The cons are famous for accusing everyone else of having an ideological agenda, even as they are pushing an extremist one that is extremely unpopular.

Classic DARVO tactics. This is the group that thinks there is some ideological agenda and nefarious things are afoot to merely recognize that people (including gay and trans) have a right to exist. Of course, they don’t acknowledge their own efforts to crush the rights of those people as “ideological”.

Honestly, Democratic messaging needs to lean very hard into how hard the conservatives want to make everything for everyone. Not just making a living, getting healthcare, having access to clean air, clean water, and food without foodborne illnesses. They also want to make it more difficult to even vote. This is in a country that already has a long tradition of making it harder than it needs to be (in many states).

If we don’t have online voting, the very least we should have is ballots mailed to us that we can mail back and have trust they will be counted.

That should be the bare fucking minimum in a supposed “free” country.

Wish I could downvote this about 1000x.

This is not the time for “democrats in disarray” nonsense, FFS.

Unfortunately, this also gives an assist to the conservative plot to get rid of the post office. The fact that tiny-d donnie’s plot to also steal an election in the process is a two-fer - reduce trust in an institution like the USPS while installing conservatives into offices that they don’t deserve.

But in the short term, I understand why they’d reach for this.

I would hope that every state, including mine, would find a way to allow voters to print their ballot out, fill it out at their own damn leisure, and drop it off at a drop box, also at their leisure.

This will give the cons less of a chokepoint in the future too. The net was supposedly designed to treat censorship as damage and route around it.

To conservatives, doing anything empathetic is a bridge too far.

And they wonder why people want to disconnect from them.

That’s the one where it spelled RUMP, right?

It’s just another way to “own the libs” from the same people that would let tiny-d donnie take a shit in their mouth if they thought a liberal would have to smell it.

They’ll punch themselves right in their own dicks if they think it would annoy a liberal somewhere.

No.

But no Republicans will be harmed.

I cannot tell you how many omnivores have set about lecturing ME on water usage related to almonds when they found out I was vegetarian. At least one time was while they were literally eating a cheeseburger.

For one thing, my household doesn’t use all that much almond milk, but I guess many omnivores assume that vegetarians or vegans eat nothing but salad and tofu and guzzle almond milk.

Anyway, being a vegetarian has placed me in the center of some rather very bizarre conversations from people that are completely ignorant about not only nutrition (I mean how many fucking times can one hear the “but where do you get your protein?” question), but about their own diet’s implications…specifically to things like fuel and water usage and the pollutants it creates…

Maybe I’ll get worried about almond milk’s water consumption if meat and dairy becomes a scarce thing. Until then, I’m not really taking the bait on what I consider is a lot of concern-trolling, especially while meat and dairy production doesn’t show any signs of slowing down.

Thanks. For a fleeting second, when I first saw the headline, I thought it was that other Naomi, Naomi Wolf, haha.

I think I remember hearing the Pod Save America guys saying that the more tiny-d donnie is in the headlines, the worse he tends to poll. I assume that drags down others in his shit party, too.

The minute he’s out of the headlines, the more brainless Americans tend to forget how fucking awful he is.

If he’s in the forefront of everyone’s minds all the time, I hope it blows huge holes in Republican support this election. :)

These people are the worst types of people.

Honestly, if the “liberal media” didn’t make such a hullabaloo about a big nothing, essentially giving the extremely radical right wing an assist, it would have blown over as just merely being an accurate observation.

Instead, there is all the usual Murc’s Law bullshit at play here: Democrats have to be pure as the driven snow and cannot even state the truth lest it hurt the tender feelings of right wing snowflakes; Republicans, who are expected to be awful, and just cannot help it, get a pass on things like bragging about sexually assaulting women and having it written off as “locker room talk”.

Republicans are allowed to just about say and do anything and get praised as just being straight shooters that speak like everyday people. Heaven forbid a Democrat were to do the same thing…

Oh, that’s right, I forgot all about them being Catholic.

I used to know a radical evangelical that would say all kinds of stuff I would just be dumbstruck by - one was that even though he was raised Catholic and most of his family was still Catholic, he not only thought Catholics were not “real” xtians, but that they were “pagans” (his word for pretty much every person not a Southern Baptist, including atheists and other xtians).

Now, I happened to remember all the invective Jack Chick aimed at Catholics with his comics, but I never thought I’d hear an adult repeat this kind of thing.

Also, I had recently read Robert Anton Wilson’s rather tongue-in-cheek comparison of Catholics to paganism, due to all the saints and so on…

I did ask this particular individual if he thought he’d even know what xtianity was if it wasn’t for Catholicism…I don’t remember his answer. IIRC, it was utterly incoherent…

I think Loomer has brain damage or something, but Jigsaw should probably know that if they were to actually go that hard, that Jews would be targeted by that point.

They almost always do. Doesn’t matter if she considers herself one of the “good ones”.

Don’t know about this law, but didn’t he work for her?

Hm, FT seems to be one of the few sites where the usual tricks (archive, unwall, reader mode) don’t work.

Sinema is almost a textbook example of why I don’t really value representation as necessarily a measure of things that will move things forward.

She supposedly ticks so many boxes that should have given her all these progressive bona fides (at least among people that tend to fall for identity politics stuff):

She’s a woman, relatively young, who claims to be bi, is an out atheist, AND she’s vegan?! How exciting. I’m especially keen on the last two things.

Well, spoiler alert, it turns out she was a total shit show for progress. Given the choice, I’d take an eighty-some year old white straight male who eats lots of meat and dairy and goes to church all the time, BUT votes for progressive policies…people on our side really, really need to work on looking beyond the surface-level bullshit.

Oh, and ahem - she started out in the Green Party. If people wonder why I give them so much side-eye. Here’s what she’s been up to lately, according to Wikipedia:

Career after elected office

In January 2025, Sinema joined Coinbase’s Global Advisory Council to advocate for the cryptocurrency industry and help it coordinate with US lawmakers.[39][40]

In March 2025, Sinema joined the law and lobbying firm Hogan Lovells as a senior advisor.[41][42]

In October 2025, Sinema failed in an attempt to lobby the city council of the Phoenix suburb Chandler, Arizona to allow the development of an AI data center.[43] Earlier in the year she founded and became the co-chair of the AI Infrastructure Coalition.[44]

Sinema has since become a strong advocate for the Make America Healthy Again Movement and ibogaine.[45]

She’s also a poster child for the horseshoe theory, JFC.

Yep. Imagine how many corks will be popping if/when that happens. :)

Even better will be watching the people who at that point will probably be pretending they didn’t vote for donnie and never really liked the guy trying not to say anything. :)

Yeah, no shit. We know that’s why you are singularly obsessed with doing that right now vs. doing the actual job for the American people.

Also: we cannot wait to tear down anything associated with you.