As others have said, this is about the bigger picture. If Clinton was involved with the Epstein Child-Fucking ring, he should go down. Anyone who has been part of the Epstein Child-Fucking ring should go down, honestly. I think that’s the one thing we and Conservatives can agree on. Child Fuckers are bad. Problem is: It’s super-easy to categorise the Other Side as childfuckers while ignoring the childfuckers on our own side. expatriado was just making it clear that they are OK with Clinton (and presumably other Left-leaning childfuckers) being caught up in this if we get all the Republicans involved in this shit as well.

Not that I expect we will. The Epstein Files will be curated so they only hit Dems as long as the Shitgibbon is in charge.

Here’s hoping. I think it’s time to see what some ‘self-described socialists’ can do against the donkey pee vs elephant dung contest.

Uh, no? I want an EV, though I want a small one that has a light touch on the environment. It’s true that I don’t want one that’s from a Nazi wannabe, but I do want an EV that has decent range and can transport my wife and me for daily tasks. But maybe I don’t catch the attention of US EV makers because I’d rather an e-bike than an E-SUV?

I can’t speak for others, but I upvoted based on this being meaningful content that we all need to see. I’d downvote the rich as jerks who are pushing for sucking more money out of Canada’s economy for their personal edification, though, and maybe that’s what the downvotes really are, but you know how it is on Lemmy, or Reddit, for that matter. If it’s not a bot or sock puppet operated by some group or another acting to ‘shape discourse’, it’s some braindead idiot who has been caught up in those groups. Hopefully actual thinkers will be around soon enough to upvote you out of the negatives. And if not, just shrug. You’re not deep in the negatives, and you aren’t doing anything wrong highlighting this nonsense.

There is a very serious rot in the USA. It’s the kind of rot that says empathy is a sin and that kindness is weakness. It’s the kind of rot that says hate and bigotry are good, and kindness and acceptance are what’s wrong with society. That America is best when it is what Liberals say is worst. And don’t delude yourself. The rot is much higher than the 40% cited in this poll, for 100% of the Republicans and a decent chunk of independents would vote for the shitgibbon over anything on the Left because they’ve drank the koolaid from Team Red about Team Blue. And if that’s not bad enough, enough Team Blue has drunk the Russian koolaid and will stay home or vote third party to enable Team Red to steal things and break shit.

They’d rather a ‘childfucker-in-chief’ to borrow Steve’s line than have a Dem in charge. Both groups.

My wife and I have location sharing enabled in case something happens to one of us. We usually don’t use it, but its good to have when we need to meet up at an unfamiliar place after something goes sideways for one of us.

But if your SO doesn’t trust you enough to allow you private moments and would accuse you of cheating, your relationship isn’t based on trust and thus is very weak.

Came here to say this.

It’s ugly, and it looks like it jumped off the screen from the Cyberpunk 2077 world. It’s poorly built and ineffective at the job it was designed to do. And then Elon did his thing, and now it’s irrevocably tied to a dead Mid-20th Century ideology that the entire world fought to dismantle. I’m glad it’s falling by the wayside. An object lesson – don’t build stupidly engineered items, and don’t tout murderous ideologies that get a majority of the world against you.

Do you really think that the USA de-federalising would end the culture wars?

I don’t. I think what would happen is Red States would form militias and go outright and attack Blue States. They’d try to kill as many liberals as possible, driving them away and out of power. They’d not rest until the last Blue State was crushed under their jackbooted heels. And those people would be the exact reason why the chance of this happening would be slim to none.

We can only hope that this is what pulls the Trump Coalition apart. It’s a hard thing, though. They’re a bunch of knuckleheads!

Message to Europeans from an American.

It’s time to start looking for other trading partners. Canada and Mexico come to mind. So does South America and Africa as a whole. Be ready for us to shit the bed in epic fashion, and make sure you’re not in the poo position. And don’t be afraid to punish us for our BS. Just be strategic with the payback and don’t copy our fails.

I’m not going to join the downvote brigade because I do appreciate your position, but I will say…

…these people have had PLENTY of space to change who they are and how they vote. They had 4 years of ‘finding out’ after they fucked around in 2016. And we warned them, big time, what a vote for him in 2024 would mean. How much space will you and others like you give these people. That’s the question of the hour.

“But but but…I’m one of the GOOD ones!!! DON’T DEPORT ME!!! JUST THE PEOPLE I DON’T LIKE!!!” 🤣

I mean, the evidence is right there.

