A lot of people were pushing the meme that Harris was worse somehow than Trump, and that they’d stay home or vote third party because nothing Trump could do would be worse than what Harris and the Democrats were doing RE: Gaza.
Gaza is now being slated for demolition and rebuilding by a shyster and shithead, and Israel is escalating its war, while Ukraine is now left hanging in the breeze. All thanks to those people.
Good job, people. You made it worse.
…when we get in the way of his dream of total power and control.
Not enough people realise this fact. It’s not Free Speech. It’s Freeze Peach, which is defined as only allowing adoration for the cult.
As well they should be. It’s not the individual cabinet member, or the voting for shitty right-wing immigration laws, or giving Trump cover with his budget bill. It’s all this put together. Schumer and ilk don’t give two shits about standing up for what’s right. They want to coast to those cushy post-election jobs. If the cost to getting progressives into office is these shitheads get cushy lobbying jobs, I’m fine with that, as long as the Progressives turn away from the cashola and represent us while thumbing Trump and the Republicans in the eyes…hard.
I’m going to take a different tact here, just based on interactions with Canadians.
My Canadian friends know that I’m not a Trump supporter. They know that I have wanted to get out of the US for years now, and that I think the US has gone to shit and is now overrun by fascists. But that doesn’t mean they can exempt me from the hurt they need to put on the US. That’s not how it works. They’ve got to hit the USA back where it hurts, and that means in the pocketbook. And that means we all are in the brawl. They line up shoulder to shoulder and go elbows up because solidarity is where it’s at when your former buddies from across the way punch you in the face unexpectedly. What I don’t understand is how Americans could have expected Canadians to just roll over and take it. I mean, the Canadian national sport is Hockey, where going ‘elbows up’ is something you can expect on a regular basis. And we’re now in the virtual equivalent of a Hockey brawl (and can be in a very real one if we dare think we can just invade – last time we did that, they burned down the White House!).
31% of American voters aren’t the only people who need to suffer, either. You’re counting the 77m people who voted Trump in that number, and pointing out that 75m voted Harris. Well, what about the 2m who voted third part and the 90m+ people who stayed home? Doncha think those people have some responsibility for Trump? And how exactly are the Canadians and Europeans supposed to know which group you are part of? You say you voted Harris, but you can’t prove that (and shouldn’t want to with the rise of Fascism). You could be a closet Trump supporter that just SAYS you are a Harris supporter, and nobody would know better.
So, in summary, yes. As a Harris voter, you are gonna have to feel the heat from Canada and Europe and the rest of the civilised world. They can’t avoid targeting you when they target the entire USA. You’re an American, and right now, they have to worry about their people and not the fraction of the USA that voted to stay sane. The best they can do is try to rescue the ‘good’ Americans, but right now, even that’s a step too far because American economics has infected them to the point that they can’t even house their own populace. So, rather than getting mad at Canadians and Europeans, let’s get mad at the real perps here, the shitgibbon and his merry band of miscreants and everyone who enabled that bunch of assholes by voting for them, voting third party, or staying home.
It really depends on what the purpose of voter ID is.
If it’s to ensure that everyone that is entitled to vote votes once and only once, you’ll see some key properties. It’ll be free and easy to get. Applying for it is as simple as applying to vote (which itself will be easy to do), and it’ll be virtually automatic that you get it. In many cases, it’ll arrive unannounced as the Government already knows everything it needs to get you this card, and you won’t have to do anything but show up at the polls election day with the card they gave you.
If it’s to ensure that only ‘desirable’ voters can vote, it’ll have other key properties. Getting it will be as easy as the above if you’re the preferred class. But if you’re the undesirable class of voter, getting it will have more hassles than its worth. It’ll cost money. It’ll have onerous requirements. It’ll take you lots of time, and require transportation. It’ll be designed to discourage you from voting. Because that’s the goal. Onerous enough that you give up and let your betters rule you like God intended.
Can you guess what the United States’ goal with voter ID is? Here’s a hint. We have a long history of treating certain groups of people like crap, and despite 1865’s end of the Civil War, there are STILL people who would rather see Black people in chains and treated like animals.
What the shitgibbon calls things should be reported on, then promptly countered, so his bullshit can’t get embedded in the zeitgeist.
We also need more news sites. If you think you can do a better job reporting the news than the Guardian, than by all means, please do so, and do what you think is best. Because the only way we’ll get past this is by holding Master Mould Shitgibbon and his merry band of miscreants’ multiple fuckups to the light in as many ways as possible.
Sorry not sorry for not engaging in the shiny object you seem fixated on. I’ve got bigger fish to fry.
