Yeah, why was he answering this stupid question and not being asked about why his officers keep brutalizing protesters and journalists?

on CNN

Oh, that’s why

I worry RFK is going to use a combination of being exactly who we thought he was, moving just slowly enough for people to lose interest, and his boss’s tendency to demand all of our attention to do some truly awful stuff, and by the time we realize how awful it is it will be way too late to do anything about it

TBF, seeing Trump treat someone else like shit, empathizing with their experience, and realizing how it could happen to them is really hard for Republicans because they’re morally and intellectually defective

Yeah, I guess I was thinking of this from the top down constitutional perspective of it (and even then I probably should have said taking ICE’s side or the federal government’s side), but meanwhile on the ground the LAPD is doing the LAPD thing and the National Guard is doing the National Guard thing

I can understand people being pissed at him since every Californian cop has been taking the national guard’s side against the protesters so far

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Voter turnout declined because Kamala’s campaign consultants were lazy racist dipshits who dgaf about black and hispanic voters and threw all their money at suburban whites (who didn’t turn out for them), so overall black and hispanic voting declined and the ones who did still turnout were more likely to be conservative

This article is stupid, it’s from the day after the election so all their data was still just a bunch of exit poll snapshots and individual voter interviews and random campaign consultants pointing fingers each other

Sometimes, I’ve started seeing newer ones in some places where there is no mute button

Hmm, maybe someone could make some stickers with anti-advertising/anti-capitalist slogans on them for the next person to see specifically for this purpose

I’m honestly surprised ICE didn’t promise not to retaliate, then arrest all these people anyway and say, “It’s not retaliation, we arrest all kinds of people at their court hearings these days.” Like, that probably would fly in court because our whole system is a clownshow.

Among a lot of other problems, this is a drug addled idiot and known liar saying random bullshit he thinks people will like with no substance behind it

Andrew Yang rn

Trump’s highest approval ratings can be found in his handling of immigration

a) those approval ratings drop quickly when you start asking about anything more specific than “securing the border” like family separations and arresting people at hospitals and court hearings

b) the good approval ratings on the general topic have a lot to do with the fact that the Democratic party doesn’t have a coherent and comprehensive response to Republican lies about immigration because asshole morons like Matthew Yglesias are constantly making the argument that the Dipshit administration doing things like illegally sending an innocent man to a foreign gulag without a trial and then ignoring the court order to return him is actually popular and it would hurt Dems to talk about it (like he did in the speech at a recent DC conference this whole article is about)

Partially because I believe in democracy and the right of voters / non voters to make bad choices,

Partially because I think complaining about non-voters isn’t going to change their behavior at all and might just make them more stubborn,

But mostly because I have spent my entire adult life watching asshole morons get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to advise Democratic candidates to do stupid shit like campaign with Liz Cheney, and then when they lose try to blame everything on trans people for existing or whoever’s the new scapegoat of the day, so I want to see all those fuckers lose their jobs and get shamed out of professional politics almost as badly as I want to see Republicans and their financiers in proson

Lol, I voted for Harris

“Because people are, by and large, spectacularly awful” is a terrible message for getting people to vote for you, and you can tell a lot of actually awful people in the Democratic party believe it based on the stupid shit they campaign on (for example - nobody is going to buy it when you say you want a lethal military, your party likes treaties and peace and UN hearings, you’re just pretending to be a Republican because you think we’re all stupid).

Maybe if we run on what we actually believe and stopped trying to bullshit people they’d stop being so spectacularly cynical about their country.

I think it was a no show problem because we had practically the same decreased turnout in 2012 compared to 2008 without pandemic voting weirdness to explain it, but either way 100% vote by mail is an excellent idea (both the underlying policy and campaigning on “let’s make interacting with your government less of a pain in the ass” type ideas)

Idiocy caused the “no show” problem. If you couldn’t see that the Biden and Harris campaign were creating the exact conditions to make this happen by fighting with their own supporters over Israel (who turned out to vote against Trump anyway but made the Democratic party look like the chaotic shitshow it is with their protests) and telling everyone else that the economy was great actually and they were just too stupid to see that, you’re a fool (who was probably being paid six figures for campaign consulting).