Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

I think my favorite defense Elon tried was saying that the monkeys were already sick and going to die soon anyways. That’s exactly the response you’d expect from someone who’s cars are programmed to deactivate autopilot literal milliseconds before a crash, just so they’d have a report in court saying the driver was in control at the time of crash.

No joke.

[insert puke emoji]

So after like a year of starving Arkatsh from food and supplies, Azeribaijan launches an offensive on it causing the deaths of hundreds before the Arkatsh authorities surrendered

Literally not even a day after the surrender reports of Azeri units firing on Armenian positions have already started

Mind you, Azerbaijan is still occupying parts of Armenia proper after clashes from a year ago, not just the disputed Arkatsh regions

Unfortunately for the Armenians, they literally have no reliable Allies

Russia basically abandoned them after the velvet revolution

US and the West are too reliant on Azeri oil and security forces to combat Islamist terrorism to challenge them

And Iran has a giant Azeri minority that they do not want to piss off

Armenia is fucked

What’s worse is seeing people defend the invasion as Azerbaijan defending itself from “Russian aggression” via an ally of Russia, completely ignoring that Azerbaijan is also an ally of Russia.

@Dustcan
I pray that is taken into court and Elon is spanked infront of the world for how transparently slimy that is.

A few days ago Bobo was caught vaping around pregnant women and giving her pick up date a handy-j during a live public performance of…Beetlejuice The Musical.

After defending her actions and her boyfriend for the last few days, she’s now announced she’s broken up with her latest conveyer belt beau because she made the shocking revelation that he’s a democrat.

I don’t know where to even go with this one, but thankfully Farron Cousins of Ring of Fire as always already has better takes than I could come up with anyway.

@CaptainXtra

Have these morons ever heard of parental controls? It’s not that hard to set up parental controls so their children can’t access adult content. It’s called adult content for a reason.

Furthermore, how can they possibly think banning pornography will be popular or even effective? Prohibition wasn’t effective, and this ain’t gonna be much different from that. Not only that, but you know how overturning Roe v. Wade has hurt the GOP in every election since? Banning pornography, on the other hand, would be a political death sentence for the GOP, because pornography is the one thing everyone likes, so that would be messing with everyone’s constitutional rights.

Everyone who’s situated anywhere on the political spectrum has consumed pornography at some point in their lives, regardless of whether they’re willing to publicly admit it.

@SkarletKardinal
Keep in mind, Common Sense and Parenting died a long time ago.

It makes sense when you remember that simply being openly LGBTQ is considered “pornographic” to these people. The main goal is to drive queer content off the internet by threatening websites with lawsuits for kids being able to see it.

@NitroFury
Sounds like it, unfortunately.

@BlitztheDragon
No surprise there. They frame the laws like that so that if you dare criticize them, you’ll risk appearing to support exposing children to pornography, which 1) nobody would support anyway for obvious reasons, and 2) will be fatal to a political candidate’s chances of winning an election.

So, in short, it’s another round of “think of the children” moral panic virtue signaling.

Assault rifle bans are just common sense. I mean, we don’t let the average person buy grenades. Why should the average person be able to buy assault rifles?

Hey, Evangelicals, remember when all the sane folks were telling you that Trump was a charlatan hukster who will say anything if he thinks it’ll get him elected?

Per Politico.

“In just the last week, Donald Trump called Florida’s six-week abortion ban “terrible,” refused to endorse national restrictions, blamed abortion opponents for Republicans’ 2022 election disappointments and pledged to compromise with Democrats on the issue if elected.”

@Dustcan
“Us vs them” in a nutshell.

Rupert Murdoch is stepping down as Fox Corp and News Corp chairman. Lachlan will now have full control of both.

Wow.

@Dustcan
Poor Lauren Bobert. She found out that she was dating a Democrat.

It’s the other thing in the Beetlejuice musical that people cared about is, her trashy attitude.

Imma go stats nerd for a second.

So, awhile back, I made mention that dems were doing well in special elections and that while individual elections are not very predictive, trend lines are.

It’s been a few months and a bunch of special elections have came and went. There’s been around 30 special elections this year, in all different states and localities. Dems have won in a good majority of them, which is good news. Better news is that they over-performed in all of them. Excluding the Wisconsin SC race as it was not a special election though a unique one, dems have over-performed by an average of 10-11 points.

This continues a trend from last year, where dems were also over-performing in special elections in the months leading up to Republicans having the worst mid-term election for a party out of power on modern history.

In fact, the trend has accelerated. Dems are overperforming more this year than the year leading up to the mid-term.

This trend has been wildly predictive over the years. With only one year, 97-98 breaking the trend. Coinciding with some spicy political events.

It is not a 100% guarantee nor does it mean that dems will over-perform in 2024 by 11 points. If they did, btw, just for funnizes, they would win super majorities in both chambers and win the presidential election.

Highly unlikely mind you. However, the trend has been pretty spot on in showing that the party that keeps that streak going almost always goes on to over-perform.

Republicans are trying to protect a razor thin, unpopular majority in the house while trying to make gains in the Senate. Even a slight dem over-performance could see that slip away.

And if dems somehow massively over-perform, which while unlikely is not outside the realm of possibilities, you could see Biden carried into a term on dem super majorities.

Also of note, dems have been massively over-performing in the handful of VA special elections, and the republican controlled VA House is the most unpopular of the state branches, the Dem Senate and Republican governor both maintain positive ratings.

We have an election this year. And while dems were expected to retain the senate due to map advantages the House was up in the air. If dems over-perform here in VA, it would be another indicator that the climate in the US is very much not on Republicans side.

Which is kind of a shame, since Seth MacFarlane once described Murdock (during a Family Guy DVD commentary) as a man who is a businessman first and a Republican second. Which is why Murdock allowed liberal shows like The Simpsons and Family Guy on a TV network owned by a fucking conservatinve.

Those were the exception rather than the rule. Most of Fox’s programs are just reality shows that appeal to the kind of demo that watches Fox News. Only their NFL coverage is worth anything.

@ᎶㄖҜㄩ 乃ㄥ卂匚Ҝ
Eh, he was also completely willing to run Fox news at a loss as long as it did it’s job as a propaganda station,

And it’s not even a loss anymore. Pretty much all of Fox’s profits come from Fox News. The Fox network and Fox Sports don’t contribute jack anymore.

@ᎶㄖҜㄩ 乃ㄥ卂匚Ҝ
Honestly, I’m surprised Disney hasn’t moved either of those shows to ABC yet.

Times have changed. He willingly let his FN hosts openly peddle election lies to outright encourage seditious thinking. He didn’t can Tucker Carlson because he cost the company almost a billion in fines from pushing The Big Lie, but because he personally got offended when Tucker flattered his wife with some religious proselytizing.

Guy’s a monster.

@Penguin Dragneel
The company that owns Fox News and isn’t tied to the Fox properties Disney owns anymore

I think

@Kiryu-Chan
Not since March 2019.

@Penguin Dragneel
It’s all about the money. Fox is paying Disney such a huge premium for those shows that it makes more financial sense to keep them there than moving them to ABC.

That, and with no NFL lead-in to the shows, trying to replicate the ratings will be very difficult for ABC.