For Iran's war effort... get it? Anyone but Trump would do a better job and they'd be in trouble!

(BTW, I see no need to speculate the effect of killing Trump on US politics or my status - have better things to think about :)

Drawing of a book with a desk printer on the cover with the title "The printer that simply worked and other fairy tales"

White House staffer Margo Martin tweets "Congratulations, Georgia Women's Tennis" with a photo of Trump and a bunch of dudes and some female heads way in the back

i had to triple check that this wasn't from a parody account

The worst thing Iran could do to win the war is assassinate Trump

Now here is a national policy I can get behind

2 days ago my maga neighbour was like "if the covid vax is so good how come you get it every year" so I made a super sad face and dropped my voice and confessed that I was addicted to vaccines and wife is not happy with me because I have been expressly told to stop winding him up but HOW TO RESIST

That's my expectation. That's the future Schumer and Jeffries seem to be dreaming of and working for.

Oooooh - you're that old?

Maybe if we let them tear it down something better will be born. I don't think that's true, and I'm a well off white guy with a house - so I recognize the privilege to say stupid shit like that - but maybe, just maybe, something better WILL be born. It certainly won't if I keep voting Dem...

I'm tired of voting for Dems with hopes of basic health care, education, rule of law - you know... government- and ending up with more giveaways to billionaires and foreign wars

I vote to stop Republicans because - well, look around, I hate this - but, you know, fuck it.

I've been having this argument elsewhere and who and how to vote is everyone's personal journey

I'm kind of done. I've been voting Dem all my decades, and things have not gotten better - they've gotten worse

Not only that, Dems aren't promising to make them better

Me, being left behind…❤️

Every complaint by a conservative is projection

The President calls every black person he doesn’t like “low IQ” and the media believes it absolutely critical we draw no conclusions from that

Texas republicans illegally gerrymandered their maps and never once asked voters how they feel about it.

California and Virginia let voters decide.

That’s the difference. They started this fight and Democrats are going to fucking finish it.

A reminder while Republicans bitch about Dems finishing the redistricting fight they started: they have full control of gov’t— they can pass a law banning gerrymandering any time they want. They won’t. Republicans aren’t mad gerrymandering exists; they’re mad that they’re not the only ones using it.

Every use of the word "psychotic" to describe a fascist, is basically shorthand for "I'm afraid to admit that fascism enables a person to be incredibly violent without any need whatsoever for them to have a personality disorder"

Gardening, hiking, bird watching - river rafting, that's my favorite but it takes a lot of gear and planning.
I'm up in the PNW - it's clamming then crabbing season, and fishing too. Summer is the best!

If two things don't work - which is more "effective"?

I can tell you have a point you're trying to make, but you're trying to couch it in bad faith, poorly thought out questions in order to seem reasonable and curious

This conversation is not constructive

You're asking if I have an example of a politician listening to the will of the people and then promising to do that thing to get elected?

They've had overwhelming majorities several times during this, and yet we never get basic healthcare, cheap education, campaign finance, anti-gerrymandering, DC statehood - I've got a list

We did get an Iraq war, support for Israel's war, immunity for war criminals, business bailout

Dems are bad

It is a potentially good tactic - I have been a reliable Democratic voter since Clinton. I helped out with local politics to get a Dem on town council and then run for state Rep (we lost). I canvas for local Dem initiatives and candidates.

I look at the Dem party then and now, and it's worse

So if we're still talking the "Vote Blue..." memo - yeah, no, that doesn't save democracy either

We know for a fact that voting for Democrats does NOT save our democracy - since we voted them in after the insurrection and, well, here we are at Fascism

The had both houses and the Presidency, and yet they didn't do what was required to protect our democracy

Valid but different question

Publicly threatening NOT to vote Dem unless they do X DOES work

There are also other options besides voting for Dems that would enhance our Democracy

Meanwhile firing every woman and black person around them...

Banger segue

Agreed

This is the danger of people who make assertions without proper citation

When in conversations this is the point where I say, "really, how certain are you - would you bet $5K that all men without children don't have this?"

I've yet to get a taker and then you know this person can be safely ignored

A golden retriever has both paws up at a bank teller’s window.

“Are you the branch manager?”
“Yes I am, how can I help you?”
“I would like two branches, please.”
“How would you like that?”
“Two big sticks, four little sticks.”