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

@BlitztheDragon
I thought all their money went to Trump’s legal fees.

That’s my point, in a moment when they blew a ton of money on Trump’s legal fees and Harris is erasing the fundraising advantage they had earlier in the spring and summer, they can’t really afford to play defense in Texas and Florida.

See, the problem with calling Republicans what they truly are is that they’re the ones with the messaging apparatus sinking billions into right-wing propaganda campaigns. You’d think that on paper giving a fascist the time of the day would disarm them into submission, but one of the very first thing they learn as a result of becoming a fascist is that words don’t matter anymore. Fascism by definition twists the rules and norms in any way or shape possible to always end up on top of an argument no matter what.

Right on cue, the perfect example. “My Dear Leader isn’t a fascist, my opponent is! Look at all those buzzwords that totally make sense! LOOOOOOOL!”. This is the level of discussion you’re dealing with, and when it comes to putting your words against a fascist’s, theirs are the ones being amplified by the vast majority of media outlets and social media websites.

This also applies to elected representatives, nobody wants to have their words taken out of context by complicit outlets and used to sabotage their campaign. The most ignorant dumbfucks on the Republican side, though? They get to go on committees and spew their garbage through official channels with minimal fact checking due to the sheer metric volume of bullshit they’re pushing out.

So yeah, to put it simply, as much as we’d like to see Democrats go on the offensive, they’re playing with a handicap against a stacked deck.

JD Vance is needs to shut up.

He says that people that are single need to pay more in taxes than that of people that are married and have kids.

Don’t forget about his childless cat ladies comments.

If there’s one thing you can thank Stephen Crowder for, it’s that his feud with Ben Shabibo’s Daily Liar proved the accusations that the entire Conservative media sphere is astroturfed AF.

Like, dear God. If you asked to work 3 hours a day, 4 days a week to get paid 5 million across 40 years then you can tell me to say anything in favor of the big business and I’ll never stop saying it.

But these reich-wing sluts are paid so well that 50 million across 4 years is considered an insult. They think it’s slave labor to be paid that low!

A reminder that Project 2025 wants to get rid of child tax credit.

So people with children will be paying more as well.

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@Background Pony #1D40
Grok AI is about to get worse it seems, nice.

If you’re a registered Democrat in Texas, go check your voter registration ASAP. Dems on social media are claiming their registration is being suspended without warning or notice for having “outdated information” when that is not the case.

Horrifying reports from surgeons returned from Gaza, including claims of the sniping of very young children.

@Latecomer
I watched some of the videos out there, they were actually making fun of a dying boy.

All on the heels of Bibi getting a standing ovation from Congress as he proclaims that October 7 is Israel’s Pearl Harbor.

@BlitztheDragon
I just checked.

My voter ID is active, at least for now.

I totally expect Abbott and the Texas GOP to do some shady shit down the road…

@Dustcan
As terrifying as this already is, now imagine if another Republican administration came on that was like Trump but without the short attention span. With a series of long term plans and agendas and the determination to see them done. With brains…

I mean he’s not wrong about that one thing. Oct 7 was the worst atrocity to happen to Jews since the Holocaust.

Nah the real ghoulish thing was him vomiting the usual Israeli propaganda and simultaneously slandering protesters while trying to goad the US into a conflict with Iran.

Dude’s reeeeeeeally damn confident for a guy who has almost completely diplomatically isolated his little settler colony. Probably thinks US goodwill will be infinite, OR that Trump will be in office to support him come November.

@AaronMk
VANCE’S GOT A WEIRD CASE WHY IS HE AROUND

@Latecomer
Isolated incident no.7282879278

From that same event, he simultaneously claimed he had “defeated” Joe Biden and that Biden was “forced out” by a Democratic “coup.”

No mention of whether Trump mentioned Kamala Harris during all of this.

@Commune
To be Trump’s Wing man when he eliminates the right to vote in the US.

That ear does not look damaged. Unlike the brain it’s attached to.

When were these photos taken?

If they really were taken after the shooting event at his rally, then this would suggest to me that it may very well have been at least partially staged. By “partially” I mean that the part with a guy with a gun trying to shoot Drumpf was real but the bleeding ear itself may have been rigged with the expectation that should there be an attempt at an assassination, Drumpf would immediately squeeze a ketchup packet and smear it on his ear to make it look like he got shot for the sole purpose of garnering sympathy.

@MethidMan
I mean, the bullet barely grazed him, I don’t think there was anything indicating it was more than a “papercut”. I don’t think Trump would have the presence of mind within the few seconds it all happened to try to fake anything, though he may have inadvertently made the bleeding worse just by touching his ear.

@MethidMan
They’re both linked

The Harris campaign organized an open Zoom call to discuss women’s issues. They expected around 2 to 3000.

They got 160,000 and had to open multiple lobbies.