

    Many people took your words to heart and sat out, voted third party, or, worst of all, voted Shitgibbon. Now, not only are we funding Israel to bomb Gaza, we're planning on starting World War 3 with Iran. Stupid is as stupid does, and this is the biggest tent of stupid in the world.

  • DOJ Describes Plan To Denaturalize Citizens on Scale That Has Never Been Tried

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  • Easiest way here is make losing citizenship a criminal charge, with the whole 'appointed lawyer' and 'burden of proof' that designation includes. That's one thing a Dem "Project 2029" should include.

  • More than 70% of Black voters disapprove of Trump - erasing 2024 gains

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  • It's a tempting theory. There are signs that there was skullduggery in the election, and it's really easy to believe there's no way Trump could have actually won. But that idea only partially survives scrutiny.

    There are several critical factors I'll point to. Let's start with the easiest. Right or wrong, an election is a referendum on the incumbent party. The Democrats did several things that enabled the idea that the GQP would somehow be better to take off. They let prices of food, housing, and energy get out of hand without even the tiniest hint of helping those impacted by that. No pushback against the billionaire class. No sense that they cared. Sure, they reduced the cost of college education by the SAVE plan, but they didn't push back when SAVE got gutted by the GQP, and even if they had, that only helps the people who went to college, and could easily be spun that the Dems only care for their base. Had there been investigations into the big food corpos, with clear communication what they were doing, maybe the GQP couldn't have successfully hung the high prices on the Dems, and the Dems MIGHT have won on by helping everyone and not just somebody seen as part of their coalition. And the idea that the Dems don't work for the common people and really only serve the donor class might not take off, either, driving Dem Voters to stay home or vote Third Party.

    The second big thing is Biden DID promise a single term and a handover to a new generation of Democrats, but he did NOTHING to actually support this. Harris was supposed to be the front-runner for the 2024 Nomination? She should have been front and centre, Biden's attack dog, doing the dirty work that Biden couldn't do thanks to the fact that there are only 24 hours in the day. He should have treated this as a Lame Duck election from the getgo. When people ask where he is, Harris should have said "Biden's doing the hard work of undoing the mess we were left by the Trump administration, and hardening the country's systems against a potential repeat in the future." What she did do was act like a nobody for the first 3 years, then suddenly, appear waiting to take over, with all his baggage and all her baggage. While I did pick her over this mess, a lot of other people didn't, and here we are.

    And finally, something I alluded to in the first point: A total lack of communication. This is a recurring and persistent problem! Biden and the Democrats let the GQP win the memetic war, like Obama did in 2010 and 2016, and like Clinton did in the 90s. Every time they get in office, they let the GQP set the messaging, and then promptly lose important elections, allowing the GQP to styme or even outright undo what the Dems did.

    You can't just ignore the Dems fault in this. The election may well have been stolen, but if the Dems don't address the above problems, it'll just keep happening.

  • Fetterman Complains He’s Missing Beach Vacation Over Vote for Bill Projected to Kill Thousands

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  • I won't wish death on the guy, but I'll put it this way. Fetterman, if you can't miss your precious beach vacation, you can always resign...

  • Woman declared brain dead being kept alive to continue pregnancy under state law, family says

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  • It's actually very easy to write Cyberpunk fiction these days. Just read the news and plot after plot after plot after plot after plot...

  • RFK Jr. Announces All Americans Need Health Tracking Devices: Here Are the Pros and Cons

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  • Indeed. I do believe that the key to better health is actionable information and a gameplan for how to maintain health. But with the Shitgibbon in office, and his merry band of miscreants running the show, I can't determine if my smartwatch will give me good readings or not, and ensure that only I get to access that data, unless I explicitly choose to let someone else access it.

  • LA protests live updates: Marines will be deployed in response to immigration protests

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  • 100% gamer chick too. I'm lucky to have her, and even as we check out girls together, I just look, because I know I have a good girl at home. :)

  • LA protests live updates: Marines will be deployed in response to immigration protests

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  • Thanks for these. They don't make it clear that Canada is a valid destination for LGBTQ+ folks to seek asylum from, but they do indicate that there is discussion in Canada. Have to see how the referenced cases go, though.

