Anyone with half a brain could see how big of a threat to democracy and rule of law Trump was in 2016

Anyone with half a brain could see how big a threat to democracy and rule of law Alberto Gonzales was in 2006. It’s fucking surreal to see people brag about this endorsement.

What’s next? Is John Yoo going to take a hiatus from crushing children’s testicles to weigh in favorably for Harris? Can we get Lynndie England’s endorsement, while we’re at it? Fucking wild how people have completely forgotten the congo line of war criminals parading through the Bush Administration 16 years ago.

Is that bigger or smaller than an H3? I haven’t seen one on the road since Hummer went bust.

If you’ve got a two-income household and the worksites are in opposite directions, its pretty normal.

This week, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) stunned safety advocates by proposing new vehicle rules that it says will help reduce pedestrian deaths in America. The new rules appear aimed directly at the trend of increasingly massive SUVs and trucks, which have been shown to be more deadly to pedestrians than smaller and midsize vehicles.

This will be really cool if it survives the SCOTUS war on the administrative state.

You monster.

Eating dogs, you say?

She was literally on the Subcommittee for Border Security. Jesus, you fucking people.

Police: points at conservative “We have ample evidence to support the theory that he’s been doing all of the crimes. All of them. Every last one in the book. Just crime after crime, every day, their entire adult lives.”

Civilian Bystander: “Wow, officer. That’s crazy. Do you plan on arresting him?”

Police: “No, and you’re under arrest for asking stupid questions. Now, where’s your dog so I can shoot it?”

State Attorney General? Senator? Vice President?

No one outside of the donor’s circle liked Biden.

No one inside the donor’s circle liked Biden. That’s why his fundraising tanked out in those last months. Kamala’s surge in donations was in large part the mega-donor class sitting on their wallets until Biden was ushered off the ticket.

He was a chump block to the progressives & the left

He was a chump block to keep Bernie off the ticket in 2020. But there was no real risk of a Berniecrat running for office in 2024. The party has been moving steadily to the right since Carter and spent this primary cycle knocking out any half-decent progressive without a seven figure war chest.

Now he’s just dead weight. Everyone is happy he’s gone.

The old rope-a-dope strategy. Put out an old feeble conservative democrat to lull the opponent into a false sense of security. Let the conservative opposition nominate a dog-eating couch-fucker as VP. Then yank the geriatric coot off stage and replace him with someone 30 years younger and normal looking who can string a full sentence together without drooling.

Rock bottom expectations are fully exceeded. Right-wing oppo strategists are sent scrambling for a new messaging game. The median American voter fully forgets these two people were part of the same administration and excitedly claps at the jangling keys.

Not since Reagan cut a deal with the Ayatollah of Iran has any presidential candidate so effortlessly hoodwinked their rivals. Truly a master class in winning elections. We hope.

Gardevoir

Sleeping with your Gardevoir: Fine, normal, cool.

Sleeping with your Ralts:

Propaganda is an effective tool for shaping public opinion. It has far less to do with the gullibility of the individual and far more to do with the sheer volume and homogeneity of the message being espoused in the community.

If everyone on TV is chanting the same message, everyone in your town is raised with the same educational orthodoxy, and every social medium promotes the same message, you’re going to be under enormous social pressure to accept the catechism as delivered.

It’s just a back-door technique for wealth transfer. Raise tariffs on imports, under the guise of being friendly to domestic business. Then lower income taxes on those same businesses, so the state can continue to defund public services and deregulate industry. Go to war on migrants, minorities, and other disadvantaged laborers in order to guarantee a domestic stock of second-class citizens. And use all that to depress wages and consolidate capital stocks in the country.

When you run out of domestic natural resources, you send your press-ganged youth military abroad to stake claims on neighboring soil, press gang more working people into the prison industrial complex, and loot the industrial machinery to be transferred to your friends on the inside.

It’s imperialism at home. Otherwise known as… fascism.

Disinterested voters didn’t watch.

It was a highly entertaining debate. Plenty of folks who dislike them both showed up with big bowls of popcorn to root for injuries. And Trump was true to form, just stepping into rake after rake for the full 90 minutes.

A few Republicans I know said they were going to vote libertarian or just not vote

Very funny that he is straight up Biden-ing himself.

He’s been able to borrow against them for some time. Someone is already holding the bag.

In both cases the outcome was overwhelmingly a result of Republican obstructionism

Democrats claiming they need 60 votes to do anything are as big a pack of liars as Republicans claiming Unitary Executive is a thing.

These are institutions that are hostile to a majority black state.

The Senate confirmed 3 seats in July 2021 and 2 seats in May 2022, and nothing since.

Crazy. Who is the Senate Majority Leader right now?

Because the left typically aren’t autocratic.

You don’t need an autocracy to have a functional postal service.

This is Republicans taking advantage of a weak liberal institution, not leftists declining to become tyrants.