We’re halfway there; many of the rich want desperately to strap themselves on top of a million tons of explosives in the shape of a penis. All we have to do now is convince them that there are poor people with money on the sun, and they’ll trip over each other to be the first to steal from the poor sun-people.

I agree. I can’t stand that every restaurant or bar has to have a TV or 20 that are all tuned to talking heads blowing hot air over what sports guy #876,914 did last night, or what sports guy #1,456,888 will do tomorrow night.

Even when it’s live sports, the broadcast is still more commercials than game, every square inch of the playing area is plastered with ads, plus the ads that are on the overlay, plus this instant replay is brought to you by A1 Hemorrhoid cream, from the Mega-Car Savings Plus Center, at beautiful Jack the Ambulance Chaser Stadium: “When you drive drunk, call Jack to blame on the innocent™!”

You like the wrong things! You should like other things!

What about paper?

Neither does the popular vote!

I dunno, the image of a cane being wielded in such a way as to scare a member of the “Guns Over People” party, has immense potential.

Dems should be motived by things like access to abortion and staving off an attempt to institute a christofascist autocracy.

That’s a nothing sandwich with a side order of nothing. As far as motivating voters. It doesn’t apply to any one person. Any Democratic candidate could be saying these things, whether Biden, Harris, any of the other Democratic candidates from 2020, or a Speak-n-spell with a blue sticker on it. The GOP has, for decades, ran on people before policies. When they didn’t, they lost.

And whether we like it or not we don’t live in a logical system where policies are all that matter. If we did we could have a direct democracy and have every citizen vote directly on each policy. Instead we have a Republic, so the person making the empty campaign promises matters. Their personality matters. Their energy and likeability matters. It’s why Obama won, and Clinton before him. But now, the Democrats either can’t see that or don’t want to, or they’re led by bad actors who want to lose.

The best thing for US Democracy, the people of the US, and no hyperbole the entire world, would be if Biden got hospitalized through natural illness. He’d be forced to step aside, the “Back Biden no matter what” crowd would have to back a new candidate, the “Please any Democrat except Biden” would get a new candidate, and no one looks weak (or at least not any weaker than they do already).

Then when he recovers, after the election, he can be a strong advisor to the new Democratic president.

With no outside context, using just the performances of the two candidates in that debate, one looked less senile than the other. That’s all they’re saying. Doesn’t make the Toupee a good choice, just the less worse one (again, based only on the performance in that debate and ignoring everything else).

Don’t forget the tax penalty that you have to pay if you can’t afford insurance! At least until the Toupee got rid of that, and though it disgusts me to say it is the one good thing that administration did.

Why should they work harder? Every four years they drum up votes by saying they’re not as bad as the Other Guy, and about half the time it works. A large portion, maybe even a majority, of their voters come out of the woodwork around election time to call anyone dissatisfied with the Democratic party a Russian troll or worse, then disappear for the next four years until the next Other Guy needs to be defeated.

The system we have only has one way for the public to express their opinions of politicians: their vote. A vote for a politician, regardless if it’s just a vote against the Other Guy, is taken as approval of that politician and their party. Now we’re stuck between a rock and a hard place of our own making. Fascism on the one hand, fascism delayed by a maximum of four years on the other.

Uninformed ad hominems sure are fun, aren’t they?

When I was younger…

You’re over 250 years old?

From my studying of history American politics have been “us” vs “them” since George Washington stepped down after two terms.

King George approves of your comment.

Saying nothing can be the most powerful thing one can say.

How about normalizing solutions outside a corrupt and ineffective justice system? When the provably, convicted, guilty walk free no matter how dangerous they are, what options are left to us?

Nothing can be a very powerful thing to say. I wish he had said nothing.

In what possible instance would they not be copper colored?

The legacy of the entire Democratic Party is enabling fascism. For at least the last 24 years.

Who’s the bigger fascist, the fascist party or the party who compromises with the fascists?