In 2020, 81 million people turned out for Biden. That number decreased to 75 million in 2024.

In 2020, 74 million people turned out for Trump. That number increased to 77 million in 2024.

In 2020, roughly 2.9 million people turned out for a third party candidate. Of these, 1.8m went Libertarian, with 407k for Green. In 2024, 2.9 million turned out for a 3rd party. This time it broke 862k for the Greens, 756k for Junior (I refuse to sully the Kennedy Name with him!), and 650k for the Libertarians.

Explicit evidence that requires a minimum of data science skills to process. 6 million people who voted for Biden didn’t turn out for Harris, while Trump somehow got 3 million more people to vote for him. Meanwhile, support for the Libertarians cratered by 1.2m, and support for the Greens doubled from 407k to 862k. And Junior? He was explicitly in the race to hurt Dems. So, another 756k added to the Dem ‘alternative’ vote, now split between two parties. So, from 1.8m spoiling the Right in 2020 to 1.6m spoiling the Left.

The data is there if you’re willing to look. All 1.6m of those people who voted Green or Junior for some strange reason? They voted for this. Just like the 6 million people who voted for Biden in 2020 and didn’t in 2024, or the unknown number of people, estimated betwen 90m and 100m, who sat home. And of course, the 77 million who voted directly for Trump. Every last one of these people, save the fraction of the 77 million who want what Trump promised, could have had a seat at the table and a voice at trying to drive the monolith that is US policy, but they elected to surrender their agency.

I know you don’t like to hear this, but everyone who made those choices above has surrendered this country to Fascism. And I’m not sorry for calling it out.

News flash: Everyone you mention is getting blame.

We’re not absolving the 77 million (to correct your numbers) Trump voters. In fact, this is explicitly called out whenever someone says “This is not what I voted for!” on Team Red. Especially when we say “Oh, no, this is exactly what you voted for, but you voted for it to happen to other people. Suck it up, buttercup!”

And the 100 million non-voters? They are EXACTLY who are being called out by someguy3. I mean, ‘protest-non-voters’ explicitly belong in the group of 100 million who don’t vote.

And don’t forget a lesson everyone old enough to vote should have learned a loong, loong time ago. We don’t always get what we want. When the choices are “Greater Evil” and “Lesser Evil”, which they are all too often, either you vote “Lesser Evil” or accept the consequences of “Greater Evil”. 100 million people said they couldn’t be bothered to choose, and 2 million thought they had a viable alternative beyond “Greater Evil” and “Lesser Evil” and threw their votes away for distraction candidates.

And here we are. Enjoy your Mango Mussolini. That’s the guy you picked with all the ranting you did above, assuming you didn’t swallow your pride and vote Harris in '24. In that case, other people making your argument picked Mango Mussolini for all of us.

Eeeyep. And my reply to them?

“You did. You absofuckinglutely did. History has proven time and time and time and (four hours later) time again that right-wing dictatorships do EXACTLY what the Shitgibbon’s administration is doing. You voted for it. You just hoped it’d happen to the people you didn’t like. News flash. They don’t like you. So, pack your bags and drop your shorts. The Dildo of Consequences has arrived, and as usual, it is not lubed. Enjoy!!!”

That’s why I’m not down on Fetterman’s voters. Hell. I won’t be down on them next General if the choice is him or a GQP shill. That’s the thing about people like Susan Collins. At the end of the day, we have no leverage on her. She answers to the GQP, not to us. Fetterman knows he’s leashed by the DNC. He is risking a lot stepping out of line. Committee assignments. Connections. After-Retirement positions. He keeps fucking around, his only play will be switching parties. Once he does that, he’s not a Democrat anymore. Until then, however, he has to to deal with our pressure (and after, well, he’ll have to deal with the GQP’s pressure…and we’ll see how much he’s willing to throw away for power!)

It is not a good faith question.

Many people took your words to heart and sat out, voted third party, or, worst of all, voted Shitgibbon. Now, not only are we funding Israel to bomb Gaza, we’re planning on starting World War 3 with Iran. Stupid is as stupid does, and this is the biggest tent of stupid in the world.

Easiest way here is make losing citizenship a criminal charge, with the whole ‘appointed lawyer’ and ‘burden of proof’ that designation includes. That’s one thing a Dem “Project 2029” should include.

I love it. Here’s the full expression of distaste from the people of Scottland for that jerk: “Tiny fingered, Cheeto-faced, ferret wearing shitgibbon.”