Kinda sad that the Presidential election is riding on the coattails of other issues, but that’s the nature of today’s politics.

I’d actually argue the opposite: the nature of today’s politics has far too much focus on the horse race popularity aspect and election strategy of candidates and not anywhere near enough on the actual issues that can shape or even end the lives of the people.

I for one would much rather have someone with the absolutely zero charisma who won’t sell people’s lives for support from special interest groups than the most charming motherfucker ever promising the moon and barely giving the Fresh Kills Landfill.

Granted, neither of those combinations are on the presidential ballot, so I’m just gonna cross everything except the streams hoping that the establishment candidate not likely to significantly improve much beats the fascist guaranteed to make everything much worse if given the chance.

Kåre Häkkinen O’Leary

That’s Danish/Norwegian, Finnish, and Irish combined.

That’s a person so white they’d need to put on sun block to go outside when there’s a full moon

It’s the anonymity that’s the problem. Everyone should just have one account. You could still post anonymously, but you can’t get any clout for it.

Grab em by the work permit?

We don’t want Ted Cruz.

I need integrity.

Carrying water for a fascist apartheid regime committing genocide is indicative of a lot of things. Integrity isn’t one of them. Same goes for repeating whatever cops tell them to say.

I also respect a bad take far more than silence and cowardice in the face of adversity

There’s honest bad takes and there’s spreading deceptive misinformation. When it comes to Israel, cops, and other things that the establishment likes much more than the population in general, the NYT is constantly doing the latter at refusing to issue corrections.

He was elected by all the locally based media conducting a counterfactual campaign of manufacturing a violent crime crisis and convincing the people of New York that only a cop or a vigilante could save them.

Given that it worked and Sliwa is an absolute maniac and a Republican in a New York election, the fascist cop (but I repeat myself) would have won regardless of the type of voting.

Hopefully the people of New York will be less credulous the next time the billionaire owned media tries to wag the dog, but I doubt it.

To be fair, the fact that he was born in Canada was only relevant when he ran for president.

To be more fair, though, Ted Cruz is an abomination that should not be in any position of public trust given that he can only be trusted to be the absolute WORST at any given moment.

This is why I cancelled my subscription and switched to NYT. I need to be able to trust my news source

Guess you’re ignoring their genocide apologia and their constant pro-cop propaganda, then…

Congratulations! What are you going to spend your winnings on?

The best Doctor. Always will be ❤️

Nice detail with the “colorized” 😁

In his surprise announcement, Pool claimed that he needs to focus on his family (which doesn’t yet exist), and it’s all the fault of his shitty staff members who were stealing from him anyway.

Hookay, dude, whatever you say…

I remember him being a seriously big name that was impossible to avoid if you discussed politics a lot on Twitter back when I was still on there. And of course he was obnoxiously wrong about everything.

That he’s not only quitting but fallen so far that his name isn’t even in the headline?

Dude. Perpetuating the slavery era stereotype that black people are inherently lazy and thus the black presidential candidate must be lazy is about as racist and disrespectful as it gets.

It would be immediately disqualifying for any pre-2010 presidential candidate and tbh it SHOULD be.

And they’ll STILL walk it back the moment some unelected clerk with only ceremonial authority objects. If not before THAT even happens.

They always start negotiations at “nowhere near good enough” and make tons of concessions to Republicans from there.

Even the GOP becoming a literal fascist party that never negotiates in good faith hasn’t changed their toxic inadequacy and insistence on bipartisanship being the highest political virtue possible.

And the fascist apartheid regime committing genocide, invading neighboring countries, and killing US citizens as well as UN peacekeepers with impunity.

Let’s be real here. Calling her lazy isn’t racist unless he said it’s because she’s black

Given that she’s not known to be lazy or anywhere close and he’s publicly super racist all the time, Occam’s Razor would conclude that that was indeed the only likely interpretation.

Getting hung up on the overwhelmingly likely not being explicitly proven like this doesn’t make you sound reasonable and fair minded. It makes you sound like you’re looking for excuses to explain away racism.

Which one, though? It was 9, wasn’t It? Him or 12, for sure.

No need. If there’s anything Garland is good at, it’s ignoring injustice. He’s the quintessential Clintonite Centrist (and a couple other words that also start with c) Attorney General.