I’m not saying people wanted anyone assassinated but living in the grip of a raging narcissist cult leader for a decade has been a serious bummer for those of us not under his thrall and wishing for a constant atmosphere of menace and gaslighting to cease is a fairly natural human response.
Really struggling to understand why both the mainstream media and Democratic leadership are finding it so hard right now to express what I think is a fairly basic point. Political violence is bad and a second Trump presidency means more of it.
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If you’re interested in whether or not the political reporting team at Rolling Stone is allowing itself to be ruled by emotional blackmail from some of the most politically cretinous people on earth, the answer is no.
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Liberals can both condemn violence and point out that Trump is the source of the violence! Biden was, for the first time. going after Trump really hard over the last couple of days, and now he’s just going to drop his weapons because GOP operatives want him to. Democrats are master-class losers.
Trying to imagine what it would be like to have a Democratic Party that didn't go into a defensive crouch when literally anything happens. Same people were like "oh no big risks for Biden that Trump is a convicted felon it might make people feel sorry for him"
I think it increases the likelihood of 2 things
1) an energized trump base more likely to vote
2) a blood and soil and vengeance and kill list wall of rhetoric from the magaverse that makes a lot of other people go “we can’t let these people get power”
Frankly this is out of control. If you can’t see that it’s insanity to force your own successful president out of office months before the election, for the great sin of polling two points behind, you need to give yourself a few nice hard smacks across the face until you come to your senses.
Imagine what would happen if Democrats stopped stabbing their nominee in the back, though. This bullshit handwringing must stop.
If you want 1968 again, you'll have it. Is that what you want?
The predictable results of Obama opting for a look-forward national reconciliation is that our enemies used that grace to regroup and become ever more aggressive in their plans to murder us.
"It seemingly never occurred to Obama that responsibly addressing the crisis would have required doing politics instead of acting magnanimous towards a conservative Wall Street banker." theweek.com/articles/950...
The NYT is getting ready to push a dozen "chill about Project 2025 because it's normie conservative policy" articles as I write this. They're fully part of the project now.
And we can't even try because it's vitally important that Dem senator vibes remain pure or something.
Performative messaging is really important and twenty years of progressives yelling at elected Democrats about it has done fuck-all. AOC is the only elected with a mic who gets it.
The hostile to black people (without whose votes the Dem candidate cannot win!) thing is real: the fallback would be Harris, and the people pushing Biden to drop out have said variously that they’re planning to ignore Harris (“blitz primary”) or attack her viciously on Biden’s age (NYT reporters)
I remember when KTEH first start showing anime on themed Sci-Fi Sundays in the mid 90's and he was so disdainful during the pledge breaks about having Robotech in the mix -- something like "we've got to get something better than *Robotech*"
Yup. They could reboot it, but it would be a hugely heavy lift, and why bother? Only Gen X (and maybe "elder millennials"?) really has fond memories of it, and Gen X is obviously the smallest possible audience segment
