Dr. Fauci is a fucking American hero. Fuck Rand Paul and his eye doctor ass, pretending to be an infectious disease specialist.

In before SCOTUS declares US Constitution unconstitutional.

(too late?)

Honestly? I think for most they’re too far deep in the right-wing Matrix to be able to tell truth from lies. Many people don’t fully understand just how these people live in a completely alternate reality than the likes of you and me.

It has immediate impact and they cannot lie about the giant numbers in their face while they pump. Even the dumbest of people can grasp this.

It’s okay because they clearly earned it. Merit based society /s

By all means, after you.

(all take note: 1 month old account, probably right-wing bait bot).

I did! Pretty good interview, as well as the one he did with John Favreau. I’m cautiously optimistic, but I have flashbacks to Fetterman that I’m still traumatized by lol

I appreciate the links, thanks! This is pretty much what I’ve heard and nothing I see as a complete deal-breaker. Some of what I see there tends to be somewhat reasonable:

n his posts, he said all police are bastards, and rural White Americans “actually are” racist and stupid, reported CNN. He also responded to a 2013 post about asking people from other races questions.

As someone who grew up rural and white, I can see where he’s coming from and how he’d come to that conclusion.

I probably wouldn’t honestly out of laziness/time, money, knowing I’m not an actual nazi, and that it’s easily hidden under a shirt.

But if it became low-hanging fruit as I’m running for office then sure.

I want to know if he actually engaged in nazi rhetoric or action. This tattoo? It’s a stretch.

Oh thanks!

This?

I see it now that it’s been connected, but I genuinely still would not see it if I was a Marine grunt in my 20s. Just cool skull and crossbones kinda thing probably. Equally as close to pirate stuff.

Doubt he was a war historian back when he was in the Marines though.

Also I’m honestly not getting:

from:

Maybe we shouldn’t spread rumors then if it’s a struggle to memorize a name in the headline or even know what the content was that was allegedly so disturbing…?

What was disturbing on his reddit account, specifically?

Regarding his tattoo, I regretfully wouldn’t have known either had someone pointed it out. They act like it’s a swastika but I guarantee most people if they saw his tattoo wouldn’t know what it was. I can see a silly Marine in his twenties doing something dumb like that and just picking it out of a book because it “looked cool,” so I just need more than that personally. As soon as it was brought to public attention, he had it covered it up so seems reasonable. In my younger years I thought all the German stuff was cool. I played WWII games, listened to Rammstein, and never really connected the dots until later. I kind of get the same impression from Platner – also why are you misspelling his name when it’s in the headline? I see this done a lot by right-wing operatives. Hope it’s just an innocent mistake.

I mean could he be another Fetterman? I guess anything is possible, but what other choice do we have?

I agree with your position that even the most popular candidate we’ve had in a long time – Obama – most likely would not have won that election, but we cannot know for sure. What we do know is that if you’re up against stacked odds, then you need to maximize – over-perform – with the quality of your candidate.

I voted Harris. She was better than Trump in every conceivable way no doubt – and yes, including on Gaza and most certainly Ukraine, Climate Change, LGBTQ+ rights, etc., – but she was still just an average candidate. Can’t have average against stacked odds of billionaires putting their weight on the scales of democracy.

The only persons I think could’ve won that is probably 2016 Bernie, or Michelle Obama.

If Harris wants to run again in the Democratic Primaries, then sure, go for it. I hope we have lots to choose from. But honestly, I’d rather Michelle run.

Several cancers beginning with P, and this is regrettably the easiest to treat.

To dupe them usually requires preying on their fear or anger.

You push them to the edge too far they’ll do something stupid. To their kids, to others etc. The pressure must relieve from somewhere. I don’t want to be responsible for that. Look at anti-vaxx rhetoric. Look at my pillow guy etc.

Like what sort of propaganda was maga girl saying? What hateful things about trans or immigrants etc.?

They truly are easy to grift lol. Tempting to jump onboard this gravy-train of cash, too, if not for the fact that it ultimately contributes to fucking society over even more

I’m still honestly shocked that Orban just kind of ceded without a fight. No challenging results? No hard or soft coup? He’s been in power for decades and was clearly one sick and corrupt fuck… So to abdicate power like that… It just doesn’t track with me.

Lo, I suppose cowardice is hereditary in this case?

Only 33% of U.S. adults approve of Trump’s overall job performance, down slightly from 38% last month.

Say wha? That’s not slightly. That’s a massive drop and breaking the barrier.

That’s worse than Carter’s low by 4 pts and outside the MoE.