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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Thank you! I think it’s sad how they are so desperate to paint their election opponent in a negative light to score political points that they are pretending she’s the president and is responsible for everything going on. Even in normal circumstances, the president can’t push a magic button and control the price of eggs or gasoline or whatever, but the hypocrisy of blaming Harris for it now is just doubling down on the lie. It was all “Biden did this, Biden did that” right up until he bowed out of the race and suddenly Harris is actually responsible for all that shit and it’s infuriating to see them trying it and even more infuriating to see it somehow actually working on people.






  • The Republican party needs to have plausible deniability. In the conservative playbook, it’s okay to repeat things that they know for a fact are untrue, or to tell a lie of omission to further their agenda, because they can always walk it back at the point in time which they are receiving blowback by saying they didn’t know it wasn’t true or that they didn’t have all the facts at hand. Assuming that the lie doesn’t manifest itself into truth or that there are enough people who care enough about the real truth to bother fact checking it at all to the point where it would necessarily generate any kind of controversy.

    This was Vance saying the quiet part out loud, probably by accident, and his pivot was not convincing at all.




  • Furbag@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldJD Vance
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    13 days ago

    It really is a scathing indictment of our country that, even if the allegations were true (they aren’t), the proposed solution to the problem Republicans have offered up is to deport all of the people back to their home country rather than just… I dunno. Making sure they have other means of feeding themselves.

    What the fuck has become of our society?


  • The culture war has been going on for a lot longer than a decade, it’s just only in the last decade or so that it’s been amped up to 11 in terms of how aggressive it’s being fought. Conservatives are almost always on the losing side of social issues that require a culture shift. Women’s suffrage, civil rights, seatbelt laws, anti-smoking laws, gay rights… the list goes on, and the fight is never quite done for some, but they always lose in the end.

    The very fact that conservatives are very pro for things like coal mining that liberals are trying to legislate away create strong reasons for some people to hold their noses and vote Republican regardless of how noxious the candidate is. When their livelihoods are literally at stake and the liberal response is “Well you should have gone to college to learn a new skill or trade” it makes sense that they are corralled right into the arms of conservatives. Economic drivers are the most powerful force behind the conservative movement right now, not culture bullshit that deep down they don’t really care about. It doesn’t help that very few people understand the relationship between “the economy” as outlined by experts and “the economy” as experienced when paying for groceries or filling up their car at the pump. It doesn’t matter that conservatives almost never deliver on their promises to fix the economy and often end up sending the nation into a recession, if bad decisions on a national scale lead to temporary relief on a local scale for some, that’s what they will remember when voting next time.

    Liberals need to be doing more to bring disenfranchised voters into the fold. Educating them without being condescending or dismissive would be an excellent start. Turning down the temperature in politics is not possible without also lowering the stakes, backing off of hardline positions in the short term might be the most effective way of undermining support for terrible conservative candidates.




  • Trump could be in a vegetative state, literally medically braindead, and Trump voters would still line up to cast their ballots for him.

    That’s what happens when you have a cult of personality, it takes on a life of it’s own and becomes more of an identity than an ideology. They don’t care what Trump stands for or even if Trump stands, all that matters is that they are Trump people and they only want to associate with their kind.

    For the rest of us, things like fitness and policy matter, which is why Biden was held to account and Trump will never be. There is no line that cannot be crossed.






  • I don’t think you understand how government works.

    Nobody is forcing this mythical Republican to accept the nomination. They’ll accept it voluntarily or she’ll move on to another qualified individual.

    You can’t maintain your previous job in Congress while simultaneously serving in the President’s cabinet, so if they resign they forfeit all of their power and go back to being a private citizen.

    That’s why is would be a career ending move for some to accept an appointment to the presidential cabinet only to resign in some vain effort to kowtow to Trump or spite the Democratic establishment. It’s silly.

    After election season dies down, so too does the rhetoric that both sides fling at each other. Democrats and Republicans, even MAGA Republicans, are capable of reaching across the aisle when required.

    Picking someone from the opposition is not just to keep up appearances of bipartisanship. It’s strategic. That person will have intimate knowledge of which Republicans are willing to play ball and which ones want concessions. It’s essentially like having an informant or spy on your side feeding you crucial intel about how the opposition is planning their next move, or what policies will resonate with their constituents.