I believe that statement from the Trump appointed board as much as I believe in the statement “Tommy Tuberville can absolutely name the three branches of the US government.”

In actual sports?

.002% (10/500,000) of US college athletes

In the minds of Idiot America?

It’s very much an outsized concern. 73% of Americans were uncomfortable with transgender athletes competing on sports teams that do not match their sex at birth. and even in the Democratic party,

Democrats are more divided on the issue. A slim majority (55%) said they would be not too or not at all comfortable with athletes playing on teams that do not match their birth sex, while smaller shares said they would be somewhat comfortable (21%) or extremely or very comfortable (23%).

I think there are those who are playing dumb, like Cruz and McConnell, but you’ve got your Tubervilles and your Mark Wayne’s who really have drunk the middle school, edgelord koolaid.

End of the day though, dumb or playing dumb, you’ve got a whole party who continually tank the economy ever time they get into office and an electorate that eats up their lies.

In our time, the economics profession has undergone tremendous change for the better, and those neoclassical nostrums have been subjected to intense scrutiny by a new generation of economists who have seen with their own two eyes that markets do not always self-correct (another neoclassical assertion) and that sometimes, government intervention is required to achieve good ends.

Republican politicians didn’t get the memo. ** Nor did the American electorate. ** So it’s very easy to tell people, for example, that you’re going to open up federal lands to more drilling, and there’ll be more oil, and prices will go down. That’s about as much economics as your average person remembers from high school, and it makes intuitive sense.

That’s your actual root cause right there.

Can’t say I’ve ever worked with the steelworkers union personally but I’m friends with a former engineer that worked at one of their plants.

U.S. Steel was in trouble twenty years ago when they refused to upgrade and keep up with the times in terms of technology and kept with their old, busted manufacturing because “shareholder value” despite my friend trying to make them aware it all sucked. End result is what we’re seeing now due to corporate incompetence.

Also, the workers weren’t exactly the brightest either and even at his plant, they voted against their own interest all the freaking time where we were at.

And btw, steelworkers:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/11/07/trump-inroads-union-workers-pennsylvania/75962349007/

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/podcasts/the-daily/9-11-anniversary-mamdani-ground-zero.html

25 years later and we’re also finally learning that Republicans and moderate Democrats lied to New Yorkers about the air quality post attack, covered it up, and now thousands are dying from cancer most likely due to this with clusters happening all over the place.

And what’s telling is that the DNC is doing not a damn thing about this guy. They’re still keeping him in the ranks, still giving him support.

God damn, not only didn’t read past the headline, didn’t even bother to read the very first line of what OP graciously pasted into the body of the post.

This is why we can’t have nice elections.

Voters would need to look at voting in the primaries for progressives that will actually fight because no liberal Democrats they keep election will always capitulate at the slightest discomfort.

At this point, I wouldn’t put it past him to convert and have a sister wife.

Remember when SPAAAAACE FOOOORCE, used Star Trek as their logo.

Those were the good ol’ days.

El-Sayed’s comment was a response to that. His claim is that if Vance’s Papaw would have seen a Muslim candidate in the bigoted terms that Vance articulated—as inherently posing a threat to “working people”—then he also might have seen Usha Vance in a similar way.

As a immigrant that grew up in the same Midwest environment, there’s no might.

And yet here we are with you supporting people who vote with Republicans and slow marching toward fascism.

Do better.

Sad that this is all you have with this comment. Your other comment was much more insightful.

Yeah, those voters who were in the Uncommitted and Abandon Harris movement.

https://www.leftvoice.org/michigan-democratic-primary-referendum-on-uncommitted/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/23/democrats-abdul-el-sayed-progressives

Yeah there were consequences of not voting but that little movement of conscientious objectors did end up fueling progressives and the rest of the voting populace to think about why they abstained and has had an effect on politics and for how little it was seems to have had a outsized impact on things moving forward. No one is saying there weren’t consequences to that decision, their whining about the consequences after were annoying as hell, but their impact was and is being felt in today’s politics.

And there we go. Just like a Republican to complain about the lack of discourse and then do fuck all to address a damn thing. Got it Charlie.

I would appreciate it if you didn’t vote for fascists that, if followed continues to accelerate my nation’s decent into fascism. Thanks.

Vote better in the primaries next time.

You’re such a sanctimonious Republican that really can’t hold shit to a debate.

You say I act like my choice isn’t any different from voting for a Republican and yet, look at your self man, you’re supporting people who literally voted for fascism in this vote, people who voted to save Mike Johnson, people who voted to not impeach Trump and that’s just recently, plenty more where that came from with just people like Fetterman and Manchin that your party keeps/kept defending to keep in the party. You guys honestly are just as bad with your Republican counter parts with how much “Rah, rah! My sports team”.

Also, you realize that Primaries are different from the general. You realize that right? And it’s because of do nothing Republicans in the Democratic party like you that keep giving us this fucked up choice two shit fascist sandwiches every fucking time.

Yeah, it took three fucking decades to even start getting over your moderate bullshit and that’s why we’re finally seeing people like AOC, Omar, Pressley, Talib, Bush, Mandami, El-Sayed, Nixon winning their primaries and I’m proud to have donated, voted for, and volunteered for progressives in my twenty years of voting for your shit neo-liberal candidates in the general during that time. I’m actually helping to get real change enacted unlike you and your Republican ilk. As for general elections, I’m done with that bullshit now, writing is on the wall that Republicans can GTFO and if I have to go acclerationist, so be it, I can at least be here living with myself knowing that I didn’t slow walk fascist bullishit like this into office and live with the consequences.

I’ll continue to donate, vote, and volunteer for progressives and continue to never donate another dime to Democrats until the day I die to get rid of do nothing moderates like you who enable fascism in the name of bipartisanship and keeping your corporate donors happy because I know what people like you stand for and that’s doing fuck all to help the working American people and regurgitating tired old noe-liberal, Republican policies that don’t do shit other than make Republicans happy.

Enough playing chess with pigeons for today. Have a good one my Republican colleague.

You keep fucking that chicken then. Keep on voting in the fascist-lite that keeps voting with them to chip away democracy while you cry impotently on social media about how could fascism take hold.

I’d rather join a organized protest vote like those in Dearborn and affect change. But again, keep doing the same thing and expect things to change, I’m sure it’ll happen.

No they have not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_third-party_and_independent_performances_in_United_States_presidential_elections

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_third-party_and_independent_candidacies_in_United_States_Senate_elections

Sanders is an outlier as is King. Most others that have been in the independent banner like Murkowski or Lieberman were part of the two parties before.

Feel free to provide citations showing plenty of independents winning. I am just like you, waiting for the people to get fed up with the first past the shitty post but I don’t have faith in Idiot America, both parties included.