I love fall. I mostly dress the same as I did in summer, but greatly enjoy the cool morning air and generally nice days. Fall and spring are my favorites.

Looking at both the content and style of this report below, it seems likely related to or linked from it, but I couldn’t quite bottom it out either.

This report is 2022 only, FWIW: https://www.adl.org/resources/report/murder-and-extremism-united-states-2022

I grabbed it from a meme myself (likely grabbed by someone else from Meidas) - I appreciated that they left the sources at the bottom but didn’t chase it further, sorry.

https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/2023-02/Murder-and-Extremism-in-the-United-States-in-2022.pdf (I think this is pdf of the html above)

Relevant, but not, I believe, from that report directly.

some see ‘extinction level event’ if party loses

Oh no! Won’t someone think of the fascists!

Very on-brand for Republicans.

There has been rising anti-American sentiment for decades. (Deservedly in many cases.) What they are sounding the alarm over is that Trump has edged it across the line where they have to care.

The reaction to Mangione was an indicator, and the oligarchs saw it even if the politicians didn’t. Same thing here, IMO.

https://youtu.be/Q2DFCP0tBEg?t=7

Edit- I thought that would only be the gifts and small penis gag as per the article. Will replace with a better clip if I can find one.

This is actually much more plausible than my theory. Thanks for the reminder! :D

Yep. Her performative involvement is done.

I’m really starting to wonder if this is the issue that reminded MTG she’s a human being though.

If I click this, am I again going to find that “maga turns on Republicans” is again just three or four angry magas on Truth Social or X?

For context, I’m fucking old.

I was registered independent for literally my entire life until the trump years began. Then I registered D, only to then witness what is now commonly touted - D fights at least as hard against progressive Democrats as they do against conservative Republicans, sometimes harder. (Witness Mamdani/Cuomo, Pelosi knifing AOC in the back to get her version of “youth” into power - a 74 year old terminally ill boomer - Nancy is silent generation afterall, etc etc, etc.)

I considered changing back to independent after watching Kamala campaign real hard for Republican votes, and especially after David Hogg’s exit, because it’s pretty clear to me that they haven’t learned a fucking thing, and since I know they are all smart people, part of me is starting to seriously consider the “they are fighting exactly as hard as they want to” angle.

But I’m going to wait until I see who they put into the presidential primary, and until I see how that primary is conducted.

Having said all that, Kamala was my last vote for a conservative Democrat. I need to see progressive voices being platformed and progressive policies being seriously considered, or else I’ll be switching back to Independent after this next one. (Assuming we keep getting elections, of course.)

We’ve made it all the way to modern-day Hitler with D returning to the well of “but Republicans are evil, you have to vote for us” over and over and over. They can’t ratchet up the fear tactics any further. We’ve hit the ceiling. They pulled the “vote for us or Hitler will win” card, then Hitler won. They can’t dangle something worse than that in front of us next time. So they will have to compete on something better than the other party being the party of Hitler.

If conservative or “centrist” Democrats who aren’t Hitler continues to be all they know how to sell, I’m done buying. And I wish I’d learned this lesson decades ago.

That’s a very lengthy way to say “I’m not fucking surprised.” But also, I think there’s a decent chunk of likely D voters who have always been registered I, and I also think it’s pretty clear after the last election that a good chunk of D is sending a vote of no confidence to the party.

I’d love to see Florida flip blue, but this is the state that put DeSantis in power. I’m not sure florida becoming more red is surprising nor any kind of bellwether.

It sort of does have that look, doesn’t it.

It’s working out OK over here. No interactions with known magas (or any conservative for that matter) that aren’t obligated by work or family.

I’m about five years into that philosophy and really, yeah, I’m feeling loads better.

In other news, water is wet. I can only think how fortunate that one person must be who has no maga in their life, and had to read this study to learn this.

It’s their job to show me they support my values

Good day.

It’s their job to show me they support my values, not my job to convince myself they do, then hope I’m right.

Identifying the problems is how we come up with solutions.

You are trying to treat the symptom, not the problem.

Choosing blame over change is a time honored establishment-Democrat tradition so I get it. You do you man, some people find that more comforting anyhow.