Very well stated. We need to operate within this reality instead of the fantasy land created by those who will be fine either way.

Unfortunately it's worse than this. It seems like the GOP has successfully indoctrinated a new generation if incel supporters in high enough numbers to matter. If this trend continues the boomers can die and we'll still be fucked.

I think empathy dies in greater numbers every year. Your position seems to rely on empathy of the downtrodden. Obviously progressives will largely support these policies, but there is selfishness within those ranks too. What if America is just losing touch of their humanity? I feel like leaning into the obvious divide is step one. Stop pretending they're our friends, and then call them every name that applies to them and then double, triple, quadruple down. The smartest thing Biden said all year is that the only garbage he sees is Trump's supporters laughing at that joke.

As sad as it is though, it's very difficult to have empathy when you're drowning. If people weren't all drowning it would be easier to get through to them. Power has locked out all options for that though.

I think it was a matter of who was willing to go low. American people are not civilly minded, they appreciate hyperbole, satire, and vicious descriptive insults versus those they don't like. This isn't just Republicans who like these things, and one could even argue they don't understand satire. Tim Walz was the energy we needed and the muzzle they put on him was like an enthusiasm sponge. When you say your enemies are good people who deserve a cabinet seat you're fucking lost. Nobody in this climate gives a fuck about civility except the talking heads and politicians worried that making a stand needs to be proceeded by a ballot questionnaire and a sacrificial lamb.

From the wording it sounds like it wasn't made public, just presented to the lawyers. It's similar to how jehovah witnesses tried to pierce anononimity for the antijw reddit posters to identify defendants in a copyright lawsuit and the judge said something akin to "It's understandable that you don't want your name publicly associated with this post, but the court system imparts trust on lawyers to act as good stewards of this information and so plaintiffs council may have access to your identity." If this information is leaked they should be disbarred on the spot for mishandling the data.

Sorry bud, you're not a republican any more... They've left you behind because your morals were based on something.

I dunno bro, I saw a lot of bright smiling teeth behind him DURING the joke. Not a single person I know with a soul did anything other than gasp. The entire rally was full of opaque out and open fascist statements and disgusting needlessly aggressive remarks about opponents. If you think it wasn't similar to the MSG Nazi rally then you really ought to watch it. Your blinders are letting you get slow-walked to nazism.

Maybe if his spawn's failson husband didn't oppsidaisy the federal contract to restore its infrastructure to a middleman shell company nobody's ever heard of it would be in better condition... or if it wasn't Washington's proving ground for the effects of cruel and unusual policies nobody except companies want. Or if they could spend money on their own infrastructure before paying back bonds like everyone else can legally do. Or maybe if Trump gave any shits at all about it as his entire presidency was riddled with hatred towards US territories like "at least the only thing in range of North Korea's nuke is Guam." I'm sure there isn't metric tons of evidence that his policies reflected that opinion.

Well the dollar was a good currency while it lasted.

Our collective qualifications for this very political stance is uh... money? They should all be in jail for anti-competitive and anti-union business practices, not in some self-follating prominently placed article. "We gamble daddy money against labor value real good, us smart."

I'm more interested in the opinions of the poor assistant tasked to dictate their pompous soliloquy round discussion right before their electric windows dim for the next blood orgy. Are they okay?

What a dipshit.

Trump shuts up when events threaten anything we care about if it doesn't suit his goals and screams loudly if it does, but it has nothing to do with the freedoms or positive values we as Americans often have.

He shut the hell up when Erodogan's bodyguard thugs beat up peaceful protesters with brass knuckles and kicked a pregnant participant.

He shut the hell up when the Saudi prince's hitman murdered a US journalist at our consolate.

What does he really care about? The man bitched for a year about Hillary's email and his empty-headed family had multiple examples of them doing the same shit. He claims to care about millitary members and then immediately misused them, getting a bunch killed conducting riskier than necessary missions, shit on PoWs, and thumbsed up a gravesite in Arlington. He claims to care about gun rights, but when discussing what to do about shootings he asked why we can't just take someone's weapons before they had plausibly done anything wrong. Power, he does seem to actually care about that.