As an American I need everyone to help me steer this conversation towards gun control or abortion.

I don’t care if evil monsters call me their enemy. I consider that a badge of honor.

I do care, however, if my own words can be used by those same monsters to mislead good people.

There’s dishonest people defining it that way, yes. And those people will pounce on poorly worded statements like “Israelis can’t co-exist with humanity” as point to it as a call for the extermination of Israel’s citizens and civilian population, and they will use it to convince honest people that it’s our goal.

When fighting dishonest people, you can’t afford to make stupid statements that give their lies cover.

I understand you’re saying that Israel cannot co-exist with the rest of the world in its current state and agree wholeheartedly. However, I would caution you to be careful with how you express it. Saying “Israelis cannot co-exist with humanity” can easily be mistaken by an honest person as a call for the extermination of the people living in Israel rather than the government that makes them Israeli.

We’re constantly having to deal with people falsely acuusing us of antisemitism for opposing Israel’s genocide. We can’t afford to be sloppy with our words and give them ammunition to use against us.

The GOP survives off of 2 single-issue groups. Gun rights groups and Pro Lifers are by far the most important single-issue voting groups in the country, and the GOP has a strong hold on them. Not because they hold a majority view (most people want stronger gun control and access to abortion), but because almost nobody is single-issue on the other side.

Imagine a hypothetical world where Joe Biden had been pro-life (because of his Catholocism) and Donald Trump had been pro-choice (because he thinks fetuses are children and murdering children makes him giggle), but their stances on other issues were unchanged versus reality.

Very few pro-choice people would have swapped to voting for Trump. But millions of pro-life people would have flipped to Biden.

It’s similar with guns.

This month

Spoken like someone who doesn’t know how city government works. The mayor isn’t their boss and he has no direct control over any officers beyomd something like declaring an emergency. That would be a bad thing.

I work in municipal government, and it’s a very good thing that the politicians can’t fire me when their Karen friends call. The mayor and Council hire specific high-level people like the City Manager and the municipal judge, and nobody else.

Any time and effort they spend fighting impeachment is less time they spend fucking up everything else.

The fucking better impeach him if given the chance, yeah.

That’s more difficult from a jurisdictional perspective. For instance, you may an intersection of 2 streets that are owned by the city and the county with signals owned by the state but under control of a regional transportation authority formed by an interlocal agreement of 20 separate jurisdictions.

We just did a contract in my city for a new traffic monitoring system for 3 signals in town and it involved the city, county, state, and 2 neighboring cities.

ALPRs are poisonous enough right now you wouldn’t get all 5 of those entities to sign on at once.

Well he is the one who took one to the head and survived.

Good thing there’s no prophecies about a megolmomaniac leader who engage in rampart corruption, mislead the religous, and survive an attempted assassination with a head injury while leading the world into an apocalypse.

That didn’t happen.

And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.

And if it was, that’s not a big deal.

And if it is, that’s not my fault.

And if it was, I didn’t mean it.

And if I did, you deserved it.

“MLK never held a speech defending trans rights, therefore he was a bigot who hated trans people.”

The Republicans’ entire existence is due to 2 single-issue voting groups. Pro-Life and Pro-gun.

You can’t follow teachings of Jesus and be a Republican.

Christ said to pay your taxes, that hoarding wealth is a sin, and he flipped shit (and tables) over the commercialization of faith in the temple.

He threatens Hell one time (Matthew 25), and it’s for the mistreatment of the poor, hungry, sick, imprisoned, and foreigners.

You’re describing everyone’s MAGA uncle.

They’ve absolutely been on the wrong side before, but they’ve also acknowledged past mistakes. Climate change is a big example.

We’re all wrong about stuff - and that’s okay. It’s what we do after we learn we’re wrong that matters.

I grew up in a time and place that had me believing homosexuality was immoral and that white men were being discriminated against by affirmative action. What I believed was wrong, and is not representative of who I am now. But I didn’t have social media or a television network keeping a record of every time I said something awful.

They have to pretend he’s alive until the 3rd. A Kentucky law passed in 2024 requires a special election to be held to fill vacant Senate seat. But that law doesn’t apply if the vacancy occurs within 90 days of the seat being up for election.

Mitch’s seat being empty is better for the fascists than the risk of a Democrat taking the seat in the leadup to an election the GOP plans on fucking with.

That part will never happen. No matter what - he’s getting away with it. He’s too old to face any real consequences.

What we need to ensure is that responsibility doesn’t end with him. We need a new round of Nuremberg trials and his cronies and enablers need to be held to account.

No mercy. Those in the military who executed illegal orders should be court-martialed and executed.

It’s both.

I used to be close family friends with a man who is now a Congressman. He was my air conditioning repairman when I was little, and when he moved to DC without the wealth many other politicians had, he had a hard time paying for things like having houses in DC and back in the district.

He ended up doing little favors here and there to help pay rent, and it was a slippery slope to him becoming super corrupt.

We no longer speak.