That was 100% a “whoosh” on my part, had just rolled out of bed and brain wasn’t firing on all cylinders yet.

Look at human history and you will see that every conflict can be settled if you are just willing to use words and nothing else.

An admirable sentiment, but I feel like you and I read very different history books.

Next week: turns out there are more orcas in Louisiana waters than we thought. Who knew?

Killing a shitload of Nazis seemed to help last time.

I love how you dodged more than half of the issues, knowing you didn’t have jack shit.

Hence your substantive engagement on what I did mention?

you love mamdani

Never claimed this.

If they’re all the same

Never claimed this.

You should hate him too, right?

None of this is about hate, it’s about which policy decisions are better than others.

So I guess they’re not all the same and Democrats are, objectively better, is that right?

Again, never claimed.

Everything you’re saying comes across as being less about “how do we improve things” and more “I need someone to be angry at.” I would propose directing that anger at the politicians instead of your fellow voters.

Harris wouldn’t have advocated turning it into a riviera

I’m sure the dead would take great solace that their killer didn’t also have real estate ambitions.

leaving aside the fact that Bibi explicitly wanted

Biden was not known for standing up to Israel, to put it mildly. When Harris was asked what she’d do differently than Biden, her answer was “there is not a thing that comes to mind.” She later amended that to “what’s the difference between Joe Biden and me? … I’m going to have a Republican in my cabinet”.

LGBTQ+ rights

The “T” there being the people the Dems immediately tried to throw under the bus when they lost?

Economic Inequality

I mean, look at all the love and support the party is showing Mamdani after he kicked Cuomo’s ass in the primary 🙄

Look, I get your point, and I voted for Harris (grudgingly), but until we primary enough of these crusty old Republican-lites in party leadership these losses are just going to get worse. They yelled and screamed (rightly) about how Democracy was on the line, and when their option was “save Democracy or move right” they chose the latter.

Respectfully, I don’t see the sense in complaining about “wedge issues” and then turning around and driving wedges between you and other people trying to get the party’s head out of its ass.

So your plan is to give up, or try to change the Democrat party to move further left? A new party couldn’t place a member on the Presidential ballot by 2028. They have to hold positions in multiple states of lower positions to do so, and that would split the possible centrists from the leftists and guarantee another Republican win.

All excellent points against things I didn’t say.

Hating on individual Democrat members who drive the party Congress/Senate to the right makes sense.

There are “individual” members driving the party right in much the same way there are “isolated bad apples” causing the police to abuse their powers. I can count on fingers the number of prominent Congressional Democrats pushing left. Even the party leadership is pushing “right, but slower” instead of left at all.

Hating on the entire party just helps lose support for their party and thereby support the “true” villains as you labeled them.

If someone sees a post online saying “Democrats should do more to fight against Evil Republicans when they eat orphans for fuel” and their takeaway is “But I don’t know which Democrat specifically should have done more! Guess I’m voting for the orphan-eaters. 🤷”… then I would argue the post was not the problem.

Because if the Democrats had done those things, these people would be swinging at the end of ropes right now instead of ripping said copper.

The Republicans have been telling us basically my entire life (and I’m at the “joints no longer work” phase of old) They Were Gonna and the Democrats (who, due to the perverse structure of our government, were the people in the best position to head it off) have Charlie Browned the football that entire time. Are we supposed to just ignore that now that they’ve squandered whatever leverage they might once have had?

I get that the “true” villains are the Republicans, but the number of people left in this country who don’t already know that AND will listen when told is vanishingly small.

If you want to see how your Senators voted on this: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00318.htm#state

I misread that as “state police” and had almost the same thought.

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This feels like an appropriate listen today. Sly & The Family Stone - Que Sera Sera

Are we using the word “family” to mean “piles of random women he solicited to receive his sperm through the mail” now?

You take that back right now.

NA NANANA NANAANANA NA KATAMARI DAMACY

No judgement for liking what you like, but having played it when it first came out I have to admit my first thought was “they couldn’t be arsed to finish the first one and you already want a second?”

In fairness I haven’t gone back through it after my initial playthrough, so maybe it’s better than last I saw it. At the time there were something like 20 skills in the tree that just straight up didn’t do what they were supposed to, half the stuff in the trailers was just made up, and cops could materialize from your ass.

Good job completely missing the point, NPR. For some additional context: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/trump-calls-congress-pass-overbroad-take-it-down-act-so-he-can-use-it-censor

50. Born 1974-05-27.