Except Dems always play by the rules

No they don’t!

They say they do, but they routinely break conventions and norms and laws and constitutional amendments when it’s convenient for them and their donor base.

More often than not, they wait for a Republican to do it first and then just keep on keeping on.

But they don’t follow the rules. They use the rules to excuse why they refuse to enact popular policies. They deflect and defer and soccer-flop.

“they go low, we go high”

Obama did drone strikes on children.

That cuts both ways.

everything is just getting worse

The planet is in its sixth major extinction event - one that’s been ongoing for roughly 12,000 years. And yet we’re finally achieving a kind of universal consciousness regarding the impact we’re collectively imposing on the world and the methodologies we can employ to respond to it.

I don’t think I’d call that “getting worse”. No other lifeforms have ever had the opportunity to know they’re going extinct before it happens, much less the faculties to do something about it.

This is a pivotal epoch in Earth’s multi-billion year history. I would not say things are getting worse. I would say things have the potential to move in a direction no planet in the Solar System has had the opportunity to move since it was created. That potential creates a great deal of anxiety and fear, because it is much easier to be ignorant - a dinosaur unaware of the looming comet - than faced with the foreknowledge of catastrophe. But it is that shared anxiety that creates the social pressure for universal change.

Reincarnation into what?

“Hey, if you die in this life, you can come back as a bug that gets eaten by another bug shortly after hatching. And then you can do this for the next 10,000 years until you get lucky enough to come back as something remotely sentient.”

Sounds like that shit sucks, man. You have a real pivotal moment in this life to embrace dharma and appeal to heaven for a higher place in the great pattern. I’ll admit, I’m not much of a mystic, but I don’t think eating a bullet after a night spent guzzling whiskey is what gets you up the ladder.

They can. But will they? These post offices are run by the same people doing the voting, after all.

It’s one thing to tell a post office in Utah to trash all the ballots and just hand the keys of state off to the local Mormon Bishopry. Very much another to give the order in Washington State.

From the GOP perspective, this explains why Colorado is a Democratic island

Colorado isn’t a Democratic island. New Mexico and Arizona are also blue states. Nevada’s solid purple, regularly sending up a mix of Ds and Rs. There’s no shortage of conservatives in Colorado, either. Lauren Boebert is from Colorado, ffs. She’s got an enormous constituency of evangelical lunatic supporters and die-hard Republicans. Trump lost Colorado in 2016 by a Gary Johnson’s margin. It was straight up winnable back under Compassionate Conservative Bush Jr.

They probably tell each other that without all the fake, mail-in ballots, Colorado would be as red as Wyoming and Utah.

Sure. And Democrats keep insisting Texas is winnable if all the non-voters turn out, nevermind how a rising volume of overall voters only ever breaks for Republicans.

Nevertheless, shutting down mail-in voting in Colorado won’t benefit Republicans in any meaningful way.

The effect is sowing further distrust in voting by mail

Colorado and Oregon consistently have some of the highest voter turnout in the country.

Idk if this works in practice.

I love that the noose of reality is tightening around this regime’s neck

I mean, I remember this gleeful enthusiasm back in 2006 and 2018. Very likely there’s a bloodbath in the next election. But… what comes next?

Will Dems actually be in charge of the Senate? Or do we get the “John Fetterman Says No” show for the next two years?

Does the House try and rein in the President or just double down on war funding while doing photo ops of Hakeem Jeffries shrugging impotently?

Go back to Pelosi’s House under Bush. And Pelosi/Schumer under Trump 1. These were not inspiring moments of liberal leadership. More often than not, Dems don’t stop the fascism. They just cash in and become complicit.

after it has had the effect they wanted on the upcoming election

I don’t think the anti-GOP sentiment is confined to elderly liberal voters.

Also, Eight states – California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, and Washington – conduct what is commonly referred to as an all-mail election, or universal mail-in voting. In these states, voting is conducted primarily by mail, and all eligible voters receive a ballot by default

I’m not sure how post offices in these states could even respond.

Definitely beats waking up with a massive headache and cramps every day.

I seem to remember this meme ending with a joke about taking estrogen.

Vapes enjoyed a fuckton of marketing from people proudly proclaiming “There is no proof that these new things cause cancer!” Followed by a decade of company funded “Nuh-uh!” ambiguous refutations and lobbying campaigns to kill any kind of contrary studies.

Like, I get the impulse to say “No duh”. But I doubt you’re listening to a congo line of Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson ad men telling you that vaping is the safest, bestest, most liberating way to consume your drug of choice.

Just admit, like all people who smoke cigarettes do, that it’s bad for you

I still know people who insist smoking isn’t bad for you. Typically with some kind of “Actually, oranges and swimming pools kill more people than cigarettes do, so it’s no big deal” rejoinder. It’s genuinely maddening.

The cancerous chemical company said this one wasn’t proven to cause cancer. Who was I supposed to believe?

Besides, without cancerous smoke packets, I’d still be using cancerous smoke sticks. Are you saying I should still be using the sticks? You freak. Those things cause cancer!

Greater Israel is fully predicated on the US backstopping its existence, both politically and militarily.

Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Turkiye, and now I guess Syria all align with Israel due to an enormous American boot on their collective necks. As soon as that weight is seen to lift up, you’re going to get a full blown Congolese War between the various tin pot dictators and aristocratic despots.

Israelis simply don’t have the manpower to control more territory. Their plans to settle the West Bank and Gaza are heavily predicated on damned near every Jew left on earth moving into their domain. And even then - so many of the Israel Jews hate one another, hate their Christian neighbors, hate their Arab co-conspirators, and hate their European financiers. This isn’t sustainable in any material way. Not without the world’s largest economy propping them up.

Going to enjoy reading this article every week for the next 20 years.

the fall of multiple fictional empires

Appropriate, since we’re talking about Isn’trael.

You know, I’m not the kind of guy who thinks “If we didn’t have laws, people would just do horrible things to one another because we’re all libidinal animals shackled by the threat of state violence.”

But if I’d just stormed the US Capital Building, spent six months in iPad timeout, and then received a Presidential pardon to Do As Thou Wilt, I might get a little freaky with it under the preconception that laws really don’t apply to me.

You’re describing Revelations Jesus. And by the time he finally shows up, all the killing’s been done by the Fake Jesus that’s tricked legions of people into damnation.

This is also the only Gnostic text that made it into the canonical texts. If you get into the actual Gnostic beliefs about Jesus, you’re on a rollercoast ride of spiritualist philosophy bordering on the Sci-Fi. Alternate dimensions, shared souls, astral projection, just all sorts of weird goofy shit that the Council of Nicea cut from the program.

Revelations is, at its heart, a story of how Rome and its pagans will all eventually get what’s coming to them. That the Christians-Who-Are-Doing-It-Wrong will get what’s coming to them. That the Jews will get what’s coming to them. It is a story wildly out of line with the prior books, but one that resonated strongly with the post-Constantine neo-Christian order.