I’ve been saying this to my naturalized citizens friends since the beginning: They don’t even respect Birthright Citizenship, and that’s for people who were actually born here. They certainly aren’t going to respect citizenship granted by some other administration.

Bottom Line: If you were born somewhere else, they want you out.

Yeah, maybe like a separate legislature in each state, to take care of the local issues.

Oh wait, they already have that, and they tend to be even more corrupt than the Feds, current administration excepted.

First of all, he doesn’t KNOW anything. Literally. He is profoundly ignorant, easily the dumbest person to ever occupy the presidency. It’s isn’t even close. He is mind-bogglingly STUPID.

So he knows what he wants, and he thinks wishes are facts, and repeats them with the full confidence of the narcissistic simpleton. Don’t mistake that confidence for competence, or anything else. He’s a Sociopath, who has learned to hide it under bluster and noise. He’s just shouting like a crazy homeless person. It doesn’t make any sense, why would you listen to it?

You are under no obligation to believe it, or worry about it. He thinks he can rig the election by gerrymandering a few extra House seats, but that isn’t going to get him anywhere near the number of seats he needs, and he’s not taking into account the 5-10 MAGA seats that are almost certainly going to be surpirse flips that nobody will know about until election night.

He’s trying to convince you not to vote. Instead of listening, you have between now and November to convince at least one friend who wasn’t going to vote, to finally do it, especially if you are in a red state or district. That’s where the flips will happen, and we need all the votes we can get.

Designated driver.

I’m not disagreeing on specifics, but hating Congress isn’t a new thing. Congress has ALWAYS had a very low approval rating by the voters, no matter which party they belong to, or which party is running things, how the economy is running, whether we have a war, etc. Congress has always sucked, and voters have always hated them, although they always support their own Rep, which is why incumbency is so high, despite the hate.

Most of who is left are the ones who are either rich enough that they want to keep gorging at the corruption trough, or are so stupid they don’t know how to turn way.

We’ll never do anything about that first group, except punish them harshly when we get the chance, but the stupid ones can be influenced by others who were like them and finally saw the light, and those people are starting to speak out. Carlson has been very noisy, and MTG just posted that TDS now stands for Trump Disappointment Syndrome. MAGAs are very susceptible to that sort of stupid propaganda, and that’s the kind of thing that could spread widely among MAGA dopes, like the original meaning did.

It will take time, but we still have 2 1/2 years to work on them. It’s unlikely that their love for Trump will increase. It’s not like he’s suddenly going become competent. At this point, just sowing doubt is a win. As more and more shit piles on top of them, those doubts will flourish, and eventually take over.

Trump said no one could have predicted Iranian attacks on other Middle Eastern countries. His advisers had warned him

“They weren’t supposed to go after all these other countries in the Middle East,” he said Monday at a Kennedy Center board meeting. “Those missiles were set to go after them. So, they hit Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait. Nobody expected that. We were shocked.”

Every single person on the planet knew Iran would respond exactly the way they did, that’s why no past president did it. It wasn’t because they were cowardly, or stupid, or feckless, it was because it was a TERRIBLE idea.

But terrible ideas are Trump’s superpower, so here we are.

Republicans continuing their quest ATTEMPT to dilute the impact and meaning of the word treason.

They can try, but we don’t have to accept their bullshit rationalizations or excuses or lies, like our Democratic leaders have in the past. These psychopaths think they can make something true just by saying it, no matter how outlandish, but the Dems are the ones who make it true by accepting it.

Stop that. Call them out for their nonsense. When Trump does something like thinking he’s buying another 60 days without Congressional approval for his war, because he “declared” the end of military operations, then Threatened to bomb the shit out of them a few hours later, it’s the Dems who decide if they are going to grant him his wish, and they always do.

Just Say No. And then start arresting MAGAs who don’t comply.

The US is not winning anything, anywhere, in any way. Until Trump is gone, and MAGA has been crushed, and it’s followers either imprisoned, or chased back under their slimy rocks, America will continue to be the biggest shithole country on the planet.

Valid. I wish more people could apply some Critical Thinking Skills, and think maturely.

He only know the Internet from his phone. I doubt he’s spent a single minute on a real computer in years. He’s probably one of those ancient assholes who brags that he hates computers, and doesn’t even know how to turn it on. I love that “brag.”

The price of gas is an extremely powerful weapon that Dems need to use. To the average American, it is the equivalent to what the Dow is to rich people. It is the prime economic indicator for the majority of Americans. It doesn’t just represent the price of gas, it represents the economic environment we are in.

For decades, Americans have tied their perception of the economy to the price of gas. When gas goes up, it means our country is having a major problem, and that affects EVERYTHING else. Time and experience have socialized us to believe this. The higher it goes, the tighter people get with their money, and they stop spending it. We are in that stage right now. After Consumer Confidence being -11 percent for the first quarter, it dropped to -38 in April. We have already gone off the cliff, and it’s going to start showing very soon.

The price of gas is posted on literally EVERY corner, and it represents far more than a few more cents out of our pockets. It’s a constant daily reminder of the state of our economy, and more importantly, whose fault it is.

MAGA is going around saying that the shutdown is over and they got everything they wanted. Meanwhile, ICE is still effectively shutdown, which is good. They can stay “shut down” forever.

Why are there gay MAGAs?

