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https://www.npr.org/2024/10/30/g-s1-30644/supreme-court-virginia-elections Why the US may already be screwed. The Supreme Court effectively nullified a law, by fiat, in a move favouring Trump's election.

That's the only counter argument I will really consider. That nothing will change because things are already irrevocably in the crapper and Trump's term already derailed things enough.

Uh, statistics say that's just not true. The cost of living has increased a lot more than wages, and life is now costlier on average than it ever was in the post war period. This new robber baron era of extreme deregulation and lower tax revenues will only exacerbate this tendency, as the lower and middle classes lose social protections and purchasing power. With the House and the Senate being increasingly unable to legislate anything and the Supreme Court insulating the presidency from consequences for any bad actions it may take the US are in for a really bad time, with guard rails significantly weakened.

https://bsky.app/profile/sonic.bsky.social/post/3l7lkwmn6ks2t Kamala Harris' campaign has set up an island in Fortnite, another foray into the gaming space for Democrats. Trump's campaign also has an in-game presence as the antagonists in the classic franchise "Wolfenstein"

The American political class has really sold their country down the river. If Trump wins you guys are definitely set on a catastrophic path you'll never get away from. And maybe the world too.

The problem with Afghanistan wasn't if it was legitimate but rather how the US handled everything after the successful invasion. No follow through.

https://www.comicsbeat.com/pierre-christin-dead/

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1841644041219256496.html A helpful thread.

It has also been established several times that Trump is lying about that and only started lying about that when it became clear project 2025 was deeply unpopular.

I don't think pointing this out will help any, but if one candidate is stating facts, or at least well founded opinions, and the other is just stating bald faced lies, someone saying both candidates need to tone down their rhetoric strikes me as either ignorant or just dishonest. And specifically dishonest in favour of the liar.

My problem with Taylor Swift is that she isn't even bad. Just so bland, generic, nondescript.

A lot of people are just that ignorant of the world around them, and not in the conspiracy rabbit hole sense. They are ignorant of things just because they are for the most part entirely uninterested in things that are consequential.

It was twenty degrees here at midnight yesterday, which was weird.

Don't threaten me with a good time.

He was saying and doing racist things long before he went into politics.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/lollaparooza/crazy-parodies-of-the-last-supper-8s5g?sub=1992906_839049 Article from 2013. Sopranos, Simpsons, South Park, House, Lost, Mash, DC Comics, Battlestar Galactica and more.

Harris' campaign.

Actual official statement.

Yes, I have to concede that the venal liars said something that they feel is politically expedient, so we have no choice but to believe them. Oh, well.

Whitmer has said she wants to see out her governorship. Buttigieg for that extra wokeness, I guess? I do think the Dems' only play is to draw as much attention as possible to drive up turn out.

It's like the weirdest bit someone has ever committed to.

So according to BruceVC logic the GOP is also in favour of abortion because some republicans, or their daughters, or their wives or their mistresses have had abortions. https://joycearthur.com/abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-my-abortion/ I mean who cares if the policies they actively support are openly against the LGBTQ population, the immigrant population, the population of colour? What matters is that they have a friend who once watched RuPaul's drag race.

Both sides.

I don't see how Biden getting reelected is that big reverse shift or even how there's a path towards it, at all, beyond an outright cataclysm resetting things in some way. Basically, my worry is that the political course we are in is already inevitable, and that we cannot hope for better beyond delaying it, especially when big financial interests have already significantly compromised the systems in place originally designed to avoid what is already happening.