“Your regret for voting for me confirms I’m doing a good job,” Rubio fired back.

We now run our foreign policy based entirely on what pisses off Liberals the most…

If we do end up in a fascist hellhole here, a lot of the blame will go to both Biden and RBG. If they both yielded to younger leaders at the proper time, we would not be quite so fucked over now.

Why should he care? He already has his own Pope.

I highly doubt that Jill is keeping a close personal eye on his prostate…

Hey, dont kink-shame…

Yup. For those who are not aware, they structured that district specifically so that all lawsuits filed in certain zip codes in Amarillo go to this guy. So any time they need a convenient MAGA cout ruling, they find someone in Amarillo to file the lawsuit over it.

“What I want to know is how did Dr. Jill Biden miss stage five metastatic cancer or is this yet another coverup???”

Does this guy think Jill Biden has a medical degree? Her doctorate is in education. This is yet another case of a MAGAt showing how ignorant he is just by opening his mouth…

(Now that I read the link, it looks like this was Trump Jr, so the ignorance tracks…)

The real problem is Citizens United, which held that money is speech. As long as that ruling holds, we will be ruled by the ones with the most money.

And right now, that group is the TechBros who ran the right software at the right time in 2011 and are now sitting on a stash of crypto worth billions…

It’s so much more than the EC. The EC was really the best solution that they could come up with to elect a single person to run the Executive in a time where it was hard to hold statewide elections, much less a nationwide one. Senators were appointed directly by a State’s legislature, and the President by electors appointed by the legislatures. This meant that the only Federal office that was directly voted on was Congress, making elections easier and much more local.

As long as elections were hyper-local, settling them based on a simple plurality of votes was practical, because it was also hard to coordinate nationally. The Founders did not want the same type of party-driven system they left in England. However, the big mistake was in keeping the FPTP voting after they switched to popular elections for Senate and the Presidency. That, coupled with better nationwide communication, directly contributed to out two-party system, and how backwards it is.

The two-party system directly contributed to America’s sliding into fascism, when the only alternative to fascism is itself too drunk on campaign cash to let new blood into the system. But the primary issue is how throughly Trumpism has infiltrated the Republican Party, where they willingly give up their checks on the Executive and let him break laws with impunity. The Founders explicitly distributed power because they thought ambitious people would not give up power willingly. Today’s Republicans are proving they were wrong.

Sorry, WaPo links will always be totally ignored by me until Jeff Bezos sells the thing to someone who cares about an independant press.

He already did release a bunch of terrorists with orders to target his enemies. They’re all the J6ers he pardoned.

He’s such a stupid mother fucker.

In this case, quite literally. He has had at least 14 documented children with multiple women, and there are rumors of plenty of others.

You’re not wrong, but the Democratic Primary is not set up to pick the best candidate. It’s set up to coronate the one who is next in line.

When Obama won in 2008, it was actually an aberration. The party made sure to fix it in 2016, when thet shut down the old Socialist’s campaign in order to coronate the first woman President. How did that turn out?

If there were a primary in 2024, they would have put their finger on the scale again to pre-nominate someone. The only open question would have been if they were compelled to nominate someone without a penis again. It seems too many voters see having a penis as a requirement for the job. So if it came down to the quasi-incumbent, penis-lacking VP against an individual experienced, penis-having contender, then it might have an actual contest.

Sure, but that “genuinely popular candidate” may still have been Harris, or even worse, Gavin Newsom. Even though neither would have won the Lemmy Primary …

It’s definitely something you can learn in just a few lessons, particularly if you are just driving around town here and there. There’s a rhythm and muscle memory to it, and once you get it, it becomes super easy.

I think I traded in my last stick-shift (a Jetta) 13+ years ago, and there are still times when I am driving and my left foot instinctively moves toward an invisible clutch…

It’s possible that this time is different.

Trump’s budget will absolutely bust the deficit, because it relies on “savings” from DOGE that doesn’t exist, and uses that to cut taxes further. There is at least token opposition from these folks who have campaigned on reducing the deficit and know their party is lying about it.

But let’s face it. It is more likely that this is all just performative. These guys hold things up just long enough to get some token concessions, and they can campaign on the fact that they “stand up” to both sides.

I never understood the problem with what Hogg is doing. No politician should ever think their seat is safe. Every primary should be contested. If the incumbant is doing a good job, they will win, and the party gets behind them. But if the incumbent loses a primary, then they were probably not doing a good job to begin with.

What’s wrong with that?

Y’all Qaeda

He was very familiar with that “drained of hope” look because many of his ex-girlfriends had that same look

Shit, I need to change the password on my luggage…

(That joke hasn’t aged well, because the TSA has keys to unlock all our luggage now…)

This is the first I’ve heard of sign-up forms. Got a link for that?

Still, though, there are all those Jan 6’ers who already committed violence for this man once, and they were rewarded for it. I think it’s certainly they will sign up to do violence for him again.