US Politics, June 2024: "Have there ever been this many cowards in power?"

Carrot Top?

I am curious if the loons who are so paranoid about their vote being changed will just not vote? And will that be a significant number of people?

Carrot Top?

Actually, God is among us on earth and he lives in Florida

― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), T

I'll PM you my address. Bring gin.

What if God was one of us
Drinking gin like some of us

I am curious if the loons who are so paranoid about their vote being changed will just not vote? And will that be a significant number of people?

― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, June 6, 2024 2:03 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I wondered this when I overheard a conversation in a card room that was like "Biden's gonna win, I'll tell you that right now, they'll make it happen" and I wondered the same. it would be really funny if Trump's rhetoric around the 2020 election actually did have the effect of supressing his own turnout in 2024

Anytime someone says "make it happen" I sing Mariah Carey, can't help it.

Trump put up a post recently encouraging mail-in votes, so presumably there's some vague recognition that the rhetoric may not have had a beneficial effect

lol does he? Orange Men Bad!!
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, June 6, 2024 3:03 PM bookmarkflaglink

in high school my family went to Steak 'n Shake and he was there. one of the waitresses chased him down for an autograph

Actually, God is among us on earth and he lives in Florida

Explains the floods.

the Everglades are the place God fouled himself

Trump put up a post recently encouraging mail-in votes, so presumably there's some vague recognition that the rhetoric may not have had a beneficial effect

― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, June 6, 2024 3:19 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Those simpletons are just going to mail in pieces of paper with TRUMP written in crayon

What if God was one of us
Drinking gin like some of us

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, June 6, 2024 2:04 PM (thirty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Just tryin' to make his way home
Ask him about Dirty Work
By the Rolling Stones

More of this

https://bsky.app/profile/karoli.bsky.social/post/3kubn65nick2k

lol I like it, I mean it's totally disengenuous since it's pretty doubtful Trump has ever even fired a gun but I like forcing the chuds to think about it

Mixing in some disingenuous or technically false stuff is good because it invites a rebuttal and a rebuttal necessary requires repeating the allegation. “Convicted rapist” would be even better.

Trump’s gun license to be revoked following conviction, media reports say

he can hold the wooden gun Will Ferrell had in The Other Guys

in a way, it doesn't get any more American than this! #bestspringsteensongever

"In a second message, from late on the night of Oct. 14, Mr. Biden acknowledged he was “sleeping on a car” and “smoking crack” behind the minor league baseball stadium in Wilmington, after buying drugs from a dealer named Mookie."

Seriously he’s more representative of america and americans than trump is

it would be really funny if Trump's rhetoric around the 2020 election actually did have the effect of supressing his own turnout in 2024

I kind of think Biden should show up at Hunter’s trial and act like a dad. I assume republicans would lose their shit about a president “influencing” a judicial matter, but to most ppl he would look like a dad that loves his kid. Contrast that with Trump who calls his 4 year old kid a loser

“It’s gonna be a hot summer” https://www.reuters.com/world/us/naacp-asks-biden-halt-weapons-israel-he-seeks-shore-up-black-voter-support-2024-06-06/

Has there been any polling amongst black people that shows this as a particular issue? Not asking sarcastically

https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2024/04/most-black-americans-want-a-more-active-us-role-in-ending-the-war-in-gaza-and-protecting-palestinian-lives?lang=en

That’s interesting but not really indicative of where it stands as a priority for black voters

RTFA

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/tnyradiohour/articles/senator-raphael-warnock-on-americas-moral-and-spiritual-battle

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/07/kari-lake-confederate-flag

this is rich:
Reached for comment about the video, a spokesperson for Kari Lake told the Guardian: “The Kari Lake campaign does not respond to British propaganda outlets. We stopped doing that in 1776.”

I'm putting this in the politics thread because it's fucking political. It's an article about the suicide rate in Montana (gift link), which is the highest in the country and only exacerbated by our gun laws, which amount to, "Would you like a gun? Here, have a gun." It's a tough read, but worthwhile.

Honestly the bit there that gave me a little hope was the preacher basically going "Yeah, you can't just pray it away."

Yeah, but then you get to the part where the high school's student counselor kills himself and...fuck.

No lie.

😞

Great read, thanks unperson.

I recommend it every time this issue comes up, but the phenomenon of right-wing white folks committing suicide yet refusing to alter or change the laws and culture of guns around them is addressed in a harrowing chapter of Jonathan Metzl’s ‘Dying of Whiteness,’ a truly essential and completely devastating book.

A great book, yes.

i went to KFC for lunch and saw an asshole with a t-shirt that I said "I protect my First amendment rights with my Second Amendment rights". these gun ghouls are just never going to die.

since I basically interpreted that as "I shoot people who disagree with me" I opted to leave him to his extra crispy and bounce.

i have a hard time leaving those ppl alone and my wife is worried i'm gonna get shot

growing up in rural Wisconsin I'm pretty used to seeing shit like that but yea when you take a moment to think about it comes off so psychotic, like I'm trying to imagine visiting another country and seeing people driving around with bumper stickers advertising how much they wanna shoot people, I'd think holy shit y'all are lunatics

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/sen-fetterman-injured-maryland-crash/3881810/

maybe this will jar something loose and he'll be less of a ghoul? lol, right.

for unknown reasons, the Traverse rammed into the rear of Fetterman's vehicle.

fess up, which of you was it

for unknown reasons pleasures, the Traverse rammed into the rear of Fetterman's vehicle.

oh then it was David Cronenberg

Hamas strikes again

When they wheeled Fetterman into the operating room he looked at the surgeons and said, "Please tell me you're genociders."

when i moved to DC i remember reading some stat that said the city had the most incidents of cars intentionally hitting other cars. i was pretty shocked at the time but now i am one of those ppl

When they wheeled Fetterman into the operating room he looked at the surgeons and said, "But doctor, I am Pagliacci."

Hamas strikes again

― frogbs, Monday, June 10, 2024

and they've got right
to take my place
in the Dem horse race

Now I know how Princess Di felt