Having some experts be paid shills while giving other experts the chance to actually legitimately affect change is not the same as handing every decision over to non-experts who incidentally just made defacto bribery legal for their positions.

Well well well, if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions

Because prisons are for poor people. If it happens, he’ll end up in a “prison resort” that has all the amenities he wants on the technicality that he can’t leave.

It’s projection. Republicans control youth through their own cult of religion. They cut education so young people have a hard time realizing they’re being controlled.

They expect democrats are doing the same through pride and gay culture, that because those demographics tend to vote blue, it must be a political play to brainwash young people into voting blue.

It’s projection.

Those people are devoted to the letter R. Trump is living proof that you can actively try to be the most vile person alive and still get republican support.

Problem is that requires good faith from both sides. If only one side adheres to that then the other side uses it as ammunition and inputs their politically appointed judges anyway.

Case in point, Senator Mitch McConnell crying out in 2015 about Obama wanting to appoint someone at the end of his term, saying that he would be robbing the next president of that legacy and it would be a political appointment. And then Mitch McConnell said nothing as they appointed and Trump approved three blatantly political nominees.

Both sides have to agree that those positions be apolitical or one side just ends up getting screwed. And of course we are not going to see that because Republicans don’t have a shred of decency left and the whole party.

Sotomayor: cries

Yes. Our country is run by geriatrics who, among other things related to modern society, legislate on technology they don’t understand. We need younger members with more flexible minds who have at least spent some part of their younger lives dealing with problems we have a modern variation of today.

But especially SCOTUS members. Any kind of term limit on them would be better than what we have.

Biden and Trump couldn’t collude on a place to order takeout

No you misunderstand. These laws are for poor people. The lawmakers will have their daughters flown up north to a state where they can still get one

That might help here, except that Republicans actively label attempts to raise the voter turnout as a Democrat power grab, and Republicans are the only ones with any power. It’ll never happen

On a party line vote, this is a done deal. You haven’t been paying attention to Louisiana politics, I take it? They’re in a phase right now of revenge passing whatever right wing bills they can because, for the first time in 8 years, we have a republican governor who won’t stop them.

I’m from Louisiana. This person is referring to the abysmal voter turnout. They said 20% of the population, not 20% of the voters.

Given that only about 36% of the eligible voting population even turned out to vote, this is accurate.

With that turnout it literally only takes 20% of the population to enable shit like this.

Yes, explicitly. Trump is campaigning on taking political revenge on the party that “stole” his presidency. Republicans are passing bills criminalizing the bare existence of demographics like trans people.

Dude, I was reading just yesterday that Missouri passed a law making it illegal to view lgbtq content without first identifying yourself.

I live in an area in the south where people talk every day about how democrats are going to hang once Trump takes office because they believe all our problems were caused by Biden. It wasn’t like this in 2020.

You think you’re setting me up for some kind of gotcha, but you’re not paying attention.

Keep day dreaming. It’s obvious you don’t see the writing on the wall. I’m done playing this game where people like you assert that voting Biden is somehow worse than the power grab republicans are practically advertising at this point.

This conversation is over. Thanks again for wasting your vote.

Refusing to act because you are idle daydreaming about a perfect solution is the dumbest way of enabling fascism. So thanks for that.

You are fulfilling your own prophecy of making fascism inevitable. And you don’t sound as intelligent to the people who understand what’s on the line as you do to yourself.

Thanks again for stating outright that you’re cool with fascism as long as a true left wing candidate doesn’t exist.

Oh, good thing you shot down my point by asserting that fascism is inevitable. That makes the fact that you’re enabling it totally fine.

It’s funny how when the threat of fascism looms, you don’t tend to have a full array of different choices laid out in a neat menu of candidates to thwart it.

It’s almost as if the conditions that create fascism necessarily require and go on to arrange a lukewarm, unpopular candidate as the only other option so rubes can justify not voting when the actual fascist needs them to abstain.

I’m so tired of the people who think they’re better than the system and don’t fully grasp that we’re fighting just to keep some modicum of a democracy.

Problem is, we have to unite behind somebody, because everyone who votes red isn’t going to vote anyone but Trump.

If we don’t decide to unite behind one person, we lose to an actual fascist.

There is a struggle among people who say that to understand, the majority voting Biden aren’t voting his policies. They’re voting against full blown fascism.

It’s completely absurd to me that people can look at the choice between a president who is disappointing but ultimately status quo and fucking “I just want to be a dictator on day one” Hitler-lite and just shrug like one isn’t going to be the end of this nation as we know it and an active danger for several demographics.

Like we get it. You don’t like genocide Joe. Do you think throwing your vote away by not voting or voting your favorite green candidate is going to stop anyone who votes red from foaming at the mouth over the chance at eliminating any possibility of progress here?

Well yeah. The republicans who do the admirable stuff get ostracized by their colleagues and their base. Look at McCain (what they did to his legacy) or his daughter. Look at Mitt Romney. Old guard actual republicans with a shred of integrity are bullied for not chasing the outrage of the week.

Hell, even house speaker Mike Johnson, by all accounts a deep red Bible thumping Maga republican asshole, is facing resignation calls for just compromising on a bill that might avert a government shutdown. Literally doing his job.

It’s not confirmation bias. Republican congressman don’t have the room to understand what they’re voting on.