Vis a vis Trump, comparisons of this sort are effectively meaningless. He doesn’t actually have any real policy principles that he stands by other than maximizing the amount of money he can gather, staying out of jail, and acting like a mafia don. Dude’s a straight fascist, amongst many other terrible things. Juxtaposing him with serious politicians in this fashion is essentially sanewashing him. It’s disingenuous, and actively harmful to our electoral process and democracy, to not call a fascist a fascist.

Care to explain what you mean by that?

If I lived in Texas - or really, any purple or red state - I’d be checking my voter registration status every fucking week from now until the election.

Gay computers: they’ll make your floppy… not.

I mean, I rotate between games, shows, and series. But then again I’m a millennial on the wrong side of 35, so get off my lawn, you goddamn hooligans

Well, I blame your mother.

That is precisely what my username is referencing :) and I love it when people recognize it in the wild!

And yeah, I too was crestfallen when he passed :(

Edit: whoever downvoted you is an asshole. Like… why?

• lots of negative blowback: “it was a joke!”
• not that much negative blowback, at least initially: “yeah I meant that”

Right?

Picking him as AG was absolutely baffling to me at the time, and it’s panned out to be perhaps the worst pick in the entirety of the Biden administration. Like, genuinely, the only worse play off the top of my head would have been to just keep Bill Barr around.

The way she, her party, and her campaign conduct themselves make it hard to avoid the conclusion that she’s running purely as a Democratic spoiler candidate (that is, with the intent of siphoning support away from the Democratic candidate).

Edit: to be clear, I am a staunch supporter of environmentalist causes in general. I just don’t believe the Green Party actually is an environmentalist cause at the end of the day. I judge these things by actions, not by policy documents.

Not to mention, the temporal proximity of this “assassination attempt” to the Roberts SCOTUS leak is, shall we say… suspicious.

Hey, I’ll say it: if my one of my sisters or my partner was murdered like this (and it absolutely fucking is murder when you withhold lifesaving care from someone because your imaginary friend told you to) due to bureaucratic idiocy and political culture war bullshit, I’d probably decide domestic terrorism against the people who made those rules was a great idea, and, you know, do the things that follow logically from that conclusion.

This is the dynamic these imbeciles are creating. They are playing with fire, amongst many other things. It’s only a matter of time before someone’s grief and fury at the death of their family member is forged into a weapon aimed at the heart of these fucking Nationalist Christians.

I Feel like this joke went over a lot of peoples heads

It’s admittedly a touch tin foil hatty, but I wouldn’t be completely shocked if this ends up being some elaborate hoax to distract from the Roberts SCOTUS memo leak. “Smoke screen the crazy with more crazy” was one of the Trump admin’s go-to strategies, after all.

Heterosectional weirdo. Specificity is important.

Eh, don’t care. Literally everything and anything weird or gross about trump is fair game. Dude is a psychopathic fascist pedophile. There are court cases about it that were only dismissed (correction) dropped because he threatened to murder the families of the girls involved. Don’t be an apologist for that.

Considering that this happened shortly after the SCOTUS Roberts leak, that theory is far from crazy. The “drown the crazy with more crazy” tactic was the Trump admin’s go-to tactic for basically the entire term.

Ngl I wish someone had taught the guy proper fieldcraft. You don’t expose your barrel from a hide.

Accountability? For republicans? You must be new here.

The peace talks are DOA for the reasons stated quite clearly in the article. And frankly, this should surprise absolutely nobody. The proposals were demonstrably not serious, nor made in good faith - again, for reasons stated quite clearly in the article.