The Guardian, reporting Trump’s own words. So I guess ultimately the idiot that created the title is the idiot currently in charge.
Massive fucking OpSec failure. All on the nupties that Trump has hired to run his admin. And of course, the buck stops anywhere but at Mango Mussolini’s desk.
Said right after Europe as a block says they’re tariffing American goods to recover money stolen by the Trump Admin from USAID.
Can we start working on this NOW so we ALL know who to vote for and get ahead of the inevitable MSM shitupon of that person?
Yes, Musk didn’t go full Trumpet until roughly 2023, though signs of his shittery were apparent even in '21 if you paid any attention at all. The whole “pedoguy” thing happened in 2018. But yes, most people wouldn’t have known about that in the torrent of news that came out in between 2018 and 2021.
I’m just glad that today, swastikars are a whole lot less desirable than Teslas were in '21. :)
A couple of points I’d add to this:
Trump is a symptom, not the cause. Put another way, should Trump choke on an overcooked steak tomorrow and die, the threat won’t be ended. The cancer is the entire GQP, not just its leader.
Americans as a whole have a desire for authoritarianism. ‘Make those bad people behave the way I want them to’ is endemic in American culture.
Not only can it happen here, it has, twice, and damn near took our Democracy down with it both times.
Have you checked to see how many AirBNB houses you have in your area? There are over a thousand in the area where I live. Of course, AirBNB knows how bad the real number would make them look, so they obfuscate it, but every AirBNB listing can represent a house where a couple might get started. But why sell a home at even 400k when you can rent every room in that house for $250 a night. $250 * 3 (Bedrooms) * 7 * 52 = 273k a year to START, and that number keeps going up and up and up…
Excellent point. I’m no political expert, but I can see that what we’re doing right now isn’t working. No matter how much we point out how awful the Right is, we aren’t winning voters because they aren’t really seeing it. For the person who thinks an immigrant took his job and is why he’s not getting ahead today, hearing that a bunch of them got loaded on a plane and taken to an El Salvadorian gulag isn’t a bad thing. It’s a good thing, because that’s fewer undesirables polluting the country and ‘taking our jerbs’. It also doesn’t affect them. Who cares if some brown dad from Maryland got sent to the gulag by accident. That’s somebody else’s problem. The people we’re trying to reach don’t care about that. If sending the Browns to a labour camp brings the price of eggs down, then well, too bad so sad, send 'em all off so Ah can get muh eggs ‘n’ gas for cheapah! Murica fuck yeah!
Let’s get real. All our bloviating about how dumb the GQP is and how evil they are serves once purpose – preaching to the choir. We keep insulting their intelligence, insisting they have no plan, saying we’re smarter than they are, and accusing their voters of being morons barely able to breathe on their own, but we keep losing elections to these supposed morons. Our leadership and our pundits have forgotten the most important role for leaders and pundits – convincing people that we’re right and the other side is wrong. Meanwhile, the GQP has cornered the information space, sent us reeling, gotten enough people to stay home, vote third party, or actually vote for their shitheads, and basically shock and awe us in 2016 AND 2024. Really, if you stop and look at how well we got outplayed, you gotta question who the real morons are. Doubly so now that they’re in power, and rather than stepping back and pointing out the resulting shitshow is 100% on Team Red, we’re helping them fuck the country over, repeatedly. That really fits us for the dunce cap in my book.
I hope that AOC and Sanders’ message sticks. I think it’s a good one. As billionaires get tax cuts while we pay more and more for essentials, the message that we’re being fucked by the moneyed class should stick harder. While it wasn’t enough to win us those two Florida seats (an awful lot of awful people still vote in Florida), it DID seem to reverse our fortunes in Wisconsin, and we managed to keep the courts liberal over there. But even this has its flaws. I think a lot of people have the idea that Democrats are just a party of talking, not of action. And that idea isn’t wholly unearned. Democrats do have a habit of throwing their hands up and giving up when the going gets tough. What they need to do is fire up Billy Ocean and rise to the occasion, fighting for all our rights and convincing through both words and actions that they are the better chance. We’ll never pick off the hard-core Q-Anon nutcases, but if we can convince some of the 7 million that didn’t vote for Trump in 2020 but did in 2024 to stay home or vote third party, if not vote for us, and we can get some of the 90m that stayed home in 2024 to turn out now for the Democrats, that’s good. Here’s hoping that Democrats put actions to the words we’re seeing right now, otherwise this will be short-lived. And all we’ll have is the ability to shake our fists at the evil, stupid Republicans.