It’s exactly the kind of problem that citizens United caused that we need to revert

I agree, but I think we both know Citizens United is never being repealed. It would take a violent, nationwide revolution to change the moneyed machinations of our political machine, especially now that SCOTUS put the stamp of approval on candidates loaning their campaigns money at interest.

It feels important to note that Harris and Trump don’t need your money.

If a candidate can sell $27,000,000 worth of favors off a single event in New York City, then remember that your friends, neighbors, and community are struggling and their mutual aid requests can use your $5-$10 donation much, much more than the POTUS candidates, both of whom have billionaires in their corner.

Bummer that they didn’t find him with some marijuana or something, a much, much more dangerous crime than committing actual treason.

/s

I had to share this when I saw that the AP had the gumption to finally use the ‘L’ word in the article’s headline, instead of some euphemistic bullshit like “misled” or “false claims”.

LIED, baby. Lied.

Finally.

The mainstream media is owned by billionaires. The real question is why you expect them to care about Project 2025?

Attorneys for the plaintiffs argued that six of the Trump Train drivers violated state and federal law. Lawyers for the defendants said they did not conspire against the Democrats on the bus and that their actions are protected speech.

I don’t know how, given the harassing and objectionable temperament of Trump supporters, that anyone could argue this with a straight face. How is it even a question that this was a violent incident? Because they didn’t fire a gun at the bus?

“As young people, we’re poised to inherit a world that needs thoughtful, informed leadership more than ever. But if we’re not even willing to watch a debate

I think it’s fair to say that Gen Z has seen enough of both major parties to know definitively that neither of the two leaders up for the job are going to do anything meaningful to change their lives in a positive way. Their entire lives they’ve watched presidents of both parties promise to raise wages, improve health care and education, and spend less on war. Instead, they’ve watched both of their parents working full-time jobs while still finding themselves unable to provide for the family’s needs and education.

And it isn’t lost on them that when money for a war or corporate bailout needs to happen, it happens overnight, every single time. During COVID the government even made a few trillion we didn’t have appear out of thin air overnight.

It’s unreasonable at this point to expect Gen Z to care. Why waste a badly-needed day’s work to vote when you have observed for your entire life that things stay consistent regardless of who’s elected?

I respect your honesty. I think gun control’s going to take a few steps backward before then, myself. We’ll see how it goes.

I like those headlines as much as the next guy, but a year from now, would it surprise you if these are still the only two instances of parents being held accountable?

I agree.

But I’d wager my life savings that laws holding parents accountable will either simply be unenforced or fail to pass in most of this country.

I want it to be different but it’s never going to happen. School shootings are a fact of American life whether we like it or not. That’s just reality.

He’s right.

They are.

It sucks, but he’s right.

which he wanted

Correction: He said he wanted it, but based on his actions, those words were just the usual empty politicking we’ve come to expect.

Thank you for the discussion.

It stands to reason we have a better chance seeing Trump finally brought to justice of hes defeated?

Based on what facts?

Harris hasnt had much actual say here thus far

She’s been a presidential candidate and a politician long enough that not having her platform publicly available on her website isn’t a mistake; it’s a deliberate omission.

Her platform is: Just trust me. Well, I can’t really do that when I just watched you waste four years that could have been spent trying to stop fascists, no?

This is not to say the democrats are perfect or even good

Their entire pitch 4 years ago was that they’d leverage the power of the Federal Government to stop fascism.

They had a mandate and did nothing except use the power of their offices to get wealthier, or in Biden’s case, keep his scumbag son out of jail.

I voted for Biden in full knowledge that the middle class would suffer because I thought what we’d seen from Trump would entail real, tangible action on the part of Democrats to purge the fascists from our government.

But it didn’t.

I have zero faith they’ll do anything to stop it now after watching them spend four years doing nothing about it, and it doesn’t make sense to me to argue that they’re some kind of conscientious alternative after what we’ve all seen them do these past four years.

If they’d done what they promised Trump wouldn’t even be able to run now. Let that sink in.

if it wasn’t for the affordable care act

I’m glad it worked out for you.

I think it’s a significant problem that it doesn’t work for the tens of millions of Americans who can’t withstand being price gouged. For them, the access promised by the ACA doesn’t exist.

And I think it’s significant (especially now) that Obama had the problem to make major, substantial change and didn’t. He had the power to codify abortion into law and didn’t. He had the power to pass the ENDA and didn’t. He had the power to enact universal health care and didn’t.

But he made absolutely sure no one involved in crashing the economy served any jail time, and in fact, rewarded them with our cash for their efforts.

Isn’t that wild?

That we have a legit fascist candidate, and the fascist is the only one willing to say publicly what they actually support? All Democrats have offered voters so far are variations on two memes: Joy and weirdness.

Kamala doesn’t even have policy positions on her website, which if you ask me, is basic functionality for any politician.

I understand that.

But the thing is, if you’re a wage earner, you’re already living in a dictatorship. You need 2-3 jobs to survive in this country, hardly the bastion of freedom it claims to be.

The Dems can meme about joy all they want, but if you’re a wage earner chances are pretty good you’re not feeling it.

I mean the number of broken promises is so extensive with Obama that you might as well have voted Republican instead.

That didn’t work on Obama or Biden.