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the fence sitting is probably the most frustrating.

"so a woman died because a life-saving procedure was rendered illegal in her republican state."
"oh, well they can't be doing that that. that's just silly." *mashes R*

mac, the maga people i work with, my 'Friends on the Other Side,'₁ will complain about voting.

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they work, er, in terms of their job, but a lot of breathing space is filled with complaining. some really heinous rants too. if they want to endlessly moan about the low-energy state of the washington gop and not put any legwork into bringing maga into local politics, why stop them? how would i even break it to them that a democrat teacher from the east coast wants them to get up and hammer signs into grass strips along sidewalks? they'd hurt themselves in their confusion.

and yes, maga in my circles, as a drum? beaten into kindling here, i'm well aware.

Poor and progressive voters want someone else to solve all of their problems

conservative voters aren't much different. the political identity of old conservatives is basically built on the house of cards of what they think reagan did for them. not as easy as plucking a few supporting cards either. shit is time-locked like a doctor who episode.

give them stuff from rich people, and not put in any effort. It is thievery. I will not judge them for wanting to expropriate rich people's property. I want to also. But at least I am willing to put in the leg work and organizing.

rich people want the money without the work too. don't be duped into thinking this is a poor people thing. the american dream for many people is making it to the point where you live off of money that "makes itself," never have to lift a finger, and shamelessly leech from uncle sam's floppy grey teat. there are people already living this ideal. how many bailouts could have gone to prop struggling businesses and not just megacorps who are making a bit less than last quarter but aren't actually being pressured from without to shutter? or how about even just bailing out every last homeless person and debt-riddled family and still spending less than the country did on corporate bailouts and tax breaks for people who quite frankly do not need it.

the mood on both passive sides (BoTh SiDeS) is that everything sucks, the Other Side is out to end you, but someone else will fix it for you. for the republicans, what was it that his fat majesty said? 'vote for me and you won't have to vote again, it'll be great.' "it's just impactless rhetoric! he doesn't actually mean that!" "he can't do that though, the courts will stop him."

but the liberals have a point thinking republicans are out to kill americans. violent rhetoric, hate speech, gagging criticism against things charlie kirk actually said, policy that actively kills and will kill more americans. what do the republicans have? "this one time in 1993 a liberal actor said something kind of stupid that nobody has acted on." "christmas is beset on all sides by people wanting to end christmas! by the way i bought a few new ornaments in the department store, circa late july." not exactly dying of a problematic pregnancy, is it.

a bit back, i considered i could possibly get away from it by entering teaching like you suggested, but then you got your maga assistant.

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mac wrote:

keep fighting the fight and get involved directly

what does it say that i didn't even have to see the american flag in that.

i wish my teachers had thought to pop tennis balls on desk feet. very irritating hearing them skid and microscoot around a hard floor for hours a day, depending on if any given classroom merited carpet or not. BRRRRRDRDDRRRRRDRRII

trumponents told me in 2024 that donald was a master of compromise or something because he was 'good at business.' what a laugh. he's aiming to beat his previous shutdown record. stamp his name a second time at the top of the leaderboard.

the smokescreen for the epstein files continues. mid-october now and government websites still retooled as propaganda posters against "radical left democrats."

two weeks of shutdown just to stick to the skeletal numbers of trans people in america. lmao. i guess they'll count it as a win anyway in that a lot of programs in place may be difficult to restart, or be irrecoverable.

I have to give the MAGA people who are unimpressed with the Israeli hostage deal some credit.

The president declared war on American cities while giving the Jewish president of Argentina money and then making a show of helping free some Jews in Gaza. Stabbed in the back? More like like stabbed in the front.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Dilbert_X wrote:

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These people are so dumb though.

taking interview questions from the seat of farm equipment is so contrived. what's wrong with the front door? "hang on, let's take this into the field for some ambiance." could literally just go out into the front yard and use crops as a backdrop.

at least it's actually a work platform, and not some sunglasses-and-pickup masculinity crisis on display while ranting about the queers on instagram.

did anyone see the interview where vance was like "I'M THE VICE PRESIDENT!"




why is the government shut down, vance? what could we not agree on?

the fox take:


"destroys." if you say so.

release the epstein files.

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First they came for the hipsters

i mean that's fine, but imo sending his family overseas was possibly wise. as for himself, he can still fight online, away from the people making threats to brutally murder him in front of his class. it can be difficult to sift credible threats from trolls, and i'm sure some crazies out there want revenge for kirk.

for optics, i think fleeing america made a bigger splash in the news than sticking around with a trumpian fatwah on him, waiting to get quietly disappeared to a blacksite. remember when people were made fun of for weaving wild stories about how the black helicopters were out to get them? who's laughing now after midway blitz?

i tend to not blame the people who fled nazi germany to escape persecution, either. likely saved their life.

i don't doubt that trump the realtor from queens can get a wedding venue erected, pronto.

it is, however, deeply funny that it is this president doing a major rehaul of the presidential residence. the gold leaf and lamé president. the faberge egg tycoon. everything is going to be designed, built, and appointed in trump's fashion. in decades from now when the divisive politics of the trump era are as cold and dead as reaganism, future presidents will be hosting democratic peers and potentates in the worst of all possible taste.

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uziq wrote:

future presidents will be hosting democratic peers

assuming usa remains a democracy, that is, and that future elections aren't a complete joke of trump goons pushing the next maga presidents in with 96% of the vote.

it's frustrating and dangerous. in a way, the gloating republicans are getting a lot what they want, i think. long term government closure affects the programs they wanted to wither and die anyway. they play innocent and blame the democrats across government websites, conservative influencers and news media. "the democrat shutdown! people are going hungry!" meanwhile, to paraphrase, trump on social media called it "an unprecedented opportunity from which a lot of good can come." yeah…

the democrats can't fold without looking like collaborators, imo.

republicans are citing democratic precedent of "rule through executive order." what of volume? "well, i don't rightly know, but biden did a lot." let's give that a quick look, shall we? while 5 spins of the mouse wheel are enough to scroll through biden's 2025, it takes me 45 spins to get through donald trump's 2025 to date. 210 executive orders for 2025₁ so far. more than biden's entire single term in office, and approaching by the tens obama's entire two terms (and almost past trump's own entire first term). trump's 2020 and 2021 numerically surpass biden's 2024 and 2025 (and obama's 2016 and 2017), as well. do we also want to talk about all the republican blocking of obama's picks?

biden's not a great deflection, guys.

will the republican people i work with crack open trump's 2025 and behold the whiny tone? probably not. most didn't even bother to review project 2025. literal sleepwalking.

wonder how many homeless people trump's ballroom could have fed.

₁https://www.federalregister.gov/presidential-documents/executive-orders

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