Oh thats the russian military arm that handles a lot of the disinformation, trolling and trump support stuff.

Fwiw, I thought it was interesting.

So we all voted Kamala, and we all think the Dems are fucking up again and we can’t let the literal fucking fascists win.

What are we arguing about again? Is it simply “Dems, with notable or temporary exception are not doing enough and they need to”?

If we’re all on board with the duty to vote and barring some miracle third party candidate we’ll be voting Dem, I think we could get more substantive criticism out there.

I guess when I see “Dems suck” or “don’t blame the voters” I think its an argument against voting which we saw a lot of, or “Harris was terrible” which I (very surprisingly) disagree with.

Remember all that talk of trans rights on the campaign trail?

Millions of dollars from Republican groups and figures are being poured into anti-transgender ads criticizing policies that support the trans community, despite these issues being among the least important concerns motivating voters heading into the 2024 election, according to a recent Gallup poll.

LGBTQ advocates fear the intensified campaign will sow fear and hate against a group that makes up less than 1% of the U.S. adult population, per an analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data – and which already experiences high rates of discrimination and violence.

“After the election, trans Americans will have to deal with the dangerous fallout from the shameful lies and misinformation that far too many political candidates are intentionally spreading,” GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis said in a statement.

In the ads, former President Donald Trump’s campaign has said he will end transgender care in prisons and jails, and restrict access to gender-affirming care and transgender participation in sports, and more.

In interviews, Vice President Kamala Harris – who has been touted by some LGBTQ groups as being part of the most “pro-LGBTQ” administration – has said she will follow the law when it comes to transgender care and has expressed support for the Equality Act, a bill that would protect LGBTQ Americans from discrimination.

Here’s what we know about the issues and how each candidate expects to legislate transgender policies.

Harris has long been an outspoken advocate for same-sex marriage, officiating some of the nation’s first same-sex marriage ceremonies as district attorney in San Francisco. As vice president, she supported the Respect for Marriage Act, a landmark piece of bipartisan legislation to protect same-sex and interracial marriages.

She’s also expressed support for the Equality Act, a bill that would protect LGBTQ Americans from discrimination. The legislation would expand federal civil rights law to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination in areas such as public facilities, education, federal funding, employment, housing, credit, and the jury system.

Harris has said the “freedom to love who you love openly and with pride” is at stake this election.

Really, kind of obvious?

Oh wait - it doesn’t say trans. So, maybe she’s seekritly against any progress for trans rights? Hmm. I see your point. Trump definitely should have won.

Harris has been virtually silent on trans rights, and her policies would disproportionately benefit well-off trans people.

See, I think that the campaign should have openly said we support LGBTQ+ issues. Well, I mean they did, but their ‘virtual silence’ on trans rights, or . . specifically not-well-off? Trans rights? . . Was apparently damning enough to let the fascists openly trash everything.

Genius. Do it!

Man I’ve been voting Dem for 40 years. (edit - closer to 35 I guess)

So, what, Clinton ‘92 was first?

So you voted Cinton twice - won (?!)
Gore - lost
Kerry - lost
Obama twice - won (?!)
Hilary - lost (o shit)
Biden - won (yay)

Then you got to Harris and thought, “sure, we’re facing down the barrel of literal fascism, death of several amendments, public executions, and god knows what nightmare of a climate and - doggone it, now’s the time to not vote!”

? Wow. I’d be interested to know why, when it seemed like the stakes couldn’t be higher by any reasonable estimate, you thought now’s the time to stick it to the Dems.

EDIT: I see you did vote Harris, so - it appears I mistook “Dems have to do better” for “I’m not voting / I’m not voting Dem”.

Withdrawn.

Actually that is what I demand they do, but at that part where I finish my big speech with, “. . . right, everybody??” And turn around, you people are not there. And then they direct me to the centrists who did show up and I have to do it again.

Remember - they are supposed to earn your vote. You aren’t supposed to default to handing it to them.

If it was that simple politics would be way easier. But of course it isn’t like that. There’s a whole part of it where we work to build the party we want. Just walking up to the lever where it says “pull here or fascism wins” and then shrugging and walking off does not comprise an entire political system.

Doing this is very literally how we ended up here (unless that vote stealing scam thing turns out to be real).

the progressive voting block not voting against their interest is why the democrats lost the election.

Wasn’t the question to explain that part?

I’ll start. The Dem platform did not promise to end capitalism immediately. They specifically planned to continue it.

“don’t vote blue no matter who, even against your interest, to teach the progressives Democrats a lesson.”

That was what they said! Like - literally. Verbatim.

I want to consider those opposed to Republicans as on the same side.

Me too, but they just wanted to shit on our candidates and let trump win. They were pretty clear about that. All this trump insanity is the Democrats’ fault. Heck, they still say it now.

That plus the fact that there doesn’t seem to be any other plan at all besides shitting on Democrats makes me think they’re just high-quality GRU inductees. Or functionally indistinct, anyway.

Environmental terrorism against swarms of mosquitos . . . has been approved.

(Okay not really but heck if some skeetercatchers wanna shack up over here, I’m buyin’.)

Good thing trust and consistency are useless woke concepts.

When Dunlap was asked by a rancher to investigate leaking wells owned by Chevron Corp., he expected state regulators to help. Instead the commission that oversees oil and gas operations in Texas directed the ranch’s concerns to its lawyers. Relations with Chevron deteriorated into an acrimonious lawsuit. And after the rancher captured drone footage of wastewater spewing high into the sky, the regulatory commission made the area a no-fly zone, citing safety concerns.

Hawk Dunlap Photographer: Mark Felix/Bloomberg

“They don’t want to know about it, and they don’t want anyone else to know about it,” he said on a sweltering afternoon in West Texas, pausing to spit chewing tobacco into an empty Topo Chico bottle. “But I don’t back up too easy.”

Yeah, we heard.

I demand Louisiania republiQans shut the fuck up

Well yeah, the republiQans like to “play” wartime. Presuming they don’t have to actually do anything hard or dangerous. That’s why they’re all about it.

He’s a felon, and a demented rapist. Start there.

Feel free to mention him losing in 2020 and staging a coup.

Our corporate news sewers sure won’t.

That’s the one!

Maybe they have to venture out into the world to recover the crystal of time, or, like, mint condition 1972 Kenner Spock in box, or something. Or just go out for sandwiches. I mean . . . I’d watch it.

Buddy cop movie: Capybara and Quokka