I underestimated just how deeply ingrained the two party system and "voting matters" was in the general population.
Or at least in certain generations. We are living in two different timelines.
You're scared to death of things that might happen while we want accountability for the things that already have.
We are not afraid because we can take care of ourselves. Thankfully because the republicans proved to be nothing but lame duck Weenies.
The government isn't going to save you. The Republicans are not going to stop Jihad from coming into the US if the great replacement theory is accurate.
Both parties want the same thing. And by voting you're taking the responsibility off of them when the bottom falls out.
The conversation needs to change from lesser of two evils to what can we do now.
Republicans, "We're sorry, reelect us and we'll do better".
Ffs, you could be doing something right now, you still have 6 weeks before the midterms but you decided to take a long recess.
@SharylAttkisson Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Institutions that deceived us should never be given any authority, deference, credibility, or benefit of the doubt. Once corrupt, they must be dismantled and replaced with trustworthy institutions. That hasn’t happened yet.
@ZeekArkham So you want to scare people with things that haven't happened yet while they're sitting here watching nothing be done about the things that have?
People have eyes to see and ears to hear.
They were European, they were largely Christian, there was no welfare, AND EVEN THEN it was too much for the U.S. to absorb so we banned immigration for 50 years to get a handle on things.
This is Matthew Perna. He believed in fair elections. He voted in the 2020 election and believed it was fraudulent. He went to DC to "let his voice be heard". Nothing changed. The election results were not overturned because, the Republicans sat there and did NOTHING.
He was arrested BEFORE Biden was sworn in. He watched the inauguration with the hopes that there would be an announcement saying the results were overturned. But they weren't, because the Republicans did NOTHING.
He had never been arrested before. So he (and others) began calling several Republican congress members seeking help. Not one call was returned, because the Republicans looked the other way and did NOTHING.
So at 37 years old, he pled guilty and thought he was facing 6-12 months in prison. Then the DOJ informed him they were seeking to add a terrorism enhancement, which could increase his sentence to over 10 years. The Republicans sat back and watched 1600 Americans have their constitutional rights ignored, and did NOTHING.
President Trump was elected. The J6ers who had not already killed themselves were pardoned; those who were dead didn't benefit at all. Their families grieve because the Republicans did NOTHING.
My family has waited for arrests, investigations, some resemblance of justice...but none have happened, because the Republicans, WHO CONTROL ALL 3 BRANCHES....HAVE DONE NOTHING.
So now, on election day... except voting for the ending of property taxes in Florida...I will do NOTHING.
Ted will send billions to Israel, but when it’s time to help middle class White Americans he’s like “ew that’s socialism.”
Ted: “Best I can do is you go die for Israel in the sand while Texas replaces you with Jeets.”
It's like everyone in the admin forgot why they were elected.
Of COURSE the MSM is fake news propaganda, the enemy of the people, and using CIA talking points.
Polling already established that in 2021-2024.
America expected at least the pretense of fixes.
LAWSUIT: Eight officers raided his home before dawn.
His offense? He filmed an officer speeding, criticized him when he got to a drive-thru, and embarrassed the department.
In a free country, criticizing police shouldn’t end in handcuffs.
In 2022, Joshua Gibbons filmed a Kingsport, Tennessee police SUV speeding without lights or sirens, violating state law.
He caught up with the officer at a drive-thru and had salty words about his disregard for the law.
That exchange lasted all of one minute. The consequences for Joshua lasted four years.
After someone complained about a different video — an officer flipping Gibbons off — police scoured Gibbons’ YouTube channel for ammunition.
Before dawn the next morning, while Gibbons was still in bed, eight armed officers raided his mother’s home to arrest him — for speeding using a cellphone while driving, and disorderly conduct.
A judge dismissed the speeding and cellphone charges but convicted him of disorderly conduct, saying he was “offended by the way” Gibbons was “talking to that officer.” Gibbons appealed. At a second trial, a jury again found him guilty.
In June, the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals unanimously reversed that conviction and dismissed the charge.
The court found “no evidence” that Gibbons’ criticism prevented anyone from doing anything lawful.
The court recognized — as many courts had held — that even “profane and insulting” words alone aren’t a crime, especially when directed at police officers, who are trained to exercise restraint.
With FIRE’s help, Gibbons is suing to vindicate his First Amendment rights.
The First Amendment protects your right to film and criticize police. Kingsport PD needs to hear that message loud and clear.
Trump had the opportunity to rule with an iron fist this term, and was given the mandate to do so in 2024 by winning both the electoral college (by a landslide) and the popular vote.
Instead, he blew all his political capital on the war with Iran and stuff that no one cared about, like the Kennedy Center. He hired women and retards like Kash Patel to run his cabinet. He refused to debank illegals and go after employers of illegals while simultaneously conducting deportations-as-a-performance-art, which did nothing but energize the left. Not a single person in the administration avenged the murder of Charlie Kirk, despite having the overwhelming support to do so. Now the economy sucks and people under 40 years old see no path to prosperity.
It’s been a long chain of disappointments.
Yes, still “better than Kamala”
But no, I don’t care if people turn on Trump at this point. Go right ahead.
Bastiat wrote of the Broken Window fallacy that uses twisted logic to mischaracterize wealth destruction as wealth creation. Breaking windows is good for the economy, the sophist said, because it generates more spending and jobs. Bastiat's correction explores the counterfactual, all the uses of resources had the rock not been thrown at all.
I fear that much of what is celebrated as the jobs machine of the medical-care industry is exactly the same. It is people getting ever sicker from iatrogenic injury, generating more service provision, more profits for the massive and growing insurance industry, and more drugs sales.
Broken windows, nearly all of it. This is not output expansion much less wealth creation. It's evidence of wealth destruction and declining population health.
@SpeakerJohnson@SenMikeLee Is this like that whole Epstein thing? Important as a campaign talking point but a “hoax” after the election?
I don’t believe you are fighting for anything but zionism. Demagoguery.
BTW, is it legal to use Israeli money to help one’s campaign?
@smcroasters Everything should be renamed some variant of our ruling zeitgeist: zionism
Gulf of Jewish Supremacy
Lake of the Chosen
Barabbas Strait
Mount of the Impenitent Squatter
Plains of the Oppressive Victim
“Just like a white man to say that.” When YOU voted for Donald Trump for the 3rd time, did you expect he’d put another race-obsessed, white-despising, kill-shot peddling, chick-scold in charge of anything, much less the “CIVIL RIGHTS” division of the DOJ?