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softlynow

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  1. Democrats and democracy are fucked anyway, so might as well not come down on the side of evil and agree with GOP hysterics meant to further marginalize minority groups. Just going to have to do right by our neighbors until the bloody end, if need be. The only way out of this is a near total collapse of the established order. The electorate is hopelessly addicted to an integrated social and legacy media monster fully weaponized by our tech oligarchs to ensure a government friendly to their every whim, and willing to shovel tax dollars into their pockets. And there's no allied western liberal army crossing an ocean to save us from ourselves.
  2. I think the obvious answers are that was Dave the body double, and of course no one was worried about a dead body. The plan was to shoot Dave up a little more, then roll out "intact" Dotard 3 days later as the second coming. Terrible shooter fucked it up, and they improvised. SS wasn't concerned over Dave getting killed, just nailing their roles.
  3. Stormtroopers that can't hit shit, now where have I seen that before?
  4. Are you sure it's not a bit?
  5. This cracks me up because I was literally lol when the notification popped up on screen. So if this is a bit, well done!
  6. Shouldn't a bit be even the tiniest bit entertaining? Sure seems more like a troll. Not saying he should be banned or get a TO. Futureman should be disturbed by the comparison.
  7. Yep. Being impressed at him winning re-election is akin to marveling at the Globetrotter's W/L record. Same goes for every statewide official in Texas, once they're past their first primary.
  8. Good to see Surly has its picking nits in midsession form before we even get to week 1. It’s an exaggeration, and you missed the point with this silly side argument. I’m sure the Epstein scandal will take down Dotard any day now.
  9. Yeah. We don’t get to a purge mentality without a Great Depression/civil War level event. If the GOP for some reason doesn’t understand they’ve jailbroken the system and actually allows for elections they end up losing, any Dem regime will just be more of the same delaying action we’ve seen since Reagan. Many comparisons to the rise of Hitler have been made, but it might be better to think that we’re in about 1857 of this particular disaster cycle. Maybe even 1853. It hasn’t gotten bad enough to believe we can heal anytime soon. Of course a broader view of history points to authoritarian and oligarchic control being the default in most countries. We’ve been spoiled by humanistic progress, and maybe we’re just reverting to the mean. It certainly doesn’t feel like a real resistance is forming. Just ticking boxes, as RomaVicta put it, along with influencer grifting.
  10. What made Watergate work was 1. a Democratically controlled Congress 2. news media that didn't need to move on to something new to maintain ratings and drive clicks and 3. a SC that wasn't hopelessly partisan and corrupt. Trump could walk into a subcommittee meeting and shoot Jasmine Crockett in the back of the head and nothing would change. I get the sense that a cratering economy might be a real problem for Dotard, but only if it actually hurt the bottom line of our oligarchy.
  11. 1 of 2 things. Either we've already seen the last free election in our lifetimes or Dems will squeak back into power in a few years and we'll get the spiritual successor to Biden's term.
  12. Ah, so you want me to prove something that wasn't really my main point. Instead defend a well-known bit of conventional wisdom. OK. Sure. Let me google that for you: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/05/29/bluesky-has-caught-on-with-many-news-influencers-but-x-remains-popular/ From the link:
  13. If your point is posts on BS are evidence of a conversation outside of the Dem ecosystem, you have yet to support that point. Your second paragraph is an attack of my timeline, which is nonsensical. I'm in the Dem ecosystem. Of course I saw that, and knew it was coming. My experience online is irrelevant to the quesiton of whether normies and centrists are still fired up about #PedoPresident. So is yours.
  14. I'm not someone lacking wide-ranging sources of information. I check my BS feed every now and again to see who god "destroyed" today in some breathless post about something that would've ended a pols career just a few years ago, but barely lingers til the afternoon now. BS doesn't permeate our culture the way Twitter and Facebook do. It's mostly Dems talking to each other, with a heavy slant towards activist and progressive types. Folks who think the Epstein story is doing anything but fading fast are fooling themselves. This story came out today: Judge denies release of Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury transcripts. Lot of discussion about it, right?
  15. He's going to realize the electrified fence is turned off here pretty soon. I haven't figured out if he'll do the coronation in his new Gold House, or down at Mar-a-Lago.
  16. You mean the Dem echo chamber? meh.
  17. Troops marching down American city streets is enough for the media to fully move on. That's going to be great video for the networks.
  18. It's not like being good at public speaking matters anymore. As long as he gets 1 or 2 of the sound bites they want out of his mouth and into the echo chamber, it was a successful media appearance.
  19. For starters, tan suits, spicy mustard and too much melanin. You know, shit worse than child rape.
  20. The problem is too many people are squeemish about such tactics, and it's never going to happen. Even if it did, you'd probably end up with a third party and a GOP supermajority of . . . everything. On the other hand, they're basically governing like that already, so why not take that shot?
  21. I am as well, at least in urban areas. The GQP has been testing the electrified fence, and doesn't seem to realize SCOTUS has turned it off. If they were smart, and not just depraved, they would've rescinded early voting in the 10 largest counties, because reasons, and been prepared to fast track a challenge on that to 6 of 9. They'll eventually get there, or somewhere as nefariously effective. In that vein, I have no confidence that the 24th amendment would be enforced.
  22. Considering the timeline we're on, we'll probably get Total Recall boobies.
  23. Relatedly, while I get that we will continue to start every sporting event all the way down to kids baseball games and swim meets with the SSB, why the fuck are we still having to endure the shittastic God Bless America during 7th inning stretches?
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