I’m convinced that the church has always seen the molestation of boys as a recruitment strategy. Most go on with their lives after being abused, but some probably learn to like it, and they stay in the church, and then do it themselves. This has probably been a pattern for literally centuries, and is responsible for a significant number of recruits.

Celibacy has never been a strong draw, any other strategy that brings in recruits can’t be easily dismissed.

Todd Flinstone, Fred’s uglier and stupider brother.

Jesus, write a book why don’t you

Yeah, it’s funny how the truth and facts don’t always fit into a single paragraph. When you make a wildly ridiculous sweeping allegation, and EVERY fact contradicts it, it takes time to properly tear it all down, only to have you double down with “Don’t bother me with facts, my mind is made up, and you’re a big poopy head.” Nice.

for most of this country’s history we did not choose a presidential candidate until late August.

We still do, when do you think it happens? It happens at the conventions, which happen at the end of the summer.

I know I’m really stupid, so let’s review the time line:

June 27 - Biden tanks the debate in shocking fashion

July 15 - Republican convention, where Trump is nominated for President.

July 21 - Biden dropped out

August 19-22 - Democratic Convention

November 5 - Election Day

So, Biden blows the debate, and wastes 3 weeks before dropping out.That left a month to have a national primary in 50 states, in time for the convention. And before you suggest the convention can be postponed - it can’t, especially a month out. Too many plans, reservations, tickets, deposits, arrangements, caterers, entertainment, etc.

And even if they could, when do they move it to? The election was only about 8 weeks beyond that, and the Republicans had already been running their candidate since a week before Biden dropped out. How much time were the Dems supposed to waste, so they could finally launch their candidate to go after Trump 2 weeks before the election, probably with Harris as the nominee anyway? Who had a chance of beating her, especially on such short notice, and after she’s been essentially running for the last 4 years? Go ahead, I dare you to say Bernie.

What a fucking joke, we had to choose a doomed to fail candidate because there is only 4 plus months left. We need that time to fundraise! Fat lot of good that did you huh?

Yeah, she lost anyway, due to several factors, none of which had anything to do with no primary, but to believe that the chaotic shitshow that you’re suggesting would somehow have been better, is delusional.

Admit it motherfucker, you were wrong and we were right. Which is to say left.

Nope, I just explained how wrong you were, and how your fantasy was literally impossible. I’m not a fan of either, but none of it was Harris’ fault, or even the DNC’s for that matter. It’s just one more way that Biden failed us when it was most important, by not dropping out. He did few good things, but on balance, his term was a disaster. He’ll settle into the Bottom 15 of presidents.

You can’t use 2024 as an example, that was the sole outlier of an election, and did not represent anybody’s best wishes.

You act like they did it out of pure contempt for the voters, without addressing the fact that the Democratic campaign became a 3 alarm fire after the debate. Biden was a mess, far more than we knew, and it was clear he was unfit to serve another term, even if it was due to the poor excuse of a cold and medication. I’ve lived with someone who passed from dementia, and there was no doubt in my mind what I was witnessing that night. It was shocking, and something had to be done.

With only a few months before the General Election, it would have been impossible to put together a nationwide primary with multiple candidates. Anyone who thinks that would have been possible, has no idea what goes into holding an election, especially a national Presidential election in 50 states. In the time frame you want candidates to decide, raise money, and campaign, while simultaneously the election teams that have been organizing the Presidential Election now have to split off valuable workers, to operate this emergency primary, mere months before the actual PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

How can anyone possibly think that would go well for anyone, and not be a monumental disaster of historical proportions?

OTOH, we have a Vice-President, next in line anyway, and if he steps down, she steps in, and we’re doing a re-election campaign. The only problem was that nobody wanted to have the hard talk with him (and his family, they always said, because yeah, it’s clear he can’t handle this on his own), or to 25th Amendment the venerable old guy, even though his condition was EXACTLY what it was meant to handle.

And it wasn’t like anyone could make a credible case that she wasn’t a viable nominee anyway. She wasn’t a Sarah Palin by any stretch of the imagination. There were all these comparisons to her past primary, as if she didn’t just spent the last 4 years at the very top levels of power. In anyone else’s job, how much stronger would they be if they spent four years working with the top people in their industry? Nobody would question it. In a primary, especially a chaotic emergency one, it’s a pretty good bet that she would have won anyway.

So it was essentially a re-election campaign for the (v)P, with just that pesky resignation step missing, because they were either too polite to press the issue (so common for weak Dems), or he was too stubborn to quit, which would be a common trait for dementia, believe me.

Most people recognized that at the time, and that’s why we accepted her with open arms. Lest you forget, she raised an enormous amount of money in the next 24 hours, and even more beyond that. I happened to go to a corporate event the next day, with a lot of lesbians in attendance, and they were practically giddy with joy.

The idea that people opposed this oppressive edict from the DNC is greatly overblown. It wasnt the ideal situation, but Harris was a reasonable choice under the extreme emergency circumstances.

There were a lot of other factors that came into play, like MAGA voter fraud, Biden’s enthusiastic support of genocide, etc.

they just anointed the most unpopular candidate they could find.

BOTH parties do that! The system seems to filter out the best candidates, and reward the worst. If there was ever proof that the system is broken, it’s that.

UnConstitutional. 1st Amendment. Disbarred.