  • LA protests live updates: Marines will be deployed in response to immigration protests

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  • Just like the 1930s. By the time countries will open their doors to the oppressed in the USA, we'll be rolling our own ovens here.

  • LA protests live updates: Marines will be deployed in response to immigration protests

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  • My google-fu hasn't up to this point. In fact, I get lots of results saying that Americans are not welcome as asylum seekers in my googling. Your single link only shows places that take American immigrants, not places welcoming American refugees. In fact, New Zealand is suffering from a Conservative-inflicted recession that is making things difficult for immigrants and natives alike, and Australia has some serious restrictions on immigrants (a close friend of mine did that route and barely made the cut). And Canada? Despite a victory for the Liberal Party and 'elbows up' regarding American rhetoric, they still have lots of people angry about how immigration has been handled.

    If you actually have links to help get victimised people out of the USA, maybe instead of 'why don't u google it urself', maybe post those links. That's FAR more helpful than the whole 'go do it urself!' response. :)

  • LA protests live updates: Marines will be deployed in response to immigration protests

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  • Or do something they don't agree with. Like marrying a Black bisexual pagan woman.

  • LA protests live updates: Marines will be deployed in response to immigration protests

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  • Links, please? I haven't seen anything suggesting that, yet.

    I'm probably OK. I'm straight. I'm White. Though I am agnostic and don't buy the State Religion behind Project 2025.

    My wife, however, is Black, Bisexual, and Pagan, four strikes, and now I'm a race traitor for having married her, so there's my strike.

  • Latinas for Trump founder says mass deportation agenda is ‘not what we voted for’

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  • My message to Garcia?

    Yes. Yes you did, you stupid cow. This is exactly what you voted for, Garcia. Lock, stock, and barrel. You are a fucking moron and now, only as the leopard eats YOUR face, do you realise how stupid you were.

    You voted for this. 100%. Now fuck off and take it while we try to reverse the slide into authoritarianism you voted for. Maybe next time you won't be so fucking stupid!

    Stupid is as stupid does.

  • LA protests live updates: Marines will be deployed in response to immigration protests

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  • So...how close are we to that point where other countries open their doors to us under asylum laws? I mean, Trump's siccing the military on people and it's not even 6 months into his term yet.

  • Now that Musk has turned his chainsaw on Trump, what happens to all the government data he accessed?

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  • Indeed. I stand by my original comments saying that this is a huge distraction. partial_accumen is here to proclaim loudly to the world that I'm TALKING TOO MUCH ABOUT HOW TRUMP IS PULLING A FAST ONE, and meanwhile, what's Trump doing? Nationalising the National Guard to implement martial law in blue cities that don't appreciate his bullshit.

    Like I said. The Musk bullshit was entertainment, designed to distract us from what's really going on -- the imposition of Project 2025. The eradication of our civil liberties. Sending the military against those of us that dare stand up to Hair Fuehrer. The establishment of a right-wing dictatorship. Thread after thread after thread is coverage of the Trump-Musk bullshit distraction event. And rather than make that the central part of his complaint, ol' partial_accumen decides the better idea is to get me to shut up about the distractification going on here. Seriously, that's the thing he's worried about?

  • Now that Musk has turned his chainsaw on Trump, what happens to all the government data he accessed?

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  • And no one is stopping you from moving on to other comments you agree with, but here we are.

  • Now that Musk has turned his chainsaw on Trump, what happens to all the government data he accessed?

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  • What happens to the data Musk took? I guarantee you it's already being sliced and diced by the powers that be that have put on this show for us. Before you get your hope up that things are gonna change, I want to give you a quote from Macbeth for you to remember.

    "It is a tale told by an idiot. Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

    We're just being kept 'entertained' so they can get on with the business of robbing us blind and making us fight each other.

  • Bannon Promises ‘Punk’ Musk: ‘I’m Going to Rip Your F***ing Face Off’

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  • Yep. Don't lose sight of the ball. They're trying to pull a fast one on us.