There won’t be any more elections

We’ve got two gubernatorial races and a whole mess of municipal races coming in November. So that remains to be seen.

But when see front-runners for primaries coddling up to fascism all up and down the Dem slate, it does not fill me with optimism for the future.

Hey, you know how we’re already fucking hemorrhaging our own base?

I’ve been on Lemmy long enough to know that you plug the leaks in your party by screaming at everyone who won’t align with Henry Cueller, Bob Menendez, and Eric Adams. Call them Tankies. Tell them that they’re brainwashed by Russia. Remind them that by not voting for Democrats, they are killing Palestinian children. Then blow up their phone with “I’m not like other Democrats! Support me and we can change the system together, for just $25/mo!” ad spam.

Why be more inclusive when you can just start excluding your entire base?

Transgender people are hurting the party. Homeless people are hurting the party. The Radical Leftist Antifas are hurting the party. You’ll never get your Health Care Reform or your Student Debt Relief if you keep wasting your time on the tired, the poor, and the huddled masses who won’t stop yearning to breath free.

Politics is for the professional managerial class. Now get in line to walk 40 miles in the blazing sun, knocking on the doors of people two weeks away from eviction and asking them to Vote Blue No Matter Who!

If you don’t, my close personal friends in the Republican Party are going to shoot this puppy. And it’ll be all your fault!

A staff of seven with a budget of $10M. Just imagine what people who weren’t geeked to the gills on The West Wing episodes could do with that kind of money.

Exposing anyone to Tucker Carlson should be illegal. But at such a tender age…

What genuine problem is being solved?

In theory, your phone becomes a perfect multi-tool for every task. Unlock your door, start your car, swipe a credit card, shop for groceries, talk to your mom, book a vacation, apply for a job, show tickets for a concert, yadda yadda yadda.

In practice, it’s a bunch of patch-jobs cobbled together on a grid that’s over-extended and under-maintained. So, rather than a single universal digital gatekey, you get a digital janitor’s keyring with 100 different apps competing for battery life and bandwidth on a platform that goes obsolete every 18 months.

👏 You 👏 Don’t 👏 Need 👏 A 👏 TV 👏 On 👏 Your 👏 Fridge 👏

Talking about Constitutional Law in the modern day feels more and more like you’re becoming a Sovereign Citizen. Waving around a piece of paper and screaming “You don’t have the right to do that!” at a room full of men with tasers and guns and handcuffs.

Haha! Oh boy! I wonder what they’ll talk about?

Man Show S1E01 “Stop Womens’ Suffrage” Skit, maybe?

there’s no point in holding them responsible

Wouldn’t “holding them responsible” mean prosecuting them? Who has the power to do that?

They don’t call’m “Reactionary” for nothin

My face when you were literally in diapers while I was smashing fash.

That’s half the joke. Disney has the market cornered and fully saturated. What we’re seeing is a slowdown in the consumer economy, not a boycott.

But pretending a recessionary wave is some kind of political movement makes the austerity feel righteous.

“13th Disciple” is code for “2nd Judas”

Charlie would be wrestling that guy for the bag of silver coins.

Imagine being Steven Crowder right now.

🤣 Twenty years of this shit. Twenty years of people saying “You can’t do anything in the Senate without 60 votes” back and forth at one another endlessly. Twenty. Fucking. Years. 😂

I never want to hear shit about how Clinton / Obama / Biden “tried hard” again. I never want to hear shit about “We can’t pack the courts, its unprecedented” or “This obviously qualified person is too radical to survive confirmation”. You liberals deserve what you fucking get. Damn shame the rest of us are getting dragged along behind your worthless asses.

Edit: I guess it’d probably be to “just ignore it it’s fine”

☺️ That’s the spirit.

The idea that a new product aligned to my interests and designed with me in mind would be advertised to me instead of feminine hygiene products or mesothelioma lawsuit ads seemed awesome.

Broadly speaking, the problem with modern American advertisement isn’t the content so much as the volume. Tried to watch a football game a few weeks back and I barely saw any football being played. Every millisecond of screen time and every pixel of screen space that wasn’t a moving football was consumed by ads.

I was at an actual game a year ago, foolishly thinking being there was going to be a better experience. NOPE. Ads on the announcements. Ads at the endzones. Ads painted into the turf. I got solicited to buy shit as I was loading up my ticket and right inside the gate once I was scanned in. The whole interior of the stadium was a mall full of overpriced crap. Seats were branded. The food was branded. I was buying something and I was drowning in people trying to sell me more shit.

I don’t care if every single item on offer is something I might actually want. I can’t fucking breath for it all.

Sounds like there’s a host of details you’re leaving out.

But then that’s a classic Tucker trope.

Tucker’s a smart guy with a clever tongue. He can lay out an exhaustive, reasoned, rationalist case for basic civil liberties. And then he can come back a day later to lay out an exhaustive, reasoned, rationalist case against them.

Just depends on which side of the line he’s standing. Dude’s a talk radio mercenary. He’ll fight for whichever side he thinks will turn him a profit.

Not since Trump flipped on Russia (again). Maybe he’ll feel safer after another Alaska Summit.