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  • Kamala only had 3 months to campaign

    How’d it go when she had to participate in a primary?

    Granted she didn’t spend 32 years losing them like Biden did, but if memory serves me right she was so unpopular she dropped out before the first primary voted. Or maybe it was after the first one because she got zero delegates?

    People didn’t want Kamala, she was just the only other option. Just like with Biden, and before him Clinton.

    No one knows JD Vance either, he would have had an uphill battle as well

    Republicans are blindly loyal voters, if trump was shot every trump voter would have still voted R. And the few who couldn’t hold their nose for trump would have voted for JD

    Anyway you slice it, R votes would have gone up, D votes would have went down.

    Like, for 8 years now the entire Dem.platform has been “I’m not trump”…

    If you still don’t get it. I unfortunately can’t think of a simpler way to explain this


  • OP keeps spamming shitty memes that make zero sense…

    Pretty sure they’re just reposting a bunch of shit from reddit or Facebook.

    If trump was assassinated, JD would have beat Kamala by a shit ton more votes, maybe even gotten the popular vote win.

    The vast majority of people I know who voted D, did it with at least one hand clenching their noses, stopping trump was the only reason anyone I know would vote for a pro-fracking, pro-borderwall, pro-corp, empty suit with zero charisma or authenticy.

    Still 100% better than trump, but that’s the only reason she got any votes.

    Without trump Kamala wouldn’t have had a chance



  • All just ammo for the appeal.

    The shooter calmly walked away, and Luigi was arrested calmly in a McDonald’s.

    At no stage was there some crazy escape or shootout where something like this would be warranted in court, and things like this have been argued to have influenced potential jury members in past cases.

    Like, it’s one straw on a giant pile of better examples so far, but it all adds up. They’re gonna OJ this shit and go so hard it ends in a mistrial or something crazy.

    Especially since the trial is going to be a media circus and Trump won’t be able to keep his nose out of it, it’ll kill him that he won’t be the main attraction.

    The thing is, support for Luigi crosses party lines. It might be what causes a maga fracture if everything falls right.


  • How would they “just do it”?

    Federal taxes do not go thru states. They go from taxpayer to federal government at tax time, and from payroll processor to federal government for withholdings.

    You want states out there hacking transactions?

    Most payroll providers aren’t based in the same state, and most corporations don’t only operate in one state. Hell, most are headquartered in Delaware.

    For the vast amount of Americans that money doesn’t touch any states besides Delaware.

    Like, there’s a lot of reasons why what you’re suggesting just can’t happen.




  • I never understood why the N word is racist because of history, but then being black makes it fine to say

    Context.

    I have the complexion of a brand new piece of printer paper, one of my friends who legit could have gotten a job as a Wesley Snipes impersonator constantly called me the n word. He called all his friends that, and eventually I used it in the same context he had towards me for like the 50th time that day without me even realize I was saying it.

    It wasn’t a big deal, but it’s not like that magically gave me permission to say it anywhere at anytime.

    I mean, it’s 2025 man, there’s white people all over who have been saying the n word. The context is what matters. I just don’t get how someone could think it’s a (pun intended) black and white issue.

    Hell, the most popular rapper in America has been publicly complaining about how another black rapper says the n word. Flat out saying that it’s not a race thing it’s a culture thing. It was literally the outro to one of the biggest diss tracks of the biggest beefs in modern rap era.

    https://genius.com/Kendrick-lamar-euphoria-lyrics


  • I hate how vague the terms get when we only need 3:

    1. Progressives - ones that want things to improve

    2. Conservatives - ones that want things to get worse

    3. Dumbass cowards - who are so afraid of change that they’ll refuse to even fix the things conservatives are breaking. They change their own label a lot, but are most widely known as “neoliberals”, “third way Dems”, or “moderates”.

    But group 3 is why we need to stop using all the stupid labels, the same fucking people will say you can’t hold them accountable for their past failings because today they have a brand new label.

    But what they’re doing clearly hasn’t been working and their self chosen label isn’t why. So just changing the label of neoliberalism again isn’t going to fix anything.



  • I wonder where this movement started where people overly obsess about this

    Evolution.

    As a toddler you form your “in group” based on the people you see. Mostly that you are actually around, but also just exposed to on TV.

    Anyone that you’re not exposed to is “out group” and you can use conscious thinking as an adult to include others in your ingroup but when you get old and lose mental ability you’ll fall back into “did I see people like that as a kid” distinction for “us” vs “them”.

    For the vast amount of human history, if you ran into a group of different looking humans, they were a competitor and you either boned them or killed them.

    People want to act like 10,000 years of human society makes us better than other animals, but that’s a blink of evolutions eye, we’re still animals and if we’re not socialized we’re gonna act like animals.

    Can’t we already just treat people for who they are/their personality and not judge them by their skin color and also not prefer some ethnicities over others?

    We do that by integrating society and children’s TV with integrated casts of diverse people.

    Which is why conservatives and even some moderates opposed things like school busing and Sesame Street.

    They’re not picking random shit that doesn’t matter, they’re planning decades in advance to make sure the next generation can be manipulated into thinking along racial lines rather than realizing there’s no just war except a class war.

    Quick edit:

    We can see it in modern day with the obsession of preventing kids from learning LGBTQ is a thing, they want kids to form their “us” group as just heterosexuals so that when that generation grows up they’ll view anything LGTBQ as “them”.




  • About 75,000 workers have accepted buyouts,

    That’s OPM’s count…

    And it was 60k when applications closed.

    Agencies themselves literally just found out yesterday who had applied, and because the email was sent to literally everyone, lots of the people who applied weren’t eligible.

    They’re also saying people who took it can set a retirement date out to 12/31/25 now. Getting paid up till then, and letting it count towards years of service with retirement.

    Pretty much the only people taking it were set to retire before then, or brand new low level employees.

    None of this is saving really any money. But the point isn’t to save money, it’s to prevent agencies from doing their jobs. And if you can’t cut their budget, you make them light money on fire by paying employees to stay home.

    The don’t care that the money is being paid, they care that the work isn’t being done.


  • Conceivably, you could run trials by having a judge (or panel of judges) bring forth the evidence they thought was important.

    This is what cops are supposed to do.

    They’re supposed to investigate a crime and narrow down from “everyone” to “the person who did it”.

    Once they have enough evidence they bring it to the prosecutor who decides if it would win in court.

    Then the state presents that evidence to a judge, and the defendant gets to defend themselves.