I'm also Team Super Early, but I also recognize that shit happens. I'm pretty much always at least 20 minutes early for every appointment, but that doesn't stop a massive wreck with standstill traffic en route, or rolling roadblocks. Both of which I have experienced.

why do people insist on infantilizing White voters?

Like they didn't have a whole proof of concept of how this shit would go from 2017-2021?

Abigail Spanberger, the woman that you are.

Republicans for the last 50 years when we wanted to ban gerrymandering: 🖕🖕
Republicans now that they have 1 district in the entirety of VA: WAIT THIS NEEDS TO BE ILLEGAL!!!!!! THAT'S NOT FAIR!!!!

I'm actually getting off on the republican tears over Virginia's redistricting. Yessssssss cry more, mommy needs your tears

It's always so crazy to me when I find out my mutuals have kids. Like, whoag you 3D printed a whole Guy. And you're my Mutual.

It's why you see leftists decry "identity politics." Class reductionism means you can convince these people they can get some more money, but if it comes with women and black people earning the same benefits, they don't want it.

The only way to court these people is to court white supremacy. I'm saying this as someone from a rural area of a red state. There is nothing you can give them that is as valuable as their place in the hierarchy over someone else. That's really all there is to it.

🙋‍♀️ my mother had an abortion before having my brother and I.

While she was serving our country, Betsy was sexually assaulted. 

@grahamformaine.bsky.social — the rapists are to blame, not women like Betsy.

Hungary's election is a reminder that no matter how much a dictator rigs the system, there's no defense against nearly 80% of voters showing up…

Remember that.

Why do these people think “he’s just a Nazi, get over it” is a more legitimate demand than “she’s just a woman in her 70s, get over it”?

Haha thanks. I always hated when pro choice folks would say "I'm pro choice not pro abortion!" It's like saying you're pro universal healthcare, but you're NOT pro chemotherapy.

Duh, no one wants to deal with an unwanted pregnancy. But we're pretty relieved when healthcare is available!

It's always "reach out to disaffected Trump voters" until the libs do it, and then it's proof that we're secret fascists.

So how do you fight it? Submit to the disinformation? While the US definitely needs to fund safety nets, there are genuinely just a bunch of people who fell victim to lifestyle creep and don't know how to effectively budget.

Another win for "normie centrist corporate dems" or whatever

I guess, but it seems counterproductive. Things aren't as good as you think they should be, so you decide to elect a fascist?

Absolutely insane to me that the online left hates that Kamala did 2 campaign stops with Liz Cheney but Ilhan Omar & Ro Khanna offer to build a new party with Marjorie Taylor Greene and they're the progressive future. What the fuck is wrong with you people.

For all those still feeling the moon joy—Artemis II was brought to you by public schools and publicly funded science. Copy that! 👩‍🚀🚀💕

*All four astronauts went to public schools!

Harris and Cheney partnered to keep Trump out of office.

Omar and Greene will partner to keep Dems out of office.

Then block me, it's not an airport. Jesus.

I really don't think people understand how DEEPLY out of hand the normalization of Nazi talking points has gotten. Like you post a challah recipe and people say that everyone you know should go "back to Poland" (which has approximately the same Jewish pop as Rhode Island) and that Hitler was right.

This is super important & you shouldn't miss it:

bsky.app/profile/juli...

Hilary Clinton and Kamala Harris did warn the moronic US population but they were too stupid, racist and misogynistic to listen.

Notice how you never see a family in a cybertruck. Always some lonely chud with bad facial hair.

Lol she blocked me

So why didn't you strike? Why aren't you protesting?

This is simply incorrect—it is a right *and* a responsibility of a citizen in a democracy. Its not a question of hating “each other” its a question of respecting each other and trying to protect each other. Voting and paying taxes are the way I take care of others in this society.

Leftist protesters under Biden versus leftist protesters under Trump, apparently

Whenever I start to think this way, I just remind myself about what the Catholic church thinks about abortion, and women's rights in general.