Yeah, the Establishment Dems are nearly as pissed off as the MAGAs. If the Nazis come for Zohran, don’t expect the Dems to offer any help.

Smells like Ax body spray

Hey, Dad! Check it out, I finally got a real job!..Uh, what’s “Counter-Terrorism” mean?

Yeah, the Iranian government will probably just take it as the prank it was meant to be. Just boys being boys! No need to get revenge.

/S, dummy.

No impeachments until they know they can get a conviction in the Senate, which is highly unlikely.

Besides, an impeachment only makes Peter Theil (Vance’s leash holder) the president, then we’re out of the frying pan and into the fire.

Transpeople and their supporters are falling into a trap set by the MAGA Nazis. They know that by constantly forcing the issue to the forefront, it forces Democrats to defend it, and it not only costs votes and makes them look extreme, but it keeps them from discussing issues that will earn them votes.

FIRST Rule of Politics - Get Elected. If it doesn’t get you elected, doesn’t attract votes, a campaign has to be ruthless and talk about something else. This is important: It doesn’t mean you don’t have support, it means that other issues are stronger vote attractors, and that’s what counts in an election. Vote for the candidate/party that is more likely to be sympathetic to your cause, even if they don’t talk about it, and you know that isn’t going to be Republicans. But don’t withhold your vote from a Dem candidate just because they didn’t make your specific issue their top priority. It doesn’t mean it isn’t important to them, it just means that other things are more likely to get votes. You certainly aren’t going to get what you want from MAGA Nazis.

I’m not a neo-liberal, I’m not even a Democrat, I’ve been an Unaffiliated Independent for nearly 50 years. I have a son with numerous trans friends whom I love and respect. I am way on your side. But this a WAR, and to achieve your objectives, sometimes you have to sneak up on the enemy. Running directly into the line of fire is not the way to win.

Your real battle is with health care. We need to have universal health care in this country, and when we finally do, there is going to be a war over things with a sexual/gender component like contraception, abortion, and trans health. Fight for health care first, and then you can fight to be included in that, and that will get you much of what you really need most.

I’m not saying those people aren’t important, I’m saying they shouldn’t be the highest priority when deciding which issues to highlight during a presidential campaign. Sure, transpeople need our support, but their issue personally affects a far smaller segment of the population than an issue like healthcare, which affects literally EVERYBODY.

The First Rule of Politics is Get Elected, and that means highlighting the issues that will bring you the most votes. Once elected, then you can do whatever you want to help whoever you want. If you are one of those people who needs that sort of support (not just transfolk), then focus more on what it will take to get your advocates into power, instead of just using the campaign to highlight your own personal issues. Get your people elected, and then pressure them to help you.

This is what politics is, and why it often gets smarmy in practice, but that’s the game. If you want to win, you have to play it.

Despite the opposition, you are correct. We need to focus on issues that will win elections, not issues that affect a miniscule minority. The best help for those people is a government that will support them, so they have to understand that getting out of the way, and allowing their supporters to get elected is the best thing they can do.

If transgender people and their supporters want action, then stop demanding that the focus be on them, and support other Democratic issues that will lead to getting elected. THEN they can advocate for their rights with people who will actually listen.

This reminds me of the Zebra Mussels in Lake Erie. In the 80s and 90s, invasive Zebra Mussels got into Lake Erie, and started spreading quickly. They would cover the surfaces of everything. They were afraid that they would eventually clog up the water inlet that supply drinking water to the region.

There was a near panic among government leaders for several years, as the mussels grew out of control, and no solution could be found. They even announced a contest with a significant reward if anyone could come up with a solution, but nobody could. So the problem increased.

Lake Erie is the shallowest of the Great Lakes, so pollution and organic matter tends to concentrate there, making it very murky, and impossible to see. But the stuff in the water was food to the Zebra Mussels, and the population kept filtering the water, feeding.

Eventually, the population reached a level that the water was clearing up, allowing the sun to penetrate deeper into the water. It turns out that Zebra Mussels don’t like the sun, and between that, and the decreasing amount of food in the water, their breeding slowed significantly. Now they seemed to have reached a good balance. They aren’t going away, but they aren’t the existential threat that they once were either.

The best news is that since the water is much clearer now, it has caused an increase in scuba diving. Being the shallowest of the Great Lakes, Erie has also known over the centuries as a bad lake to be on in a storm, and there are many shipwrecks on the bottom. They were hard to dive on in the old, dirty water days, but today those wrecks are visible, and attracting diving tourists.

So all they had to do was nothing, and the Zebra Mussels problem fixed itself, and caused a new business segment to boom.

He doesn’t, but he takes advice from trade expert Peter Navarro, who has written many books, crediting the groundbreaking work on trade and tariffs by renowned expert Ron Varo (Navarro).

Yep, Trump’s trade expert’s best source for information is just making it up himself. It’s all just imaginary, wishful thinking. Stupid people think they can just wish their fantasies into reality.

Whatever, still not a country.

I’ve got a good friend from Venezuela who got her citizenship last December. She thinks that makes her safe, but I worry about her. These people don’t even respect birthright citizenship, they aren’t going to respect new citizens, especially from a nation they’ve decided to demonize.

Basically, if you were born somewhere else, they want you out.

Palestine isn’t a country, or you can bet it would have been on the list.

"I hate that guy!”

Of course, all MAGAs are traitors.

They didn’t, they just supported illegal immigration because it gave them low wage workers that they could exploit in their pollution factories. To some shallow political thinkers, that’s the equivalent of a Democratic position, and if you have one Democratic position, even if it is blatantly self-serving, it means you’re a Democrat.

Like Kamala did?

The Dems would rather wait until enough Republicans get fed up with the MAGA Nazi incompetence enough to vote Democrat, than actually be a true opposition, or leftist, party.